New College graduates have been admitted to the leading law schools in the country, including the University of California at Berkeley, University of Chicago, Columbia, Georgetown, Harvard, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, Stanford , University of Virginia, and Yale. Graduates have also entered Cornell, University of Florida, Florida State University, Stetson, Syracuse, and many others. It has been said that physicians must be life-long learners because medical knowledge advances so rapidly. And increasingly, we recognize that sound medical practice depends upon understanding of, and empathy with, the whole individual. Medicine is a healing art, not a collection of techniques.
Most students planning medical careers concentrate in one or a combination of the natural sciences.
The natural sciences divisional concentration allows a diversity of studies, and therefore is especially appropriate for medical college preparation. However, in recent years leading medical colleges have expressed interest in applicants who concentrate in the humanities or social sciences while also completing basic natural sciences courses. The New College curriculum, which allows for individualized areas of concentration, provides a means for students to reflect this trend in their plans of study. Thus, the most successful New College students aspiring to medical careers bring to college a strong aptitude for scientific reasoning and a capacity for sustained and disciplined study. They also bring, or develop, an interest in original research and inquiry.