<p>Do Cornellians get into the top Medical Schools (Harvard, Columbia, Washington), or is it nearly impossible?</p>
<p>no....never, it has never happened in the history of cornell....it almost happened last year but then they didnt wanna break the trend and all top med schools ended up rejecting the applicant even though he had a 3.8 and 41 on the MCATs.</p>
<p>Regardless of what school you go to for undergrad, you have to perform. Your grades, MCAT, volunteering, research, involvement/leadership, and interview must be even better than normal to compete for those schools in particular.</p>
<p>However, you must realize that the difference between the best medical school and the worst medical school is small, the competition to get into ANY medical school is intense, and the "benefit" (and I mean to put air quotes around that) of going to one of these "top" (again with the air quotes) is minimal. </p>
<p>If the difference between the best undergrad was on a scale of 0-100 with 100 being the absolute best school, then the difference between the best and worst medical school (in the US that is accreditted -sp?) on the same scale would be from 75-90. Seriously, the actual information taught is 98% the same, because all schools are teaching to the USMLE Step 1. </p>
<p>Again the competition to get into ANY medical school is intense, with about 50% not getting into any school, with many extremely qualified individuals having to reapply, reevaluate, or give up because they did not get accepted. Most students only get accepted to one school, and there is no such thing as a safety school when applying to medical school. To further ask if people from one particular school get accepted to only a handful of specific schools is to lower the odds even further.</p>
<p>Applying to residencies is far more focused on board scores than grades and even less on school attended because of board scores. </p>
<p>So to answer your question, no it is not impossible to get to one of the "top" schools. The difficulty is in achieveing the proper scores and stats to be competitive. Even then, you shouldn't be overly concerned with getting into certain medical schools, and instead making sure that you get into ANY medical school.</p>
<p>Thank you Shraf for the funniest thing I've seen on these boards yet.</p>
<p>Typical of these liberal institutions. I bet the liberal AAMC - out of protest of Odysseus's criminal behavior in the Trojan War - really dislikes anybody hailing from Ithaca.</p>
<p>^^^^'</p>
<p>And we have a new winner!</p>
<p>What about UC Berkeley? I heard they have even lower med school admission rate.</p>
<p>Again, any school you name is going to have a low placement to the medical schools you listed.</p>
<p>Do not pick a college on the supposed liklihood it gets you into medical school. That's the worst criteria ever.</p>
<p>For Harvard Medical School, can you go to college for 2 years and then take the MCATs and apply and possibly get in?</p>
<p>No (10 char)</p>