<p>What's better, going to a school with more prestige, but since it's a harder school you will probably get a lower gpa, or going to a school with less prestige and getting a higher gpa. </p>
<p>hypothetical example: a 3.4 in Harvard vs a 3.6 in Johns Hopkins vs a 3.8 in Rutgers vs a 4.0 in community college...you get the picture...</p>
<p>I plan on applying premed, and I'm really not sure whether prestige is more or less important than GPA when applying to med schools. Anybody know?</p>
<p>You should try to go to the best school, but for pre-med you could focus on a higher GPA at a lower ranked school, and study for your tests and stuff and may get the same opportunities.</p>
<p>You’ve already been told that:</p>
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<li><p>The best answers will be on the PreMed Topics forum.</p></li>
<li><p>A quick look at recent threads and use the Search function on that forum would give you your answer as this is probably the most FAQ there.</p></li>
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<p>Also, this is the wrong forum to post this, it belongs on either the above forum or the Search & Selection forum.</p>
<p>Depends on whether you want to go to graduate school, which I’m assuming you do. Med school is very competitive, so I would say going to Harvard will show that you’ve duked it out with the best of the best rather than saying you creamed the local cc. Get my drift? Go where it feels right, don’t just go to a school because it will boost your GPA.</p>