<p>I was accepted early decision to go to Penn. After that I’m going to go to med school. </p>
<p>Do I have a significant advantage over others to get accepted to the Penn medical school, because I attended undergrad there? Or is it all the same?</p>
<p>Also, do med schools look at the difficulty of coursework you take in college into account when they do admissions, or just your GPA? I’m wondering if I should try to place out of Math 104 or not.</p>
<p>god -_-; it starts all over again...</p>
<p>Could you answer my q if you know the answer? I don't really know what you're talking about.</p>
<p>Word on the street is Penn Med favors Penn undergrads, but I don't actually have proof to back this up because I would have to go to Career Services to look it up. Test out of 104 if you actually want to challenge yourself. If you are only interested in getting a good GPA and couldn't care less about learning I would suggest 104, but be careful of the curve.</p>
<p>Not sure about Penn favoring their own. From a colleague who interviewed this year for med school (I gave up doing this- none of the candidates I liked got accepted)- the Penn students were rather blah. Do well, do something interesting (cure HIV in Africa), do research. It is very easy to find summer research. Penn Med is very research oriented. And Congrats!</p>
<p>Penn Med is one of the few med schools that favors it's undergrads, though very marginally (in many cases, a med school actually looks down upon its own undergrads, it has to do with an administrative philosophy about going out and experiencing different places). Keep in mind that his benefit is very marginal, made negligible by the fact that tons of Penn premeds apply to Penn Med, so you still need obscene numbers to get into the med school. Don't think about med school now, it's an entirely different ball game than applying undergrad, and penciling in Penn Med as where you want to do your med school work is beyond silly.</p>