Future Doctors Of The World, I Need Your Help

[clex_monkie89]

Say that Sam wanted to be Pre-Med instead of the fake Pre-Law that Stanford doesn't have.

What would be the best undergrad and medical schools for him to go to?

Comments

[dhrachth]

My alma mater University of South Alabama had one of the best cardiac (I think) research dept. in the country when I was attending 10 years ago. (I was in the philosophy dept. so I'm pretty fuzzy on the details. I just know kids enrolled from all over the world, including ones that at least claimed they got offers to ivy league schools.) And, as a state school it's a lot more believable Sam got a full ride. Ivy league has a better sound to it, but isn't all that plausible.

You could check out US News' list. You could probably find a likely candidate for any part of the country you wanted to write about.
http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-medical-schools

[ethrosdemon]

Johns Hopkins

[clex_monkie89]

Oh, man. You know, that should have been obvious. I'm gonna blame the late hour on Johns Hopkins never having even entered my mind.

[setissma]

The general idea these days is that it's typically a pretty bad idea to major in premed. (Most schools are phasing that out.) Instead, you take a pre-med curriculum in addition to your major requirements - so a year of biology, a year of english, a year of general chemistry, a year of orgo, a year of physics, and at least a semester of calculus

[setissma]

I agree that Stanford could have paid Sam's full tuition, but there actually is a distinction in what it's called; "full ride" colloquially implies a full merit scholarship, whereas "full financial aid" is what it's called when a school is paying your way on need based aid, which is what Stanford's policy does. I know it seems nitpicky, but there's actually a big difference, because it implies a major difference in how schools distribute aid.

[mirrorskippy]

For med schools: JHU, Harvard Med, UCLA, Yale. All the ones you'd expect. I think of Hopkins and UCLA as more research oriented than the others (though that could just be me).