<p>I'm going to Howard U in the fall and I'm kind of worried abot getting into medical school. I would like to go to Johns Hopkins or somewhere good like them. So is the name of my undergrad going to affect my chances of getting into a good medical school.</p>
<p>No - that won’t matter. What matters is making a 3.5+ gpa and kicking butt on the MCAT. Also <em>winces</em> good grammar helps too…</p>
<p>Lol thanks, I’m not worried about grammar though, I was watching tv when I wrote that.</p>
<p>I’ve been wondering about this and read that volunteering in hospitals and even in the community in general helps with entering medical schools. But from what I make of it, GPA and MCAT scores are very, very important</p>
<p>Yes they are important but not in themselves sufficient to get you into a medical school, with the rare extreme of, say, someone with no ECs and a 4.0/44T MCAT score. Probably won’t be going to the very top schools, just because they have no need of accepting folks like that since there are candidates with similar stats and good extra curriculars, but those stats would most likely get some school to bite.</p>