Should I apply for UMich and have a chance for their med school or apply for Medstart which guarantees med school admission but at Wayne?
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Should I apply for UMich and have a chance for their med school or apply for Medstart which guarantees med school admission but at Wayne?
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going to Umich does not give you “a chance at their med school.” You can go to any Mich school and have a chance at the med school at UMich.
Does Medstart prevent you from applying to other med schools?
BTW…all US med schools are excellent. You shouldn’t feel like “but at Wayne”.
You probably should apply to both as well as some other schools and then see where you are accepted. Then you can make a decision based on actual acceptances.
Wayne State is a really good medical school, as is UM. I have a friend who is the director of the emergency medicine residency at a hospital in the Detroit area and she says that area hospitals love to get residents who went to Wayne State because they are very well prepared.
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Wayne State is a really good medical school, as is UM. I have a friend who is the director of the emergency medicine residency at a hospital in the Detroit area and she says that area hospitals love to get residents who went to Wayne State because they are very well prepared.
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Some make the mistake of thinking that the undergrad’s name/prestige is somehow an indication of the quality of the med school…very wrong.
The US has about 140 MD schools…and all are excellent. They have to be. Getting into one of them is a huge achievement. No one is “above” attending any of them.
However, if, like MOST premed freshmen, you end up not going to med school in the end, you’d be better off attending UMichigan than Wayne State for undergrad.
For that matter, any school in US or Canada 
“going to Umich does not give you “a chance at their med school.” You can go to any Mich school and have a chance at the med school at UMich.”
“For that matter, any school in US or Canada”
mom2collegekids and texaspg, University of Michigan Medical School does in fact seem to favor University of Michigan graduates. If you look at the makeup of Michigan Medical School first year classes, you will see that University of Michigan alums are far and away the best represented.
For example for the latest entering class (2015), out of a total of 170 first year medical students, a whopping 55 were University of Michigan graduates. The second most well represented university was Stanford with 6. Duke and Yale were next with 5 each. Harvard, Hope, Oakland and Penn had 4 each.
In the case of the entering class of 2014, out of a total of 177 first year medical students, 48 were University of Michigan graduates. The second most well represented institution was WUSTL with 6. Northwestern was next with 5. Dartmouth, GVSU, Harvard and UC-Berkeley were next with 4 each.
For the entering class of 2013, out of a total of 172 first year medical students, 45 were University of Michigan graduates. The next best represented institutions were Duke and Harvard with 7 each, followed by UC-Berkeley with 6. Northwestern, Penn and WUSTL had 5 each, Kalamazoo and Notre Dame had 4 each and Calvin, Emory, GVSU, Hope, MSU and Tufts had 3 each.
For the entering class if 2012, out of a total of 177 first year medical students, 61 were University of Michigan graduates. Yale was the second best represented with 6. Harvard, Notre Dame and UC-Berkeley were next with 5 each. Hope, Stanford and UNC-Chapel Hill had 4 each. Calvin, Central Michigan, Maryland, Pomona, UM-Dearborn and Wayne State had 3 each.
In total, there are currently 209 (out of approximately 700) University of Michigan graduates enrolled at the University of Michigan Medical School. No other university has more than 20. Among Michigan institutions, Hope and Calvin did better than MSU, which is very poorly represented considering its size. Clearly, the University of Michigan Medical School seems to give preference to University of Michigan graduates.
That being said, there are no guarantees. Just because one graduates from the University of Michigan with a good GPA does not mean admission into the University of Michigan Medical School. All Medical schools are very selective, and getting into any one of them is a privilege.
Another thing to consider, and MYOS aptly pointed it out, many incoming premed freshmen end up changing their minds once at university. In such a case, attending Michigan makes good sense, as it is a highly regarded university with excellent programs and departments across the entire academic spectrum.
http://medicine.umich.edu/medschool/education/md-program/people-places/class-profiles
http://medicine.umich.edu/medschool/education/md-program/people-places/class-profiles/2014
http://medicine.umich.edu/medschool/education/md-program/people-places/class-profiles/2013
http://medicine.umich.edu/medschool/education/md-program/people-places/class-profiles/2012