<p>Hey I'm a junior in tucson az and im just looking at potential colleges. im interested in possibly a medical career and i was just wondering what are some good medical colleges are.</p>
<p>Undergrad isn't too important
for Med School, you have your usualy suspects: Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Wash U in St. Louis, UPenn, etc.</p>
<p>Any medical school is good. Your focus during undergrad should be on putting together a resume that will make you competitive to get in somewhere, and if you happen to be good enough for the "top" schools, then so be it. But remember that more than 1/2 of the people who apply to medical school get rejected by every school they apply to, and most people only get one acceptance when they are accepted.</p>
<p>BDM,
It would be good to find out some stats on % of kids accepted at Harvard, Yale, JHU, or Northwestern Med schools who graduated from no-name podunk colleges.</p>
<p>Would this kind of data be available? Mdapplicant.com seems to focus primarily on Ivy grads.....not much data there on kids from no-name schools. Where could we find this data? </p>
<p>There have got to be brilliant kids in no-name schools too. Not everyone has the money to attend Ivys. Is the Med School system always working against these middle class bright kids?</p>
<p>1.) What a weird selection of four medical schools.</p>
<p>2.) I've never seen any such data.</p>
<p>3.) It's not always a question of being middle-class. Prestigious schools often have pretty stellar financial aid programs.</p>
<p>4.) If you don't have the money to attend an Ivy undergrad, why would you have the money for a private medical school?</p>
<p>I suppose one could work between Med School and undergrad and save up $$ for Grad school.</p>
<p>I agree that MDapplicant.com is populated mostly by kids with stellar stats. Therefore, you can't get an idea about how many kids from non-prestigeous schools get acceped in top tier med schools.</p>
<p>It's possible that more complete stats are available to applicants who are accepted at top tier med schools. Might be worth networking to find more complete data.</p>