<p>Hello. I have been reading the posts mostly by sakky and hazmat who have been promoting high gpa and mcats to get into a good med-school. now ill admit. im green with envy of the ivy league but i also don't want to damage my chances of getting into a med school. im pretty sure ill get into a couple of ivy leagues this year and ive already been accepted to u of chicago, michigan, ohio state, and bard college but i also applied to cornell. he told me that the gpa would not be as much of a hindrance if you get graduate from a well-respected university like the ivy league as long as the gpa was at least a 3.4-3.5 or above and you had solid mcats. Now i would like to know if i went to schools such as vanderbilt, williams, amherst, osu, michigan, or even bard college, would my chances from getting into a top 5 med school be hindered. take for example bard college. lets say i graduated from there with a 3.8 gpa and 35 mcat. would my chances be the same of those with slighlty less stats of say the ivy league or a top 15 institution. And could this same logic of bard college be applied to osu, williams, and amherst. thanks</p>
<p>Er, why do you need to go to a top 5 medical school? Any med-school should be fine.</p>
<p>im primarily going to research medicine. if i was going into primary care, then the med school doesn't really matter. i couldve gone to neoucom close by my home.</p>
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im primarily going to research medicine. if i was going into primary care, then the med school doesn't really matter. i couldve gone to neoucom close by my home.
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<p>Yeah, if you could have gotten in, which is far from assured. Nobody should ever assume that they are going to get into any med-school at all. Look at the odds - about 35,000 people apply to US med-schools every year, for 17,000 available spots. Do the math. It's a game of musical chairs where over half of the applicants won't have a seat when the music stops. Keep in mind that figures in only those people who actually apply. Plenty of people don't even apply because they know they won't get in (i.e. because their grades/MCAT scores are too low). Hence, I think anybody who gets in anywhere should be happy with what they got, as there are a lot of people who only wish they could get in somewhere, anywhere.</p>
<p>If you really want to be doing research medicine, then you should be going for an MD/PhD. Of the 120 medical schools in the country about 100 of them, including most no-name ones, run such programs. </p>
<p>However, as far as the answer to your question is concerned, if you can get high grades and high MCAT scores, then you will be fully competitive to get into any medical school.</p>