<p>I am a passionate, hard working person. I have not always been like this, I attended a rather difficult high school and got 3.35 and 3.4 in my Freshman and Sophomore year respectively. Junior and senior year were in the 3.65-3.7 range. My highest ACT score was a 28. The first time I took it in September of my junior year I got a 21, so in a year I raised it 7 points. I played varsity soccer for two years as well as being involved in many clubs around my school. I have always had a full schedule and taken a total of four AP classes (my school only offers nine, many of those I don't have the math or language skills needed to take them). So I applied to many schools and currently I have only gotten into MSU. I was deferred from UofM and UM, all other schools I applied to are much more exclusive than those two. So what I wish to know is with my newfound desire and passion to learn and succeed can I attend MSU get a good GPA start studying for the MCAT as well as do some volunteer work and clubs around campus and have a shot at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, or Hopkins medical school? More importantly, my question is will I be looked down upon four years in the future for attending a State school? Will the students who attended higher ranked Universities be favored for spots in exclusive med schools? Do I still have a chance to attend an Ivy League school?</p>
<p>It is certainly possible. Somebody who works at one of our city’s local hospitals went to MSU for undergrad and then went to Johns Hopkins for Med School.</p>
<p>The college that you go to doesn’t make much of an impact on applications to Med School. Rather, it is important to succeed and use whatever opportunities you can get while at your college of choice. Some Medical schools do favor their own undergrads more (UofM is a prime example), but if you do well in college and on the MCAT you can go almost anywhere. Moreover, the Medical School that you go to doesn’t necessarily need to be a top one unless you’re looking into academic medicine, certain competitive medicine specialties like radiology, or going overseas to work (prestige matters some here).</p>
<p>Otherwise, I believe you can get into MSU and I hope you do well there. :)</p>
<p>Yes. Entirely possible. I personally know people who are at Harvard and Cornell after MSU. None for medical school, but that’s also because I don’t know many premed kids haha. </p>
<p>Just remember that the majority of people that go to college as premed don’t end up going to medical school. It’s great that you’re thinking of this, but it’s just something to keep in mind.</p>
<p>You can definitely go to an ivy league grad school after graduating from MSU. Having a high college GPA/MCAT score matters way more for med school than the name of your school. I also have classmates who have been accepted in Harvard, U Chicago, Brown, Georgetown etc (not in medical fields) for grad/law school.</p>