Does your place of college undergrad matter?

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>Ok so i am currently in high school. I am choosing to stay in state because it will be cheaper for me.Of course this limits the number of colleges i have a choice at attending. I was thinking of going to the University of West Georgia or Georgia Southern. I was wondering do medical schools really care where you attended for your undergrad as long as it's a 4 year accredited university? Do they look down upon it? And also say i go to a university who has a medical school , if I apply there are my chances higher?</p>

<p>Thank you :)</p>

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<p>Usually it does if you plan on going to graduate school/medical school. Why not UGA or Georgia Tech?</p>

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<p>^sorry but that’s not true. Grad schools only look at specific exam scores (MCAT, LSAT, etc) and GPA. They care very little about the undergrad school</p>

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<p>i don’t want to attend a large university and i don’t think my gpa (3.4) unweighted is high enough.</p>

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<p>it matters to a certain extent.</p>

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<p>But not enough to base your next four years on. Go where you are going to happiest and thus most productive.</p>

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<p>Undergrad school is immaterial–GPA, MCATS, significant research<—that is what matters.</p>

<p>(Harvard Medical School, Class of '89)</p>

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<p>Just google it. Google all the advice about getting into med school. I saw this: a C at Harvard won’t be excused because it’s Harvard. They’re looking for performance, even if it’s at a community college.</p>

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<p>Most medical schools don’t care what undergrad you went to as long as you took required courses, are interesting and did well on MCATs</p>

<p>Some of the “academic” schools (Hopkins, Yale, Stanford, Harvard) do care. </p>

<p>Don’t do “premed” major. Do do what you are interested in and the required courses.</p>

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<p>Use search function? Or read the threads at the top of the forum.</p>

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<p>My advice would be not to focuse on choosing UG, but make a goal and develop a plan for getting higher college GPA than your HS GPA at any place that you choose to go. It looks to me like priority #1 in achieving your goal. Choosing UG I would estimate as priority #10.</p>