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<p>Statistically speaking, about 75% of “successful” premed students from any top college (including HYPSM) go to a public medical school in his home state for a variety of reasons. Here, the definition of a successful premed student is an applicant who applies and is successfully admitted into at least one medical school.</p>
<p>Actually, I start to believe that</p>
<p>1) If your goal is to enter a so-called top/academic medical school, there is some advantage of going to a top undergraduate college.
2) If your goal is to enter any medical school, it does not matter very much which college (as long as it is above some standard) you go to.
3) The students from a top college tend to get a higher MCAT score, statistically speaking. (But some of the best MCAT takers are from a big state school. The sheer number of applicants from there almost guarantee that there are some MCAT superstars from there.) It is hard to say how much it is due to the “rigor” of the course work at a top college, or these students were naturally good at any standardized tests even before they had entered the college – that is the reason why these top colleges admitted these students in the first place.
4) You can receive a solid medical education at most medical schools.</p>