Do Med schools look at where you go to school?

College Search & Selection
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<p>Just wondering because I know schools like Caltech/MIT/Chicago grade really hard so is it easier to get into med school from an ivy that has more grade inflation?</p>

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<p>They take it into consideration, although hardly. MIT and Caltech (don't know about Chicago), have lower acceptance rates to medical school than the Ivies, probably because of grade deflation. I wouldn't go to either of those two if you want to go on to medical school. Of course, you can go to either and still get into great med schools, but you may need to work harder to get the good grades that make you competitive for med school.</p>

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<p>This has been asked and answered many times on the PreMed Topics forum. Go there and do a Search and read the Sticky threads at the top for excellent information from current med students.</p>

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<p>If you look at the med school stats for MIT, a person with a 2.5/4.0 was accepted to med school. So, I guess in some sense they do. But who knows, this person could have been a URM or something. Chances are if you get a bad GPA at any school, your likeliness of getting into med school goes down as well.</p>

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<p>That person's parent was probably on the medical school's admissions committee.</p>

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<p>Well. </p>

<p>If you KNEW ANYTHING about MIT....They grade on a 5.0 scale...so you are wrong yet again Brown man.</p>

<p>I mean who would choose either of those schools for premed. It boggles my mind to see the strengths of those schools go to waste to be premeds. As a premed, you quite literally take courses to play the admissions game, fit whatever courses to your schedule to maximize your gains, and you don't learn anything. Which is why if you get into MIT, you want to learn as much as possible. As a premed, you can't get that same quality education, because its not like your learning for the sake of learning. Your learning to outcompete your peers. Which is why I think being premed really sucks.</p>

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As a premed, you quite literally take courses to play the admissions game, fit whatever courses to your schedule to maximize your gains, and you don't learn anything. Which is why if you get into MIT, you want to learn as much as possible. As a premed, you can't get that same quality education, because its not like your learning for the sake of learning. Your learning to outcompete your peers. Which is why I think being premed really sucks.

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<p>amen. heed his words all you pre-premed'ders.</p>

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If you KNEW ANYTHING about MIT....They grade on a 5.0 scale...so you are wrong yet again Brown man.

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Right, but the MIT premed statistics (here</a>) are converted to the 4.0 AMCAS scale.</p>

<p>I'm not the biggest fan of premeds (I'm a biology PhD student -- it's an occupational hazard), but don't forget that playing the admissions game, memorizing rather than learning, and choosing courses based on the odds you'll get an A isn't the only strategy a premed can take. It's actually the course a dumb premed has to take -- the really brilliant ones, which you do find at MIT, are able to get fabulous grades while learning deeply, doing research they care about, and taking difficult, interesting courses. It doesn't have to be an either/or choice if you're smart enough.</p>

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<p>ooooh. somebody got owned by brown man.... and he was right. there's a kid with 2.4/4.0 who got into a med school</p>

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<p>When my husband was in medical school, the undergrads ranged from top 20 schools like our own, to small LAC's, to well regarded state flagships, to moderately regarded state flagships. Medicine is a unique field in that it really doesn't matter -- med school serves as a leveler, and residency does as well. Unless you plan a career in academic medicine, it doesn't really matter where you go to med school, or where you go to undergrad for that matter.</p>

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<p>Dont lump all us premeds together. I dont care if my peers are better than I dont care what med school i get into as long as i get into one. I love to learn I love the humanities and sciences and recently i have been learning about the world of finance just because it is new to me and i am unfamiliar with it. Now will this love of learning put at disadvantage, probably. But I realize that and will compensate for it not sacrifice it.</p>

<p>So my main point not all us premeds (or future premeds in my case) are not all of us fit that stereotype. Also just to clear up this possible thought. If this desire to learn makes you think i will fail as a premed your wrong there.</p>

<p>thats it</p>

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<p>Phead:
"Well.</p>

<p>If you KNEW ANYTHING about MIT....They grade on a 5.0 scale...so you are wrong yet again Brown man."</p>

<p>You are ignorant.</p>