<p>HighHope:</p>
<p>While perhaps you are not ecstatic about your experience at UMKC, you do not know the poster and have no idea on how well (or poorly) s/he would do at Dartmouth or at Northwestern. (Actually, you have no idea on how well YOU would do at either of those colleges, either.) Nor do you know how well (or poorly) s/he tests – perhaps the MCAT will be a killer for him/her, and a really low score would eliminate allopathic medicine.</p>
<p>The brutal facts are that approx. 20-30% of any undergrad population starts as premed Frosh year. Of those, perhaps 20% actually get to the stage of filing applications to med school. Of those, 50% get in. The point is that many, many premeds entering Dartmouth and Northwestern do not make it through the premed gauntlet.</p>
<p>A med school guarantee is worth something. In retrospect, it may not longer be worth it to you…but do not assume that you would achieve the same gpa at NU or D as UMKC.</p>