<p>^^^</p>
<p>Sort of agree. It should be a “good” school - not a “mediocre” school. You do need to be properly educated! I would not recommend going to some directional/regional school for undergrad unless you were certain that the bio/chem/physics/math courses were sound.</p>
<p>MCAT score is super important. </p>
<p>However, I do agree that you don’t need to go into big debt for undergrad for pre-med. You’ll have enough debt for med school 
Yikes! LOL</p>
<p>So, take whatever merit or discounts you can from “good schools” for your stats.</p>
<p>If you could get awesome loan-free aid (or minimal loans) from a top, top school, then that’s super!</p>
<p>Where are you applying that will give you good merit?.</p>