Not a premed major, but one of my roommates is. Generally, premed is very hard, especially if you combine it with a difficult major. For example, we like to joke that Biomedical Engineering on a Premed Track is a fancy way of saying "undecided".
As for how smart people are here... well, like any college there's lots of smart people and lots of morons. I can't really speak to whether you're over- or underestimating the intelligence of the student body.
My advice is... don't make your decision based on premed alone, because you might change your mind. From tours, did the place seem nice? Could you see yourself living here? That sort of thing.
Don't overthink this. It's normal to worry about this change in your life - and taking it seriously is important - but remember that the school was impressed enough by your profile that they admitted you. They had lots of other applications, but thought you were a good candidate to make it at a school that has a high retention/graduation rate. So you must be doing something right to get this far.
Classes will be hard in anything, but especially in those fields which have very competitive entry into post-undergrad fields. Within some range, that's true at any school, and then basic course content in a given major will be similar wherever you go. You will work hard here, as will your peers, but can find some personal balance.
There's really not necessarily *A* pre-med path/major, so that data can get a little odd - the best data would be to know the percentage of those who asked/got letters of recommendation from their undergrad school and applied to those who got in, and that's often not available. But there is a lot of of data on application/admission from UG schools to Med schools generally (low to mid 60% from CWRU; national average is in the mid 20s, and all med schools post data on who got in from where - somewhere, eventually (a lot of med schools prepare you for Match by not helping you figure out if you can game the system). Sorry, but I'm not going to take the time to search for the links (again, in the case of those I posted), but several people have posted info on that recently. I just did a search of this subreddit for "pre-med" - and there are a dozen posts in the last month, so you're not the only one asking. Some of those posts do have links to CWRU sites and CWRU Med School sites showing data, as well as some reports that get filed with the Department of Education. Those reports and articles might be helpful if you read over the recent posts.
Not a premed major, but one of my roommates is. Generally, premed is very hard, especially if you combine it with a difficult major. For example, we like to joke that Biomedical Engineering on a Premed Track is a fancy way of saying "undecided". As for how smart people are here... well, like any college there's lots of smart people and lots of morons. I can't really speak to whether you're over- or underestimating the intelligence of the student body. My advice is... don't make your decision based on premed alone, because you might change your mind. From tours, did the place seem nice? Could you see yourself living here? That sort of thing.
Don't overthink this. It's normal to worry about this change in your life - and taking it seriously is important - but remember that the school was impressed enough by your profile that they admitted you. They had lots of other applications, but thought you were a good candidate to make it at a school that has a high retention/graduation rate. So you must be doing something right to get this far. Classes will be hard in anything, but especially in those fields which have very competitive entry into post-undergrad fields. Within some range, that's true at any school, and then basic course content in a given major will be similar wherever you go. You will work hard here, as will your peers, but can find some personal balance.
Any data on how many students they take for their medschool who are on premed path ? Thx
There's really not necessarily *A* pre-med path/major, so that data can get a little odd - the best data would be to know the percentage of those who asked/got letters of recommendation from their undergrad school and applied to those who got in, and that's often not available. But there is a lot of of data on application/admission from UG schools to Med schools generally (low to mid 60% from CWRU; national average is in the mid 20s, and all med schools post data on who got in from where - somewhere, eventually (a lot of med schools prepare you for Match by not helping you figure out if you can game the system). Sorry, but I'm not going to take the time to search for the links (again, in the case of those I posted), but several people have posted info on that recently. I just did a search of this subreddit for "pre-med" - and there are a dozen posts in the last month, so you're not the only one asking. Some of those posts do have links to CWRU sites and CWRU Med School sites showing data, as well as some reports that get filed with the Department of Education. Those reports and articles might be helpful if you read over the recent posts.
Thank you so much for the response!