<p>Is Rutgers University reputable enough to not be detrimental in applications to top-tier medical schools?</p>
<p>Yes? No? Maybe?</p>
<p>The short answer is that it is reputable enough to not be detrimental in applications…</p>
<p>With this said, for most students, the biggest hurdle is whether they could be among, say, the top 5 students in the premed crowd at Rutgers (or any comparable college.) If you are one of these top students, the school’s prestige will not be detrimental AT ALL. If you can not make it to the top N students, even the prestige from Harvard will not help you. The N is a dependent variable of the college.</p>
<p>I know one applicant who was from HYPS and was in the middle of the crowd of premeds in her class. She managed to get into a SUNY med school in a more rural area in the end. So you can see that the school’s name would not help her much if she was beaten by, say, a majority of the premed pool who actually apply from her school. (Some bottom X% of the premed pool will likely drop out even before the application starts.) She probably could get into a similar school, likely not one of those big name med schools conveniently located in NYC if she went to Rutgers or any other college. It is the individual efforts that make the difference, not the school. (I guess her SAT CR (and therefore likely MCAT score, by implication) was not as high as many other students at the same school, where the 75 perentile is 800. AT most schools, mostly top students are in the premed classes.)</p>