<p>How well regarded is UVA across the nation? Where I'm from on the west coast, I get the idea that not many have heard of it.They consider it just like a random state university. I'm considering it for medical school and would like to go to a well-reputed medical school in order to have a better shot at the best residencies. Especially since I went to a no-name undergrad, I want a big name school on my resume. How well reputed in medicine is USC vs UVA vs Case Western? If you're uncertain about the reputation in medicine specifically, then how about the general name recognition?</p>
<p>Medical schools care very little about the prestige of your undergrad, but rest assured, anyone who’s on a graduate admissions committee at a decent school knows UVA isn’t a random state school.</p>
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None of those are unknown schools. All will be fine places to graduate from.</p>
<p>Anyone would be lucky to be admitted to UVA medical school. I’m not sure how much harder it is to get in from out of state, but if you do get accepted, it is a well respected school.</p>
<p>UVA is considered one of the “public Ivies”.</p>
<p>How well regarded is the University of California at Berkeley across the nation? Or UCLA? Well, even here on the right coast, we’ve heard of them. Even though they are, as you say, just a random state university. Even if we don’t know or care if “Berkeley” is an actual place or not. They’re both in LA, the only city in California, right?</p>
<p>I don’t really know anything about South Carolina, but I get the impression it is not nearly as well respected or known outside the state as Case Western and Virginia are. It’s just another random state university, I think.</p>
<p>UVA Medicine -
4,804 total applications
889 Virginia applications
3,915 out of state applications</p>
<p>145 Virginia interviews (16.3%)
480 out of state interviews (12.3%)</p>
<p>Entering class 156 students
46% Virginians (~ 72 students, about 50% of interviewees and 8.1% of applications)
54% out of state students (~84 students, about 17.5% of interviewees and 2.1% of applications)</p>
<p>CWRU Medicine (I could not verify this data):
5,947 applications
1,064 interviews (17.9%)
197 matriculated (18.5% of interviewees and 3.3% of applications)</p>
<p>CWRU is more of a longshot than Viriginia in-state, but Virginia is more of a longshot for an out-of-state applicant.</p>
<p>Of course, this is mostly ridiculous - your residency would be earned by your grades and your professors’ recommendations, if you do go to med school.</p>
<p>I would say that UVA, Cal Berkeley and the University of Michigan are probably the top three state universities over time. </p>
<p>I am sure that it is true that many in California think that it is just another average state university. That is true for a lot of schools. However, most people also thing that the University of Pennsylvania is just an average state university too. It really says more about the average person.</p>
<p>MAYBE at the UG level BUT Uva does not make the cut as a major international research U. By a long shot.</p>
<p>@abdallah: “Especially since I went to a no-name undergrad, I want a big name school on my resume.”</p>
<p>OP, a physician friend of mine, who has been practicing medicine for about 40 years, likes to say that “the only thing that’s important is having the letters ‘M.D.’ after your name.” Where you go to medical school – just as in where you do your undergraduate school before medical school – is not that critical; it’s what you do with your degree that counts. So don’t obsess about the status of a medical school.</p>