<p>Do you have even a slightly higher chance of getting accepted to a college's medical program if you also did your pre-med there (considering, of course, that you did well)?</p>
<p>yup u do slight advantage</p>
<p>It depends on the school. Some might put you at a disadvantage.</p>
<p>why is that so bluedevilmike??
everywhere i heard its only an advantage</p>
<p>Think about it. Duke has 90 spots in its medical school and 300 premeds. Those premeds are all disproportionately going to apply to Duke, and they're disproportionately going to choose Duke if they get in. If Duke unequivocally gave their students an advantage during the admissions process, too, then their student body would be overwhelmingly Duke-composed. That's not good for the students and it's not good for the school.</p>
<p>As it turns out, Duke undergrads do seem to have some advantages during the admissions process. And the class is about 20% from Duke undergrad, which is one of the major reasons I was very hesitant to go there.</p>
<p>I haven't seen evidence that goes either way but I will say that I don't know a single Cornell undergrad who got into Weill for med school. One of my friends got interviews at Harvard and Upenn but not Weill. And the other had close to a 4.0 in Cornell engineering and a 40+ MCAT and didn't get in either and those are pretty much the top two Cornell applicants I know. The dean of admissions says they "love" Cornell undergrads but we'll put that to the test this upcoming application cycle.</p>
<p>There are some schools that do put alot of favoritism towards their own undergrads though - Creighton for example loves their undergrads. But the bottom line is you shouldn't pick an undergrad based solely on this fact.</p>
<p>thanks! that does really help. i had never thought of it like that. hearing that, say you got into UP undergrad, and applied to Harvard for pre-med. Would your chances be greater than going to, say, a decent state school (or even something like University of Michigan) and applying to Harvard med then?</p>
<p>thanks for the link!</p>