My daughter is coming out of a competitive high school, top 10% of her class and NHS. She was admitted to Northeastern, Binghamton, Rutgers, and Univ of Miami. Still waiting on UVA and Univ of Pittsburgh. To get into medical school and to be prepared for medical school do any of these schools have an advantage over the others? Does it matter which school she attends? TYIA
What is the cost of each school? All of them are excellent schools and will prepare your daughter for medical school. Admission to medical school requires a high GPA and high MCAT scores. Medical schools are expensive. Which of these schools is the most cost effective for you?
With most Medical school acceptance rates around 3% … (Think about it Stanford UG is 4.6%!) … I would have to say realistically yes to a certain extent it will matter but what matters more I am told is your MCAT score and published research!!!
Go where she will have ample research opportunities
If her goal is getting into med school, your D should go to the school where she can get the highest GPA.
This isn’t entirely true. There are 10 med schools that have acceptance under 4% (and they’re not the ones you’d expect…) See-- [10 Most Competitive Medical Schools](http://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/the-short-list-grad-school/articles/2016-03-17/10-medical-schools-with-the-lowest-acceptance-rates)
The overall acceptance rate for med school applicants is around 40%. See: [Table A-23: MCAT and GPA Grid for Applicants and Acceptees to U.S. Medical Schools, 2013-2014 through 2015-2016 (Aggregated)](https://www.aamc.org/download/321508/data/factstablea23.pdf)
The undergrad your child attends has a minimal effect on whether or not your child will eventually earn an acceptance to medical school. It’s really all on her, not on the school. (I’ve sent 2 kids to med school–one from a state university ranked below USNews 200, and one from a top 30 research U.)
Choose the school that offers her the best combination of fit, opportunity and cost.
(BTW, publications are not at all necessary for a med school admission. In fact, undergrad research experience isn’t even necessary for med school admission. Approx. 15% of matriculating med students last year had zero research experience.)
Keep in mind there is very little FA for med school except loans. If you believe your daughter is serious about med school, you’ll want to minimize the amount of undergrad loans she has to take out.
Also keep in mind that 75% of freshmen pre-meds never get to the point where they actually apply to med school. (And while some of the drop off is due to grade issues, most of is due to a change of interests.)
Here is a helpful article
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I was told that only 40% OVERALL of all the applicants that applied to medical school got in … this leaves 60% of those that apply not able to matriculate to a med school as opposed to per school acceptance rate
You want a school that will allow a high GPA and prepare a student well for the MCAT. All those schools should be fine. At that point you want to keep the UG costs as low as possible since Med School is expensive.