<p>Is it hard to get into medical school from here?</p>
<p>It matters much less WHERE you go to undergrad than WHAT you do once you’re there. (Also, the MCATS are very important).</p>
<p>My daughter is attending SCU and we did tour many of the best private schools in Cali this fall. As a doctor myself, I had to smile when each school trotted out their med school admission stats- from over 90% placement at Pomona to (I think) 50% placement into med school at SCU. Well, I went to a third rate Midwestern school, I’m not even from Cali and ultimately graduated from UCSD’s School of Medicine. So how did that happen? </p>
<p>The key is this- you must bloom where you’re planted. At every decent school there are more opportunities to learn- e.g. honors programs, research jobs, service projects- than there are hours in the day in which to learn it! </p>
<p>I suspect there is a very tight correlation between a college’s admission statistics and its placement rate into med school. In other words, it reflects the quality of the student they managed to attract in the first place, not any magical attribute of, say, Pomona or Stanford. It’s up to you whether you get into med school, any good school will give you the ability to do that.</p>