<p>Find the easiest school that you can get the highest grades in. Once you get into a med school it just doesn’t matter. REMEMBER: What do they call the guy that graduates last in his med school class? Doctor!</p>
<p>haha he’s called Doctor with no residency matches. Or maybe FP or IM ;)</p>
<p>^ haha Jasonhoya, true, but I bet he can always find a nice residency in the Caribbean ;)</p>
<p>srsly, it is NOT a good idea to assume graduating LAST in med school is EVER a good/ok idea lol.</p>
<p>Minor detail: learning something! The MCAT doesn’t care if you went to a top or bottom school…</p>
<p>haha true Hope2getrice. One woman I work with went to med school in the Philippines. No idea why. She came back to the US, and now she can’t get into residency, and needs to retake the boards or something weird. She’s working as a registration person at Gtown Hospital. It’s sad. </p>
<p>I personally thing screening is fine, and honestly, if you can’t get passed the committee, I don’t think having three awesome letters will do you any better. There really is no disadvantage to the screening process, especially when it works well generally. At least at Georgetown, you submit letters of recommendation to the committee, they look at those, your activities and your GPA, and make a decision. It’s a tiered system, you can be extremely recommended, highly recommended, recommended, recommended with reservation, not recommended. These committees don’t need to be made up of people that went through medical school, are physicians, etc. Who do you think you’ll be going to as your pre-med advisor? Certainly not a physician! The vast majority of top schools have a recommendation committee, and for good reason. Why waste over a thousand dollars on the process when you won’t get in? Granted, just because you’re recommended doesn’t mean you’ll get in, but it at least lessens the chance of that happening (it’s up to you to do well in the interview).</p>
<p>Fwiw, Georgetown pre-med courses are about 150 people each, has an 85%+ acceptance rate, but screens.</p>
<p>Screening committees ARE safety nets that safe you time from wasting upwards of $3000 dollars on travel expenses (to fly to schools to conduct interviews) and various expensive med application fees… hours of stress writing and reworking your application essays, secondary, letter of intent, etc… Might as well know NOW to do post bacc, TeachforAmerica, PeaceCorp, research abroad for 2 years, apply next application cycle, do clinical work at a hospital to gain more experience, etc…</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure premed advisory boards are out to have their alumni to* succeed**<a href=“doctors%20will%20be%20more%20willing%20to%20donate%20back%20to%20their%20%5BI%5Dalma%20mater%5B/I%5D%20and%20having%20doctors%20as%20prospective%20donors%20is%20definitely%20a%20good%20thing!”>/I</a> rather than hyper inflate some random statistic that they rarely throw around anyways.</p>
<p>I NEVER said I wanted to go to a top 25 school anywhere. Is CC dedicated to only top 25 schools?</p>
<p>I am going to repeat this ONE MORE TIME…can SOMEBODY give me a good school to go to that has small classroom sizes, focuses on undergraduate education, and gives good preperation for med school. Thats all I was looking for not a lecture. damn</p>
<p>There is only one of its kind: Brown PLME!!!</p>
<p>Not a good idea to offend those from whom you seek advice, which can sound like a lecture. I think you need to work on your bedside manner. ;)</p>
<p>I went to Linfield, and I think it did a pretty good job getting me ready for the MCAT/ Med school. I’m at Saint Louis University School of Medicine now. No selection committee, any of the science profs (bio/chem/exercise sci) are more than capable of giving great advice on medical applications/other health care fields. And they don’t tell people not to apply to protect their statistics.</p>
<p>I just wanted to say to the OP that I get the same feeling you do, that almost everyone on here is the smartest person on earth and forget that other kinds of people exist. Not just talking about this topic, I mean all the time. This is my opinion on the threads I’ve read, but luckily I’ve gotten helpful responses to my questions.
So, sorry that so many people aren’t even answering your question :/</p>
<p>^The biggest thing you should get off of these forums, advice from people that have done it, is that it’s what YOU do that determines whether you’ll get in or not- not your school. Study hard, get involved, be proactive, and you’ll probably be alright. Oh, and have fun in college, too :)</p>