<p>Be a top student at a good state university, and you’ll have more research opportunities, more internships, more mentoring than if you are a middling student at a top private. And you’ll save tens of thousands of dollars for med school, which you are going to need.</p>
<p>Most of those med school admissions percentages you read about it are absolutely irrelevant. What you want to know, and what no school will give you, is the percentage of students who enter thinking they want to be pre-med who actually end up in med school. Sure, some students decide it really isn’t for them, but the vast majority are just weeded out in the process. My alma mater, a top LAC and rival to Amherst, claims 90% admissions - but the reality is that, given the weed out, the real number is closer to 25-30%.</p>