<p>just out of curiosity, which schools favor their own undergrads for their med schools and which ones don't really seem to have a preference. ex. ive heard harvard likes to get its own undergrads into its med school. or is there nothing like that? just curious...</p>
<p>uh..i think i read similar threads over similar topics...plz check the sticky threads first please.</p>
<p>I think what you have heard about Harvard may be wrong.</p>
<p>I just had this discussion last night with the parent of a friend of my son who just graduated from Harvard undergrad. Of his six Harvard classmates/friends who applied to med school there, none got in. They got into Penn, Hopkins and Columbia but not Harvard.</p>
<p>I'm actually more concerned about the opposite myth...that harvard disfavors its own undergrads.</p>
<p>^this I have heard a LOT</p>
<p>Among the top schools, WashU is the only one I know of that really favors its undergrads (they even have a combined program that, while it has high standards for admissions to the med school, still sets the bar below the med school class mean). Penn used to give a fair amount of preference, but that appears to be waning with shifts in administrative philosophy (the president believes that the undergrads should experience a different institution for their graduate education).</p>
<p>From what I've seen, Duke Med also seems to favor their own undergrads, but not to the same extent that WUSTL does.</p>
<p>Oh, and Penn's president is absolutely 100% correct.</p>
<p>I think there are state schools that favor their own - but more because they are required to take so many students from their own state (eg: Univ of Ariz - most come from ASU or UofA).</p>