<p>If I want to aim for Harvard Medical School
Does it matter which undergraduate school I go to?
(assume that I get high GPA)</p>
<p>No. It matters that you do well. AFAIK, where you went is secondary.</p>
<p>what's AFAIK?
and
What's benefit of going to competitive undergraduate school, for students who want to become doctors?</p>
<p>as far as I know.</p>
<p>As long as you have wonderful grades and fabulous test scores/recs, then where you went to undergrad won't matter.</p>
<p>Well, I think that's taking it a bit far. For example, who is more likely to be accepted: a 4.0 student from Cal State Humboldt or a 4.0 student from Berkeley?</p>
<p>For the most part, undergrad doesn't matter. However, name can carry some weight in grad school admissions.</p>
<p>Well for comparative purposes, yes, however, if you pull a 4.0 at a decent-but-not-spectacular school (a la Cal spectacular), you can certainly get in.</p>
<p>It also depends on the medical school. Some are much more selective than others. Harvard's, obviously, is pretty selective, so there is probably a higher concentration of decent/spectacular-school grads there.</p>