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Is it just me, or is anyone else getting nauseous already with another version of the same topic?
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Wait until you're on CC for a few years and have applied to med school. If you think it irritates you now, you may well have an aneurysm then.
OP: First, let's make this abundantly clear that as a high schooler you have less than no idea about how difficult it is to get into a top 10 med school, and even less idea regarding the reasons for wanting to attend such a program. You must understand that even the very best premed advising programs (Harvard, Duke, Penn, Hopkins, WashU, etc.) send maybe 2-3 kids a year to each of the top ten schools (which in general are relatively small in size, with an average class size of probably about 120; Stanford and Yale are particularly small, UWash is bigger), and then about 10-15 to the program to which the undergrad is affiliated (all of which are in the top 10 among the schools I listed). Most of these schools have about 300 kids applying to med school each year, and ultimately about 30-40 will end up at a top 10 program when all is said and done. Mind you, the students who have made it to the point of even applying have survived the insane amount of attrition that comes with any premed program and even then ended up in at the top of the pool in their respective classes. This is not to say that you must by any means attend a prestigious undergrad to get into a top med school, but wherever you are you must excel. The top schools have plenty of grads from lesser-known publics and LACs, but are heavily populated by ivy grads, mostly because the students who attend those undergrads are excellent students to begin with, not because of where they went to school.
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