Undergraduate to Med school

Applying to College
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Do I have to go to a good undergraduate school to be accepted to Med schools? Are Med school admissions competitive? Can I go to a school with a 60-80% acceptance rate and still go to med school? Basically I wanna know everything about life before Med school. Thank you for your help!

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Good, yes. Exceptional (highly competitive), no. To get into Med School you need high grades and a great MCAT score. To learn more head to the Med School forum. http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-medical-school/

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Yes, medical school admission is highly competitive.

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It has to be accredited but otherwise the ranking of the school might not affect your med school ambitions too much. Med schools have to see that you completed all their course requirements (4 semesters of chem, physics, bio, etc. with strong grades), that you completed a bachelor’s with a high GPA, and that you got a high MCAT score.

Very much so.

Of course, just accomplish what I said in #1.

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Do I have to go to a good undergraduate school to be accepted to Med schools?


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An accredited college/univ is fine as long as it’s not some unknown podunk school. And when I say accredited, I mean by one of the huge regional entities like WASC, SACS, and so forth.

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Yes, of course, but I bet you already knew that. We can’t just let any one into med school, can we? :slight_smile:


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Can I go to a school with a 60-80% acceptance rate and still go to med school?

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Absolutely. There are many very good schools that have a high acceptance rate. Many very good state schools and many privates have high acceptance rates, and their students get into med schools.


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Basically I wanna know everything about life before Med school. Thank you for your help!

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Med schools really don’t care where you went to undergrad as long as it’s a decent school. You have to complete the prereqs.

you need a strong cum GPA and a strong BCPM GPA

You need a strong MCAT score (above 507, preferably)

You need medically related ECs

You need strong LORs.

What else do you want to know?