<p>orangeish, my child loves USC. Move out was today and she was sad.
After two semesters however she burned out of premed. Biology was going okay but chemistry not as much. I haven’t gotten the sense USC is cut-throat competitive as far as the students who are aiming for medical school (unlike UCLA where she also was admitted, and where we heard current students tell us is definitely that way). Premed is a lot of work, and hard, and it only gets harder. There is a lot of support and a dedicated team for prehealth advisement. But as others have said, be prepared to focus on your grades to the exclusion of all else.</p>
<p>Let’s say I end up doing pre med at Tulane or UMiami. Do I still have a shot at going to a top ten medical school? I know Tulane’s medical school isn’t that well-known, so will that hinder my chances?</p>
<p>Med school education in the US is not like undergrad education. It’s flat. All US MD med schools teach the same thing. </p>
<p>Getting accepted to ANY US MD school is a huge achievement. I just went thru the med school app process with my younger son. He was very lucky to get accepted to 3 US MD schools, including his top pick. </p>
<p>There’s really no reason to aim for a top 10 med school unless your goal is academic medicine. That said, a student from any good undergrad can get accepted to a top school. Acceptance to various med schools is mostly about GPA, MCAT, LORs, Reserqch, ECs.</p>
<p>I’ve seen kids from CSUs get accepted to UC San Francisco SOM. I’ve seen kids from ivies only get accepted to one unranked SOM or no SOMs at all.</p>
<p>Undergraduate schools and medical schools are entirely separate entities. The reputation of a university’s medical school has no bearing on your chances when applying to medical school. Acceptance is based on GPA and MCAT scores. There are countless numbers of med students at all levels of schools who did their undergraduate work at community colleges, small liberal arts schools as well as name brand universities.</p>