Best Midwest Schools if Interested in Pre-Med Program?

Hi! So I am a junior right now looking at colleges. I want to go to a school in either Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, or MAYBE Wisconsin (not any of the Universities of Wisconsin.. Private colleges maybe??). Anyways, I would love to go to medical school after college so I would want to take a Pre-Med program in college. I'm sorry I'm not sure if I am saying this all right... I want to be a pediatrician when I grow up (lol) so I obviously want to go to a school that will help me prepare for this. I'm having a really tough time looking for and finding schools that match what I'm looking for.. This would be what I'm looking for:


-Pre-Med Program, with high rates of graduates going to medical school after college


-Not too expensive... Total, with room and board and books and everything, under 35,000? I don't know what my parents are planning on spending


-Nice and SAFE housing.. not a major party school. Parties are fine but if it is every single night.. no.


-Sororities? I don't know about this yet..


-NOT in the middle of no where!!! I love big cities and I want to have places to go if I have some time!!


-IB credit


-If any religious affiliation, Christian. But it's not preferable.


-Study abroad program


Nice, pretty campus. I love the look of Boston and kind of the gothic look of the buildings!


-Not too hard to get into.. I haven't taken the ACT or SAT yet but I am taking both. My GPA isn't the highest (probably 3.2.. but I'm in IB). I do well on standardized tests.


-Good food (haha!)


-Public or Private I guess. Not a small school though.





I really love Chicago so I would love to go there or Minnesota or Iowa, those are my top places, probably the only places I will go. With the exception of Wisconsin maybe.


Yeah so Pre-Med and just classes I'd need to take to go onto medical school is my number one thing, so just please give me suggestions I can go and research! I don't want a school that has like 1% of their students go on to medical school.. no way. And I can't find any top ones. So PLEASE help!! Thank you!!!!!!|||I hope you learn how to focus before you go to medical school.





Go to the best university that you can get into. Sites like Princeton Review and US News will help you figure out which ones are best.|||University of Wisonson,


UIC,


University of Illiniois (UIUC)


Northwestern Illinois


University of Chicago,


Purdue University


Loyola University


University of Indiana


DePaul University


Ohio State


Iowa University


Michigan State


Michigan University





Boston is not in the midwest region. You should know what kind of school you're going to right now.








A public-school education is provided mainly by local governments, with control and funding coming from three levels: federal, state, and local. Curricula, funding, teaching, and other policies are set through locally elected school boards by jurisdiction over school districts. Private schools are schools not administered by local, state, or national government, which retain the right to select their student body and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition rather than with public (state) funds.|||University of Wisconsin Madison. It is a nationally ranked school with an excellent medical school. At most schools premed is not a major. You major in whatever you want as long as you take the prerequisites needed. Madison has a medical scholars program that if students maintain certain standards through undergrad they are guaranteed admittance to the UW Medical School. This program is very difficult and you have to be asked to apply. None of the private schools in Wisconsin compare to UW Madison. This school is very hard to get into and I am not sure that your GPA is high enough.





All the great schools in the Midwest, University of Chicago, Northwestern, U of I Champagne Urbana are going to require a higher GPA.





No school has a high percentage of their students that go on to medical school. Otherwise there would be more doctors than there currently are. Pre med curriculum is incredibly challenging. Go to a school with good science departments and go from there. Most college freshman come into school as a "pre med" and most don't leave as a future medical student. Start with chemistry and calculus and see if you even like it.