<p>Why would anyone who doesn’t want a challenge go to med school?</p>
<p>It’s difficult to call Umich cut-throat in even the slightest way, lol (unless you’re a B-school student, but that didn’t apply in your case).</p>
<p>Unless you feel like you fit in better and would be happier at VTech, you’re making a poor poor decision. You will get a better GPA at the school you are happier at as long as you’re willing to work hard. If UVa is your DREAM, go there.</p>
<p>Id Adcoms are really that smart, they’ll realize that the student at hand is one who is capable of succeeding at UVA, but chose VT instead because of financial reasons.</p>
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<p>Mmm Goucher, a pretty not selective school, has an 80% med school acceptance rate. Case has (or at least had) a 100% med school acceptance rate. These schools aren’t too challenging to get into but can beat out very top school for med school acceptances. So clearly the supposed “prestige” of an undergrad school is not the only factor that goes into med school acceptance.</p>
<p>The Dean of Harvard Medical School got his undergraduate degree from CCNY and his MD from Mt. Sinai. Not Ivy but he seems to have done alright.</p>
<p>I’m not so sure about the fact that VT will be easier… It is an engineering school after all.</p>
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<p>Judging by those stats, it looks harder to me.</p>
<p>Regarding post #40, correlation is not causation, and the observation is simply not valid as the kind of students going to Duke are probably not ‘average’.
The undergraduate school might matter, but that statistic is no proof.</p>
<p>I can understand the OP’s reasoning. Medical schools will almost in all cases take the student with a 3.9 GPA from a state university over the student who got a 3.0 GPA from any ivy league. Obviously the ivy league student had a more difficult, challenging academic experience in college, but a 3.0 GPA doesn’t make that student competitive. However when a 3.5+ GPA from an ivy league school is compared to a 3.9 GPA from a state university, this isn’t as concrete and varies from a case to case basis. That is why there is the MCAT which serves as an equalizer. Good luck to the OP! :]</p>
<p>My daughter recently talked to an administrator at Washington University (St. Louis) Sch. of Med. – when it comes to admission, it’s one of the toughest. (the MCAT avg. is way up there, as is the expected GPA) They expect your gpa to be at a certain level, no matter where you did your undergraduate work. MCAT score is obviously of critical importance, and if they aren’t satisfied with one of the two, you won’t get an interview. She also told us that if you get an interview, it will factor in at around 35% of the final admissions decision. Speaking as a parent, (who did go to college and gave my pound flesh in loan payments) if VT can prepare you for the MCAT and the interview, save your money for graduate school and go to Tech. You could end up in enough debt as it is.</p>
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<p>Nobody who makes med school (or law school or business school or graduate school) admissions decisions will assume an “ivy league student had a more difficult, challenging academic experience in college” than a state university student. People with experience making such decisions know better.</p>
<p>I’m didn’t turn down my dream school but I am going to the University of Minnesota which technically I guess was my safety. I also got into Ohio State, Wisconsin, Vanderbilt, and Wake Forest which I guess are all “better”. Costs are about the same but I never felt as good at any of them as I did at the U of M and I’ve always wanted to be a Gopher and didn’t feel like leaving Minnesota. So yah, I guess I’m “settling” for my safety.</p>
<p>Go Gophers!</p>
<p>Hope, what if in 2 years you don’t want to go to medical school anymore? i think youve made a bad decision.</p>
<p>It’s not a “bad decision,” because VT is a fine school.</p>
<p>3.7 gpa (but that’s out of a 4.0)
2290 SAT.</p>
<p>Chose NYU-Polytech over Carnegie Mellon, etc etc. Frankly, it was the money. lol</p>
<p>oh, and I think it was a bad decision tbh. lmao</p>
<p>I chose UB for engineering over RPI.</p>
<p>Of course it was the money, but the social scene and location may have played a role as well.</p>
<p>4.3 Weighted GPA, more or less, with a 2000+ on my SAT.</p>
<p>Chose Skidmore (my safety) over Wesleyan and Vassar (not a HUGE difference between them unless you look at their respective ranks). For me, it was about the money; Skidmore gave me their Porter Scholarship and automatic admission to their Honors Forum. Can’t say I’m too upset with my decision, considering I’ll get to graduate debt-free!</p>
<p>Unfortunately for some of us, attending our safety school is NOT a choice.</p>
<p>3.9 UW GPA
2320 SAT
Top 1%</p>
<p>Forced (not a choice) to attend my safety school. Rejected/WL’d by everywhere else.</p>
<p>What school would that be?</p>