<p>Actually if you look at demographics for each med school you can tell if they favor their own students. For example in Tufts med school the largest percentage of students are from Tufts undergrad. Don’t know if it’s the same in other schools</p>
<p>"“I understand but this “someone” is a college counselor and has been for years. So I trusted them, but apparently according to all ur guys responses this is definitely a bad idea.”"</p>
<p>this is a high school counselor. High school GC’s do a lousy job advising for undergrad, so it doesn’t surprise me at all that she would give super-lousy advice for med school. </p>
<p>high school GCs don’t have experience with the med school app process. And, if she had a child go thru it, she’d know better than give that advice.</p>
<p>@mom2collegekids sorry for the misunderstanding, but this is a private counselor, but regardless I get your point</p>
<p>@Jugulator20 I put this under pre med because it is more popular and the application process for graduate school is very nearly the same. Also, by “I would still like to know: is it advantageous to go to a school with its own dental school?” I mean’t for research. And you talk about a “tie breaker” , what tie breaker?</p>
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Actually that doesn’t tell you whether they favor their own students. It’s very likely that Tufts pre-meds are not only more likely than the average pre-med to apply to Tufts med school, but also more likely to choose it if accepted. In order to know if they favor them, you’d have to know the number of Tufts applicants Tufts receives and the acceptance rate of said applicants compared to the general pool.</p>
<p>what tie breaker?</p>
<p>I’m sorry, I didn’t realize that the term tie breaker was so obscure. Last night in Giants/Cardinals baseball game the score was tied 3-3. One fact (a home run) broke the tie and decided the outcome of the game. Again, what weight, if any, is given by any one school to any one part of app (GPA, DAT, LORs, ECs, interviews, name at top of college diploma, etc) is not public knowledge. Some schools may give some extra weight to name at top of college diploma and that one fact may break tie between a decision to admit/reject just as that one fact (home run) acted as tiebreaker in last night’s game. </p>
<p>That’s a good point @MountSinai. It was a total assumption on my part. </p>
<p>It is not by far who has more and better of something. It is a “match” thing, who they believe is a better match to their program. You will see that some with higher stats and everything, indluding more social personality may get rejected (or put on hold) at the place where classmate who they know very well has a slight disadvantage if you compare everything, get accepted. I would stop comparing at this point, it may break your heart.</p>
<p>@Jugulator20 Oh I get it.</p>
<p>Back to the question I still haven’t gotten a response yet: Does going to a school with a dental school increase the amount of research opp available as an undergrad</p>
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<p>Even so. this person’s experience is likely going to be with advising in regards to undergrad admissions. If she had extensive experience advising for med school admissions, s/he would never advise taking premed prereqs at a CC while you were attending a university. That is a big “no no”. Only someone with little/no experience with med school admissions would suggest that. </p>
<p>and the same goes for dental school?</p>
<p>I’ve heard that schools like Princeton, Stanford, and Harvard that “coddle” their students, tend to do better in med school applications and get higher GPAs. Obiviously, those are incredibly competitive so I was wondering what are some slightly lesser tier schools that " coddle" students and have grade inflation?</p>
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<p>Oh yeah, it’s definitely the coddling and not the fact that these schools contain the smartest students in the country that explains their med school application success. Princeton’s coddling was especially bad given the fact that they capped the number of A range grades they were allowed to give out in each course until this current academic year (<a href=“Grading | Office of the Dean of the College”>http://odoc.princeton.edu/faculty-staff/grading-princeton</a>).</p>
<p>It’s like how everyone wonders how Eric Spolestra, coach of the Miami Heat, will do this year without lebron and bosh. Were the heat a well coached team or did they just have the best players?</p>
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<p>No Bosh? Did I miss something?</p>
<p>Oops, you’re right. I forgot he turned this down: <a href=“Chris Bosh seriously considering Houston Rockets' max four-year contract offer - ESPN”>http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/11187137/chris-bosh-seriously-considering-houston-rockets-max-four-year-contract-offer</a></p>
<p>OP, your most recent post </p>
<p>I’ve heard that schools like Princeton, Stanford, and Harvard that “coddle” their students, tend to do better in med school applications and get higher GPAs. Obiviously, those are incredibly competitive so I was wondering what are some slightly lesser tier schools that " coddle" students and have grade inflation? </p>
<p>indicates either you’re not serious about medical(dental? If it’s dental not sure why you aren’t at the dental forum) school and are just looking for an easy way in.
NEWS FLASH: There is no easy way in; no schools “coddle” anybody; it’s all incredibly competitive.</p>
<p>It is not the school that matters. It is the student/school fit that allows the student to thrive….good grades, adequate MCAT/DAT preparation, research, shadowing, community service. Successful candidates have these things, and they come from LACs, state flagships, ivy and engineering schools. And then they research the professional schools to make sure they are a good fit for the programs they are applying to.</p>
<p>So pick a school that 1) you can afford and 2) where you think you have the best chance of being happy and doing well academically, doing research, and community service. 3) Prepare thoroughly for the admission tests to professional programs. 4) Consider adding a year of research after undergrad to give you enough time to interview and complete applications. 5) practice interviewing</p>
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I’ve heard that schools like Princeton, Stanford, and Harvard that “coddle” their students, </p>
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<p>That is strange. Who told you that? </p>
<p>Anyway, it’s not true. These schools and others are not coddling their students. </p>