Students in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology achieved a 100% acceptance rate to post-graduate programs in the 2019-2020 academic year, according to a recent article from Stevens. This is substantially higher than the nationwide average acceptance rate of 41%, noted by Stevens.
Many prestigious medical schools and hospitals accepted Stevens students to post-graduate programs, such as dental and optometry programs. Graduate schools that accepted Stevens students include New York University School of Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Drexel University School of Medicine, and Cooper Medical School of Rowan University.
Many undergraduate students at Stevens pursue a pre-medical program, and Stevens has ample resources to assist them on their path to medical school. Some of these resources include the Health Professions Advisory Committee, Health Professions Club, and Alpha Epsilon Delta, the pre-med honor society.
Stevens alumni played an important role in the post-graduate application process. Many alumni make contact with upperclassmen every year and help them connect to post-graduation opportunities.
Stevens’ proximity to commerce and industry also contributed to the achievements of the biology and chemical biology students. One student highlighted in Stevens’ article, Isabella Biesty ’19, shadowed a local pediatric dentist in Hoboken during her Stevens career and interned at a medical center in New York City during one summer.
Olivia Schrieber ’18 told Stevens, “I originally entered Stevens as a chemical engineering student, but quickly realized that my mind was not wired as an engineer’s is … And so, I made the switch to chemical biology, and I never looked back! I gained such an appreciation for chemistry and biology at the anatomic and microscopic levels, which is so important to a future physician. If you don’t understand what happens on the nanoscale, then it will be difficult to appreciate illness on the human scale.”
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