Confessions of a Med School App Reader

[nrtlax33]

Hi @iwannabeBrown : I am wondering how you feel about the following statements from http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/2558928/#Comment2558928 and http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/1122176-bluedevilmikes-ten-step-guide-to-picking-a-premed-school-p1.html

The general consensus is this: they have a list of “good schools” and list of “other schools”…

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.

The reason I ask this is because I found out that the majority of students in the “competitive” medical summer programs are from “good” schools. With the number of applicants to anything related to medicine surging and the admission rates dropping to something similar to top 20 college applications, would you tend to pull those files from “good” schools first if they have no glaring flaws?