University of Washington has reputable premed program OPINIONS WANTED

[rebel100]

My suggestion is to find a college with a cadaver lab. This gives your anatomy class an amazing leg-up on the competition. There are not many, but if you can land in one of those colleges, you'll really have a great experience.

Secondly, choose a college that your test scores place you in the top 1/3 of the entering class. If you want to read more about this, check out Malcolm Gladwell's book David and Goliath. Your chances of success are almost always predicted by where you sit on the spectrum of incoming class. In short- don't attend a college where you "just" make the GPA/SAT cut off. Top third all the way.

Since you can go into medical school with any major (pre-med isn't a major, rather it's a set of classes that can fit inside of almost any major) you'll want to choose your passion. It might not be biology, but that's the typical path because it means no extra credit. If you choose a major like business, getting those 8 pre-med courses to fit inside your degree might add a semester or more to your degree, and not everyone is willing to do that.

My other suggestion is to consider that med school will be expensive, so keeping costs down at the undergraduate level means you're ROI happens sooner rather than later. You could either enter your career with a 5 year loan or a 25 year loan - obviously the person with less debt will be making BANK while the other will drag that bag around for most of their career.

Finally, this is a test-out forum, so finding out IF you can test out of your classes is important before you jump in. I'm 100% certain that you can NOT test out of sciences using CLEP. They won't give you grades or labs, both of which you'll need for your medical school application.

Good luck!

This should be framed somewhere.