When Prestige & Pre-Med Don't Mix
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- Опубликовано: 30 ноя 2024
- Many high school students who intend to pursue a pre-medical advising track in college in order to set themselves up for medical school later make a major mistake by only applying to the most prestigious undergraduate institutions. Learn why in this video.
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You make some good points. I got crushed at McGill decades ago, the same scenario you laid out for Hopkins. But the top liberal arts colleges offer another path, rigorous academics with more support. My daughter is thriving as a premed at a little ivie without killing herself.
Which school does your daughter attend?
The problem with this advice is that not all prestige schools are academically rigorous. Sure, doing premed at an academically rigorous school like Princeton, JHU, or UChicago will be very challenging. However, prestigious schools like Stanford, Harvard, Yale, and Brown are known for their grade inflation (average GPA > 3.7). And even the rigorous schools I mentioned earlier like Princeton and JHU still place their students into med school at a much higher rate than average (83% of Princeton students from 2018-2022 got into at least one med school). Lastly, just because a student is only able to get into one prestigious school does not mean they cannot succeed academically at that school. Per Yale's admission website, "we estimate that over three quarters of the students who apply for admission to Yale are qualified to do the work here."
I guess what I'm trying to say is that not all prestigious colleges are the same, and that it's very important to take these differences into account.
Placement rates are often the result of a very deliberate weeding out process at these colleges, and others, and natural sciences classes, particularly pre-med prerequisites, have far less grade inflation than humanities and social sciences classes.
this was my situation. ended up chosing the full ride to state school vs going to "better ranked" school but would have to pay 80k yr
Make a video giving examples of your preferable colleges where one can thrive in pre med school preparing them for med school
Premed at a state school here. I definitely was not conscientious enough to go to one of these prestigious schools but I could have went to a school that averaged around 90+ percentile scores. I do not feel like I made the wrong decision in my situation. I am in 3 research labs, strong connections to hospitals, strong application narrative, strong volunteering, etc. It is what you make out of it. HOWEVER... at the T10 med schools it does seem like they choose from top tier undergraduate universities. It is probably skewed because those students tend to just score higher in general so it may not be the university. Just my thoughts.
Great video!!
Good advice! My kid just face such a situation: Prestige Vs Premed? JHU is his first choice. He is one of the top students at high school and want to go elite schools. like other kids do. Getting into top schools is not easy today. From report, easy to get A s at Ivy schools (e.g. Harvard, Yale )than other schools. Who knows?
Congrats to your son. Undergrad is what you make out of it. He should go where he wants - if he/you are willing to trade the money for the 'prestige' then do it. There are definitely pro's to it.
I will graduate debt free as that was an important value for me. I just did not want undergrad debt accruing for 8 years.