<p>which undergraduate school has the highest amount of pre med students getting into medical school? i heard fullerton is supposed to be the best, with 80%, but i really don't want to go there. it's a commuter school which means your social life will not exist. i want to live in the dorms, etc.</p>
<p>from <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=202936%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=202936</a></p>
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<p>On prestige, notice we are discussing medical students competing for residencies, but the logic probably holds: Quote: Bluedevilmike: The general consensus is this: they have a list of "good schools" and list of "other schools"...</p>
<p>If you are from a "good" school, and your application has no glaring flaws, then you get an interview. If you are from an "other" school, and your application does not have any glaring HIGH points, you do not get an interview. Once you get an interview, that becomes the most important component of their decision, although other things still matter.</p>
<p>Special features - either good or bad - might be board scores, class rank, a second degree, etc.</p>
<p>Bigredmed: That's a great way of putting it. What I have tried to say all along, whether it's undergrad, or medical school, or even residency, if you do well, then where you went is not likely to impact your chances. Doing well is a panacea for almost everything. <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/...d.php?t=164956%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/...d.php?t=164956</a></p>
<p>On grade inflation: Quote: bluedevilmike:If undergrad GPA was all that mattered, and undergrad institution didn't matter at all, then you'd see that among undergraduate schools, all the kids admitted would have the same grades. After all, if school doesn't matter, then isn't a 3.65 the same, no matter where you get it from? A 3.65 from nowhere state should be the same as a 3.65 from Berkeley, a 3.65 from Duke, and a 3.65 from MIT.</p>
<p>Empirically, this simply isn't what you see... adcoms really are paying attention to undergrad institution... Notice that this is not [perfectly] correlated with prestige. <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/...d.php?t=183418%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/...d.php?t=183418</a></p>
<p>On whether it matters at all: Quote: Bigredmed:[Don't] look at prestige as a deciding factor - that name recognition... But there are plenty of other factors that undergraduate institutions provide that vary from school to school... These are probably hard to quantify in a really meaningful way. And the schools that really do well in these categories may or may not line up with the prestige rankings... <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/...d.php?t=197765%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/...d.php?t=197765</a></p>
<p>Quote: norcalguy:Clearly the caliber of students is the single biggest reason for why schools like Duke or Stanford have a higher acceptance rate than state schools but that doesn't discount the obvious advantages of going to a top school. <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/...d.php?t=201428%5B/url%5D%5B/quote%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/...d.php?t=201428
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<p>Also, don't be fooled by high acceptance rates because it tells you nothing about attrition or screening.</p>
<p>If two candidates have the same academic performances and there is only one seat to be filled then the student who graduates from the prestige school will get it.</p>
<p>I think the admission committee will evaluate everything (GPA, Schooling, MCAT scores, medical related experience etc. ). I believe that the school performance indication or reputation will play somehow in the admission decision. Otherwise the medical schools will not get the best and bright students for themselves.</p>
<p>It depends much more on student body of particular UG then UG itself. Surely, if UG is extremely selective and student body is primarily HS valedictorians, it would have higher rate. Remember, UG GPA, MCAT score are primary criteria, beside connections, URM status and heroic attempts at saving humanity from AIDS. Name of school (including Ivy) will not help one without connections, URM status and heroics, GPA=2.5 and low MCAT. However, chances of HS valedictorian having very low UG GPA and MCAT are also low. That is why selective UG will place more kids into Med. Schools.</p>