<p>So I have been admitted to both the University of Michigan and the University of Washington and it's been really difficult for me to choose between the two. I am out of state for both schools (I live in CA) and have not received any scholarship/financial aid at either. I want to go to medical school after undergrad and I plan to major in some sort of biological sciences at both schools. Both schools have amazing medical schools and a strong biology department so which of these two schools do you think would best prepare me to be admitted to a top medical school like (harvard, stanford, and etc..)???</p>
<p>really??? I felt like even though Washington’s med school is better than Michigan’s, Michigan’s is still great and Michigan is a stronger undergrad school in my opinion, but at the same time Washington’s undergrad is not terrible either</p>
<p>Overall Michigan’s undergrad school is better and more prestigious. However, both are excellent choices for someone going into medicine. It really comes down to which school has the better fit for you. Also, Michigan might be the better choice if you’re not 100% set on med school, since umich is more well rounded university.</p>
<p>First of all, UDub’s medical school is not better than Michigan’s. The two are about the same. </p>
<p>Secondly, if cost of attendance is the same, I would recommend Michigan. It is the better of the two universities. If you choose to go to medical school, both will present you with excellent placement opportunities, but if you change your mind and decide not to go for medicine, I think a degree from Michigan will serve you better.</p>
<p>Michigan is a more prestigious name. However, the med school acceptance rate for its students at UofM isn’t great (~50% aka the same as the national average). I do not know that of University of Washington’s, but definitely worth investigating. </p>
<p>WishfulWolverine, all public universities will have similar medical school placement rates (40%-60%) because they encourage all students to apply to medical school. When one quarter of your medical school applicants have no chance of getting in in the first place (sub-standard GPAs and MCAT scores by medical school standards), it is bound to impact the placement rate. If Michigan imposed similar advising standards as many private schools, it too would have a placement rate of 75%. </p>
<p>That does not mean that Michigan does not place students successfully into top medical schools. Qualified Michigan students place very nicely into medical school. On average, over 50 Michigan students are placed into Michigan Medical school annually. That alone is a huge number. Very few elite medical schools enroll more than 20 of from their own applicant pool. </p>
<p>In addition, Michigan is usually one of the 10 most highly represented university at most top medical schools. For example, here are the number of Johns Hopkins Medical students currently enrolled according to their undergraduate institutions:</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins University 74
Yale University 40
Harvard University 39
Stanford University 23
University of California-Berkeley 17
Cornell University 16
Duke University 14
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 14
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 13
Princeton University 12
University of Maryland-College Park 12
University of Pennsylvania 12
University of Virginia 11
Columbia University 10
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill 9
University of Chicago 8
University of Georgia 8
University of Texas-Austin 8
University of Florida 6
Northwestern University 5
University of Washington 5
Vanderbilt University 5</p>
<p>Or the number of students who enrolled at Washington University-St Louis Medical school from 1998-present:
Washington University-St Louis 212
Harvard University 84
Duke University 65
Stanford University 62
Johns Hopkins University 49
University of California-Berkeley 49
Northwestern University 46
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 43
Yale University 41
Rice University 39
University of California-Los Angeles 38
Cornell University 37
University of Pennsylvania 37
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign 35
Princeton University 31
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 30
Brown University 27
Vanderbilt University 26
University of Notre Dame 24
Dartmouth College 23
Emory University 21
University of Wisconsin-Madison 21
University of Georgia 20
University of Virginia 20
Indiana University-Bloomington 19
University of Chicago 18
University of Texas-Austin 17
New York University 14
University of Arizona 14
University of California-San Diego 14
University of Florida 14
University of Southern California 14
Columbia University 13
Williams College 13
Georgetown University 12
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill 12
University of Illinois-Chicago 11
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 11
University of Washington 11
Amherst College 10
Pomona College 10
The Ohio State University 10
University of Iowa 10
University of Maryland-College Park 10
University of Toronto 10</p>
<p>For what it is worth, Michigan is better represented than UDub at both JHU and and WUSTL medical schools. </p>