<p>How much of an advantage (if at all) would you have applying to your ungrad colleges med school in comparison to any other med school?</p>
<p>Depends on the school. Some schools favor their own undergraduates. Some schools do not favor their own students. And some schools (rumor has it) are actually harder to get into from your undergraduate institution than if you were applying from another school. I've wondered if this is because almost all of the pre-meds in your class will almost certainly be applying to the med school associated with your undergraduate school, and so you are competing with all the pre-meds from your school unlike some of the other schools where there will be fewer people applying from your school (I have no idea if that's true or not, but it's one of my thoughts).</p>
<p>Rumor has it that most schools discriminate *against *their own, which is probably not true. My school, for example, is reputed to discriminate against its own and, in point of fact, displays a pretty obvious favoritism for them. I'm sure there are some that punish their own, but I would be hard pressed to be really confident about which ones.</p>
<p>For those schools that do punish their own, GV's analysis is probably spot-on.</p>
<p>The idea is that medical schools want to maintain diversity so they generally don't want 50% of their incoming class to be from their undergrad. So, if you go to a really good undergrad that produces a lot of good premeds (all of whom are applying to the medical school), it might be tough to get into the associated medical scool.</p>
<p>I know for my school, even though it's a public state school and should theoretically favor their undergrads and state residents, that doesn't happen. They like to get students from other universities to diversify the class.</p>
<p>They probably do favor their own state residents.</p>