<p>Thanks. She's a great girl. </p>
<p>I grew up in Texas. Austin College, in Sherman is a fine Lib Arts College. I have friends who went there.</p>
<p>Good luck on your Daughter's search.</p>
<p>I attended UC Irvine, and many of my friends were pre-meds. This is where some of them ended up...I'll use fake names for them.</p>
<p>Nick...Harvard M.D. Program
Ryan...Harvard M.D./M.I.T. Ph.D. (physical chemistry) joint program
Roger...Harvard M.D./Ph.D. (neurosciences) joint program
Asif...Harvard M.D. Program
Sid...Yale M.D. (currently a resident in general surgery at Stanford)
Bri...Yale M.D./Columbia M.P.H.
Jenny...UCLA M.D. (finished 1st in her class, resident in general surgery at Mass General/Harvard)</p>
<p>And these are just some of them...there are others.</p>
<p>wow. that gives me back hope, because i most likely will attend some public university, since i probably wont make it into the bs/md programs....</p>
<p>just wondering. do you know their stats? like gpa, mcats?</p>
<p>I don't have data on UCIrvine premeds. However, I do have data for UCBerkeley premeds. True, UCIrvine premeds and Berkeley premeds are not completely comparable, so you will have to 'mentally adjust' the Berkeley data to reflect Irvine students (or whatever other public school you want to talk about), but the Berkeley data is still informative. The OP asked whether you can get into a top med-school from a public school, and Berkeley is obviously prominent public school.</p>
<p>In the year 2003, 63% of all Berkeley premeds who applied to med-school got into at least one. So that means that 37% of those Berkeley premeds who applied got rejected to every single med-school they applied to. I'm not just talking about being rejected to the 'elite' med-schools, but to every single med-school that they applied to. Compare that to what happened nationwide - in 2003, 57% of all premeds across the country who applied to med-school got into at least one. Hence, Berkeley premeds are getting into med-school at a rate only moderately above the national average.</p>
<p>Now, since the OP wanted to know about top med-schools, let's look at the top med-schools. Specifically, let's look at the rates of 2003 Berkeley premeds to get into top med-schools, as well as their GPA's and their MCAT's.</p>
<p>Some Berkeley admissions statistics to the following med-schools:</p>
<p>UCSF - 9%
Stanford - 3%
Harvard - 0% (nobody got in)
Yale - 0% (nobody got in)
Johns Hopkins - 2%</p>
<p>And obviously, like I said, this only shows those Berkeley premeds who actually apply to a particular med-school. Clearly if you don't have absolutely exemplary credentials, you aren't going to waste time applying to Harvard Medical. </p>
<p>Bottom line - at Berkeley, more than a third of all premeds who apply to med-school don't get in anywhere, and that doesn't even account for those students who came into Berkeley hoping to ultimately get into med-school, but got grades bad enough to know they're not going to get in anywhere so they don't bother to apply. And when we're talking about not just any medical school, but the top med-schools - well, you see the odds that Berkeley premeds face and the kind of GPA and MCAT that they need. So if that is the Berkeley data, you can extrapolate as to what will be happening at some other public school.</p>