Cornell GPA- For Med School

norcalguy
Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:17:45 +0000

It’s not so much you gain an advantage by going to Cornell. It’s that you are at a disadvantage for going to a state school.

I’m going to be perfectly honest: if you don’t attend a top 25 college, you have a really really low chance of getting into a top med school. And we’re talking about schools where the acceptance rates are in the 2-5% range already.

You think you’ll be competing against boatloads of state school grads. In reality, you are competing against boatloads of MIT, Harvard, Cornell, Duke, Berkeley grads. I had the fortune of interviewing at 13 medical schools, 6 of them ranked in the top 20. At the very top med schools, 3/4 of those interviewed came from a prestigious college. At my own medical school, over 70% of my graduating class came from a top 25 college. So, going to Cornell isn’t going to give you a step up. It only keeps you on an even field. When a top med school says its average is a 3.8, you’ll need at least a 3.7 to be competitive.