<p>ok so if i get into cornell and jhu for undergrad, will going to jhu actually increase my chances of being accepted into a good medical school more than cornell's? i know jhu has better resources, but will i be prepared more, or does undergraduate college even make a difference?</p>
<p>I am a Harvard Med. school grad/Hopkins residency and fellowship. There were peer med. school classmates from State Universities, not only UCs but Cal State whatever and State University whatever (from California and NY), and there were classmates from the Ivy Leagues, Tufts, Univ. of Chicago, Duke, UNC at Chapel Hill, UCLA, really, a diverse pantheon of schools. What seemed to matter most was GPA and MCATs, provided it was backed up by high MCAT scores, and, of course, some of us participated in some significant research, got to be authors on a research paper or had taken a year off and done something wildly original–one guy graduated UCLA and took a year out to be a sous chef before starting medical school.</p>
<p>I know a fair number of people who picked JHU for undergrad, thinking that it would launch them into Johns Hopkins medical school, and it did not. And, again, during my residency, I met people from diverse medical schools. One thing, sort of funny, about my residency and fellowship at Hopkins was that there seemed like an inordinate number of my peers at Hopkins had been undergrads at UC Berkeley; it had been commented on by a few of my attendings that a lot of Cal grads seem to do residencies and fellowships at Hopkins.</p>
<p>So, I think that performance as an undergrad counts more than anything else, and if you are a stand-out at State University at Binghamton (I hope that’s a campus) and one of a few applying to medical school, and there are 30 applicants qualified applicants applying to the same medical school from Stanford, the SU@Binghamton would definitely be noticed and likely accepted. Med. school does like to spread the wealth, so to speak, of its undergraduate acceptances.</p>
<p>Performance, performance, performance. </p>
<p>In the end, what you’ve done outweighs anything and everything. Certainly some med schools have preferences, and some med schools are frequent feeders to certain residency programs, but you still have to have met the standards, the name on your diploma won’t get you anywhere if you haven’t done the work.</p>
<p>While the next step (med school, residency, fellowship) may have favorites, you, as the applicant have to apply to multiple locations. What may be a door opener at one place may haunt you at another. It’s impossible to know what these preferences are, so it’s hardly worth worrying about them. If you make yourself the most competitive applicant possible, it won’t matter where you went.</p>
<p>JHU has better undergrad resources than Cornell?</p>
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<p>More succinctly put than what I was trying to say.</p>