From personal experience, does Vanderbilt prepare you well to gain admission into top medical schools? Thank you, and I appreciate your input! 
I think the link below will give better information than anecdotal evidence. Also, note that really no particular school can “prepare you well” to gain admissions to top medical schools (some can provide a solid curriculum which will make prepping for the MCAT easier). It is very random (beyond the interview offer) except for schools whose reputations are already really insane. There are schools like WashU that produce students with unusually high MCAT scores (32-34- Their courses are VERY rigorous at a level that goes beyond grading practices, but it seems their pre-meds pay for it in terms of the GPA penalty. WashU is just pretty rough for science though there are some tougher places…it is definitely up there), but I don’t think it necessarily impacts how many of them get into top medical schools as a strong GPA (3.75+) and high MCAT (I would say 33-34+) will likely get you interviews at top schools but that is all. To increase your chances of being favored more if you do well in the interview, having a Goldwater, stand-out EC experiences, or other major awards helps (note that I’ve seen Phi Beta Kappa have no impact whatsoever as high GPA’s and PBK are a dime a dozen to like every top 30-40 medical school).
More about academic strength (as demonstrated by grades, MCAT, and other accolades) and depth of involvement in something which is up to you. Some schools like Harvard and Stanford now make it extremely hard because they’ve changed their pre-reqs to be more competency based meaning that making A’s in the standard pre-med core just makes it harder to gain admission (even if they grant an interview). They now tend to bias toward those who take upperlevel maths (as in strong quantitatively or computationally- One friend who got in for MD this past cycle, but will not attend because he got MDPhD elsewhere, did multi-variable, differential equations, and some upper-level chemistry courses that they did not have to as they were a biology major- they also scored a 41 on the MCAT…go figure-either way, I’ve seen non-URMs with much lower scores get in who had similar pathways) or more interdisciplinary science courses (like a bio-organic or biophysics class- Harvard now strongly encourages students to take advanced courses like that).
Either way, here goes: http://as.vanderbilt.edu/hpao/ just look at the stats. Seems they do fine to me. Like any elite school, they are better at providing the means for you to be able to do it, but you have to work really hard and get involved (not in everything, but deeply in some things) if you want to go that route to make yourself stand out even among those applying to top med. schools (especially very top ones). The best way to increase your chances if you end up with stats that qualify you for secondaries and interviews is to simply feel out what the schools like in their community (are they research/intellectual, are they more primary care/purely clinical, whatever). And best of all, DO NOT expect or bank on a bid from a top medical school even if you get an interview effort. It may appear like undergrad. all over again, but it isn’t. The competition is a lot tougher and detecting fit at a med. school is a lot harder (based upon what friends were telling me: They would be surprised when they got an acceptance or denial from a school maybe because they seemed to do poorly or well in an interview or mesh poorly or well with the school).
I would agree the top medical schools are looking for something to separate you from all the other candidates with great numbers. Attending a top university is a nice start. Top med schools are more interested in students wishing to pursue academic careers, sub-specialists, and researchers. Other med school are more interested in students that plan to stay in their undeserved community and go into primary care medicine. Some are looking for both. Look up the mission statements of the med schools you are considering.
They have also learned that academic profiles help predict the first 2 years of med school but the interviews help determine performance for the rest of your career. Use your undergraduate time to grow outside the classroom as well. Explore research opportunities, shadowing, leadership, and service work and use Vandy’s academic community to develop your social and interpersonal skills.
The best preparation an UG university can give you is to teach you how to work, how to learn, how to solve problems, push you academically, surround you with brilliant peers who have set high goals for themselves, and provide the academic and research resources you need to be successful. So, yes Vanderbilt does prepare you well.
Remember that places like Mayo Clinic and Chapel Hill are tops…those are very different, so is Mt. Sinai to a large extent, but most top 10s are research based. Also, they need not craft an experience that makes them look like a “cliche”.