Lower Ranked LACs for Premed = Negative?

[mom2collegekids]

My daughter went to a top LAC. Her childhood friend went to a LAC most people have never heard but provided great merit aid. Her aim was always Med school. We live in the PNW and one of the best Med schools in the area and probably the country is UW.

My daughter’s friend from her graduating class, also on the Med school track as well as her childhood friend, both applied to UW. Her friend from her graduating class was accepted rather quickly her childhood friend was not.

I will also mention, both are excellent students.

Her childhood friend went on to be accepted at another pretty decent Med school although not as highly ranked as UW. She is somewhere back east now doing her residency.

At the end of the day, both are doctors.

One path was less bumpy, the other took a lot of effort and patience applying to many schools but in the end incurred less debt.

What? Didn’t they both apply to a number of schools?

It sounds like the one who went to the LAC with merit ended up with less debt. Is that what happened?

What was each applicant’s home state? Which LAC and which med school did that other friend end up attending?

One can’t conclude anything from the above. We don’t know their cum/science GPAs, we don’t know their MCAT scores or MCAT breakdown, we don’t know when each submitted their apps/secondaries, we don’t know their ECs, community involvement, how well they write, etc. I highly doubt that the friend’s lesser known LAC played any part in anything.

And UWash Med receives over 9000 apps and can only seat 271. And it’s heavy female, so that comes into play as well. Surely, of the 8000 or so rejected applicants, many were stellar applicants from top schools.