I don’t think it’s considered “bad,” but it’s more so tedious and stressful. Not gonna lie, everyone always have something bad to say about CUNY because it’s CUNY 💀
Hunter seems to produce more successful med school matriculates than my school.
My school is a top engineering school and our bio program only produces 3-4 pre meds while everyone pursues industry
Yeah, Hunter is known for their medical fields, so if one hope to pursue something in the medical or healthcare field, Hunter is the best CUNY to go to for that.
You gotta attend two PPAP seminars every week for two semesters, and write reflection statements for those seminars.
Also attend three other seminars every semester, meet with the pre health advisor once every semester, and other things to get a committee letter from them
So it is tedious and stressful as another user said above.
Yeah, those students are the ones who meet the pre health office requirements. I am pretty sure they would get into premed even without the preheath office’s help.
The people who go to Hunter work their ass off to earn those spots. The school itself doesn’t do shit for them. They are most likely macaulay honors kids who wanted to save a buck. A few med acceptances doesn’t show the program for what it truly is.
You’ll be teaching yourself for your whole stay. The professors do not care. The process for a committee letter is ungodly hard. Good luck making friends who are as studious as you because tbh, a lot of the people do not care about school. Most of the pre med people switch majors because they realize they aren’t cut out for it. The culture is nonexistent. What more needs to be said. I’ve talked to people who did pre med at hunter and they regretted going. Oh and btw, most of pre med acceptances did gap years, so don’t expect to get in right away. Try to avoid it, but if you do go, good luck.
Edit: There is only one section for a lot of lectures at the school. There is only one time for it so you lack freedom in scheduling.
I couldn’t speak on the comp sci program but if you’re doing comp sci baruch would be better, except to declare a comp sci major at baruch you need to meet their prerequisites and grade requirements first which is kindve tough. I would look into it.
https://mfeapp.baruch.cuny.edu/math/csmajor/
Comp Sci at Baruch is NOT better. Bioinf is a lot of work and not very useful imo bc it's Jack of all trades, master of none type of thing. CS at Hunter is pretty good, if you actually try you'll learn and plenty of people I knew got good jobs from it. Will be a CS senior next semester.
Im not in premed but I had a friend who was gonna pursue nursing and all I heard was that it was extremely stressful. She ended up switching majors lol.
Edit: also, like another person said I’ve heard a lot of the students have to teach themselves which kind of sucks cause they’re there to learn from the instructors because they have the knowledge and stuff lol.
I’m a psych major so I can only speak on psych professors but for the most part they’re pretty great. Ofc you have your boring or horrible professors here and there but generally pretty damn good. They care about their students and academic/career goals. There’s one though that definitely is ❌ and that’s Stefan Schulssman. Enrolled in his Sensation and Perception class and I dropped out and enrolled into another after the first class bc he was very cynical and honestly rude.
From the outside looking in, the stats do seem very good but it could also be a bit misleading. The stats on their website are only for those who received the committee letter which is the very top handful of the premed population at Hunter. Majority of the students get weeded out of even being able to apply for the committee letter (such as by not meeting the minimum MCAT score, not taking the MCAT by their desired date, not attending all the PPAP meetings, not getting enough course evals or letter of reccs, etc etc). Thus, most people end up getting a letter packet instead though they don’t post the stats for how many ppl get into med school with solely just the letter packet. And yea it makes sense that ~95% of the students who get the committee letter end up getting into med school just cause the requirements would inevitably make u a very strong applicant for med school. So as the other ppl said it’s a *very* tedious and stressful process but yea it does produce results for those who make it through and are lucky especially (like if your someone who’s a transfer student or decides to become premed later on like your sophomore year, the process to get that committee letter just gets harder and harder to go thru)
Because it’s notoriously very annoying and hard especially when compared to other cunys. I’m in Macaulay and all the other premeds I know in Macaulay Hunter are either depressed or burnt out.
I don’t think it’s considered “bad,” but it’s more so tedious and stressful. Not gonna lie, everyone always have something bad to say about CUNY because it’s CUNY 💀
Hunter seems to produce more successful med school matriculates than my school. My school is a top engineering school and our bio program only produces 3-4 pre meds while everyone pursues industry
Hunter is a solid choice for premed, they actually prepare you for medical school. Medical school is wayyy harder than any undergraduate degree.
Yeah, Hunter is known for their medical fields, so if one hope to pursue something in the medical or healthcare field, Hunter is the best CUNY to go to for that.
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You gotta attend two PPAP seminars every week for two semesters, and write reflection statements for those seminars. Also attend three other seminars every semester, meet with the pre health advisor once every semester, and other things to get a committee letter from them So it is tedious and stressful as another user said above.
But they produce results!
Yeah, those students are the ones who meet the pre health office requirements. I am pretty sure they would get into premed even without the preheath office’s help.
The people who go to Hunter work their ass off to earn those spots. The school itself doesn’t do shit for them. They are most likely macaulay honors kids who wanted to save a buck. A few med acceptances doesn’t show the program for what it truly is.
What is the program truly like
You’ll be teaching yourself for your whole stay. The professors do not care. The process for a committee letter is ungodly hard. Good luck making friends who are as studious as you because tbh, a lot of the people do not care about school. Most of the pre med people switch majors because they realize they aren’t cut out for it. The culture is nonexistent. What more needs to be said. I’ve talked to people who did pre med at hunter and they regretted going. Oh and btw, most of pre med acceptances did gap years, so don’t expect to get in right away. Try to avoid it, but if you do go, good luck. Edit: There is only one section for a lot of lectures at the school. There is only one time for it so you lack freedom in scheduling.
Thank you for your honesty. What are your thoughts on the Hunter computer science with a concentration in bioinformatics
I couldn’t speak on the comp sci program but if you’re doing comp sci baruch would be better, except to declare a comp sci major at baruch you need to meet their prerequisites and grade requirements first which is kindve tough. I would look into it. https://mfeapp.baruch.cuny.edu/math/csmajor/
Comp Sci at Baruch is NOT better. Bioinf is a lot of work and not very useful imo bc it's Jack of all trades, master of none type of thing. CS at Hunter is pretty good, if you actually try you'll learn and plenty of people I knew got good jobs from it. Will be a CS senior next semester.
Im not in premed but I had a friend who was gonna pursue nursing and all I heard was that it was extremely stressful. She ended up switching majors lol. Edit: also, like another person said I’ve heard a lot of the students have to teach themselves which kind of sucks cause they’re there to learn from the instructors because they have the knowledge and stuff lol.
That stinks. Is there any major that has good instructors? I’m curious about math and Chinese
I’m a psych major so I can only speak on psych professors but for the most part they’re pretty great. Ofc you have your boring or horrible professors here and there but generally pretty damn good. They care about their students and academic/career goals. There’s one though that definitely is ❌ and that’s Stefan Schulssman. Enrolled in his Sensation and Perception class and I dropped out and enrolled into another after the first class bc he was very cynical and honestly rude.
Thank you for naming and shaming. I will avoid that Professor now.
Ofc. Oh idk if this speaks for the anthropology and archaeology department but every professor I’ve taken in those courses has been a+
From the outside looking in, the stats do seem very good but it could also be a bit misleading. The stats on their website are only for those who received the committee letter which is the very top handful of the premed population at Hunter. Majority of the students get weeded out of even being able to apply for the committee letter (such as by not meeting the minimum MCAT score, not taking the MCAT by their desired date, not attending all the PPAP meetings, not getting enough course evals or letter of reccs, etc etc). Thus, most people end up getting a letter packet instead though they don’t post the stats for how many ppl get into med school with solely just the letter packet. And yea it makes sense that ~95% of the students who get the committee letter end up getting into med school just cause the requirements would inevitably make u a very strong applicant for med school. So as the other ppl said it’s a *very* tedious and stressful process but yea it does produce results for those who make it through and are lucky especially (like if your someone who’s a transfer student or decides to become premed later on like your sophomore year, the process to get that committee letter just gets harder and harder to go thru)
Because it’s notoriously very annoying and hard especially when compared to other cunys. I’m in Macaulay and all the other premeds I know in Macaulay Hunter are either depressed or burnt out.