<p>According to Medical</a> School: Advice on Medical Careers and on becoming a Doctor for High School Students,
some medical schools give preference to the undergrads of the same school
For example, BU Med school might give preference to BU undergrads when considering applications.
Is this true? Is it just one of those rumors/myths?
What are you opinions on this?
As a future pre-med student (fall 2010), I would like to take this into consideration if it's true when choosing my school.
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<p>Its true, but mostly because of the fact that going to a medical school’s university gives you the opportunity to build relations and do activities that are well known to the adcom. It also gives you time to build up a relationship with the medical school, do research, get Letters of Rec, etc. If you don’t do any of this and your letters of rec are from people completely unknown to the adcom, the benefit is probably significantly diminished. I wouldn’t count on it though, medical school universities tend to have an abundant pre-med population. So even if they take 10 instead of 5 from your school, you are still competing with potentially hundreds that are doing the same thing you are.</p>
<p>It’s not necessarily true if you are attending an OOS public school. In many cases Med schools affiliated with public universities see as their mission to provide an education to health care professionals who plan to care for the residents of their own state. In those cases, even if you were an undergrad there you’re chances are diminished because the percentage of OOS undergrads they admit is often the smallest segment of those admitted. You often can fare better applying OOS from another school.</p>
<p>For that reason I don’t recommend going to an OOS public with the intention of it giving you an admission boost to their Med school.</p>
<p>@mmmcdowe, do some medical schools tend to accept more of their undergrads, regardless of the relationships you build. In other words, do some medical school WANT to take more of their undergrads, as in it is part of their policy to do so?</p>
<p>I am just curious, because my college’s medical school tends to take A HUGE AMOUNT of kids from my undergrad college.</p>
<p>Probably, but there are also self selecting factors that make it hard to gauge. For example, pretty much every applicant is going to apply to his or her own school. Further, they might be more inclined to stay because they have developed roots, like the area, or for whatever reasons they chose that school for undergrad.</p>
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<p>For some reason that gave me a good laugh. Perhaps it’s because the reason I chose my school for undergrad was because it was completely different from what I was used to and a huge change of location/pace. As such, I won’t be applying there for med school.</p>
<p>Atar, do you go to Yale or Duke?</p>
<p>Colleges, check the state residency of the admitted Emory students. When I went to Emory a large percentage of the admitted Emory College students were from GA. Even many private schools will "reserve "a percentage of their slots for in state residents.</p>
<p>This is definitely not the case with University of Pitt. With the exception of those admitted under their GAP, they accept very few from their own ranks. You need to check each school’s track record.</p>
<p>There is no solid data that indicates med schools give preference or do not give preference to their own undergrads. Yes, every medical school will have an overrepresentation from its undergrad but that could simply be due to the excessive number of applications it receives from its undergraduates. For example, most of the top applicants from Cornell will apply to Weill-Cornell for med school. But, the majority of them probably won’t apply to UPitt Med (an equivalent med school).</p>
<p>Your odds of getting into any individual med school is so low anyway that you should never ever pick an undergrad based on the fact you would like to attend the affiliated med school.</p>
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<p>Nope. Although good guesses since I am definitely not applying to Yale; Duke is still up in the air at this point. Wanna take another stab at it? 
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<p>Nah, just wondering because Yalies and Dukies seem to be the ones most unlikely to apply to their own medical schools.</p>
<p>^^ Why is that? Both are AMAZING med schools. Locations are nice as well.</p>
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<p>Durham and New Haven…really?</p>
<p>Because a lot of people 8 years in either of those cities is a bit stifling.</p>
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<p>You’ve obviously never been to Durham or New Haven ;)</p>
<p>Outside of Duke, Durham is an awful place…it is the gang capital of North Carolina and not a place you want to be after dark. Duke students (undergrad, grad and professional) all head to Franklin St in Chapel Hill when they want to do anything other than on campus activities. </p>
<p>New Haven…well, let’s just say that it isn’t Princeton and leave it at that…great school but not a place to be for 8 years unless you have to.</p>
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<p>…you get accepted into Yale Law School (but then it’s only 7 years). :D</p>
<p>On a side note, don’t be swayed by medical student arguments that the big cities are only a few hours away and its totally possible to go and visit them and all if their school’s area sucks. That’s like me saying skiing is only two hours away, you could ski every weekend if you want! No medical student is going to go through the hassle of traveling that much often. It just isn’t terribly feasible.</p>
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<p>well never mind about duke, I guess the location of yale might get really boring, but I don’t think its any different from other colleges. </p>
<p>The only place I wouldn’t mind living for 8 years is NYC !!! =), such a fun city.</p>
<p>Well, it’s all in what your expecting from the town. For my D everything is more urban than our ranch and very few places have ses demo’s any worse than Memphis. New Haven is a walk in the park. Safety is a real concern in her med school location choices. Other than that, not so much.</p>
<p>She finds plenty to do in Memphis and realizes she’ll have less even free time in Med School.</p>