what school is right for you?

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Originally Posted by piscesbabi09

thanx for everyones advice...i want to be a surgeon( not sure which kind just yet)..but i also like to draw..any one know any good med schools and art schools?

A major that combines your two interests would be medical illustratration. The artists that specialize in this field are the ones that draw the anatomical depictions in JAMA, medical textbooks, etc. Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and the Medical College of GA are two schools that offer that program.

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thanx...what school do you go to and how do you like the atmosphere?

Back in the days of the dinosaur, I chose Carnegie Mellon for its research reputation, its small size (for a university), its Nobel Prize winners in the field that I wanted to major. My H chose West Point because he wanted to serve his country, he wanted to compete in his sport at a D1 level, he was the 2nd of 5 stairstep kids and didn't want to unduly burden his parents. More recently, our D chose a tiny southern LAC because it has a fantastic alumni network, she really wanted professors teaching her classes instead of large lecture halls and foreign TA's (a major complaint of research U undergrads), it is top in her intended field of study.

And just as a point to the importance of individual "fit" , one of my siblings went to UVM and loved it. A couple of my extended family relatives went to UMass and loved it. More importantly, they were able to find a great job or great PhD program as follow-up. However, my sibs and I would have had a horrible time at ZooMass. For us, it was just too big and too wild.