<p>I will be attending Vanderbilt in the fall, and although I am very excited, I can't help but think that I screwed myself over because I won't be attending a top tier school, such as HYP or Duke, the school I applied Early Decision to. I have very ambitious goals in my life. I'm doing premed, and I want to go to a TOP medical school. Will I be able to get into a top tier medical school with a Vanderbilt undergraduate education?, or should I be looking into transferring into HYP or a top 10 school?</p>
<p>I think the OP is slightly confused…</p>
<p>In March they wrote a post saying they were a Jr and interested in Duke next year…
In April they wrote a post saying they’d been accepted to Tufts and Colgate and couldn’t decide…
Now Vanderbilt ED…</p>
<p>Why does my actual situation even matter? Even if I’m asking hypothetical questions, the point of this forum is to give answers to the questions asked, not to investigate one’s actual college plans. Get a life.</p>
<p>Please ignore my original post. I realized it was a pretty stupid question haha. Sorry</p>
<p>LOL @ this thread. If you don’t get into HYP, you’re not even going to get into med school.</p>
<p>I do believe your story. You applied to Duke early decision, got rejected, went regular decision and got in Emory and Tufts while being waitlisted/accepted at Vanderbilt.</p>
<p>I can sense you are going to be one of those students who spends their entire freshman year dreaming about transferring to the top of the Ivy League. Going to Vanderbilt does give you a decent advantage over anyone applying from outside the top 50, but the chances are still very much against you. Even people in the middle to lower Ivies are trying to get into the top 5, but many of them fail in the face of single digit transfer acceptance rates, most of which are 5% or lower.</p>
<p>Your chance of getting into a top medical school (and being competitive for any secure future) depends on your social networking, inherent talent, and hard work. The resources for you to succeed are there at Vanderbilt, as they are at many other universities. The professors at many schools can teach - the problem has to do with students being unable to learn. Any result you get on the MCAT is going to do more with your own motivation and ability, rather than how well your college could have prepared you. The same goes with work experience.</p>
<p>Thus, the question changes: Are you good enough for Vanderbilt?</p>
<p>If you ED’d Duke, transfer out of Vanderbilt immediately, you aren’t welcome here</p>
<p>I agree with all these. XD</p>
<p>Hardvard is the Vanderbilt of the North, fyi.</p>