@goldmidnight7 Below is some helpful information for you to consider as an aspiring premed student. I am glad to see that you are utilizing previous poster’s comment for assistance in why to select Baylor v. eliminating Miami. I know several practicing medical doctors who happily completed their undergraduate degrees at Miami. With additional medical school costs looming ahead of you, finding a great match for yourself at a lower cost among all of your potential options is worth considering.
thecooleststudent;d-2150621:
Hi. Im trying to find a reliable source that provides more information about what undergraduate schools students who were selected into the top medical schools came from (aka, their alma maters). This will help me to try and find good pre-med undergrad schools to apply to.
also, if you know of any good premed colleges with small class sizes, moderate grade inflation, and set in an urban area (within the US), please let me know.
Thank you.
There is no reliable source for this info. You could try googling " name of medical school + class profile" for a specific school to see if the school lists the alma maters of their matriculating students. But I doubt you’ll find the information you’re looking for. Med schools accept students from a very wide range of undergraduate institutions.–from elite private schools to directional state Us to I-never-heard-of-it LACs. And the exact schools vary from year-to-year.
BTW, the idea of “top medical schools” is misleading. Medical education is quite different from undergrad education. US medical education is flat. Educational content is highly regulated and standardized (IOW, all med schools teach exactly the same things) and all US medical students take the same national, standardized exams. (USMLE exams) They only people who care about USNews med school rankings are naive pre-meds and Med School Deans. A medical graduate from any US medical school can match into any specialty at any residency program. (And it’s where you do your residency that’s important–not where you go to med school.)
Just about any accredited US or Canadian college or university can be a “good pre-med school.” Med school admission offices place very little weight on the name of the undergrad an applicant attends. Admission is much more dependent on your accomplishments during college: your GPA, your MCAT scores, the depth and quality of your ECs, the strength of your LORs from your college professors, how well your education & experiences demonstrate that you meet the [core competencies](The Premed Competencies for Entering Medical Students ) for incoming medical students, how well you present yourself both in person and in your writings, as well as other “soft” factors.
A good pre-med program should meet 3 criteria, IMO–
it should offer you a varieties of opportunities --including the opportunity to prepare for a Plan B career since over 60% of med school applicants fail to get a single med school acceptance.
it should not cause you or your parent to go into debt to pay for it. Med school is hideously expensive and there is very little FA other than loans, loans and more loans. Pre-med are strongly advised to minimize their undergrad educational debt.
It should be a good fit, academically and socially, since there is objective data that happier students are more successful academically.
Nice pluses for an undergrad–
I would suggest you start by investigating your in-state public universities.