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<p>A boatload. Cornell has the perfect balance of size and quality, which is why they send more students to med school than any other school in the country. Harvard, Yale, etc. have higher percentages (as you’d expect) but they are also much smaller. Berkeley, UCLA, UT-Austin produce more applicants but they have much lower percentages than Cornell. In other words, med school adcoms know Cornell and the quality of premeds it produces very well.</p>
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<p>All the top med schools. I interviewed at a lot of the top med schools and I met a ton of Cornell applicants. At Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, 3 out of the 10 interviewees on my interview day were from Cornell. At Penn Med, 5 out of the 25 interviewees were from Cornell. In my (top 20) med school class, there are 4 Cornellians (more than any other undergrad except the affiliated undergrad). Last year, out of 230 or so undergrad applicants from Cornell, over 90 scored higher than 35 on the MCAT. So, you can expect Cornellians to be well-represented among the top med schools.</p>
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<p>If you can get a 3.4 or above, your chances are good. The average GPA at Cornell is around 3.4. </p>
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<p>Excellent. Judy is the health careers adviser and her advice is SPOT ON. Many colleges have generic advisers but Judy is right on the money with her advice. She will give talks throughout the year on everything from how to get letters of rec to how to fill out the AMCAS application to what to do if you’re waitlisted. And she audiotapes everything and puts it online if you miss a seminar.</p>
<p>The HCEC committee that write your committee letter is also very good. Their job is to make you “walk on water” as my HCEC interviewer put it. The HCEC committee letter will let you bypass any med school’s individual LOR requirements. That letter can be substituted for the typical 3 letters that med schools require. And they prefer/require the committee letter. Some top schools <em>cough Stanford cough</em> don’t have a committee for some inexplicable reason.</p>
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<p>Lots of volunteering opportunities available from tutoring disadvantaged high school students to volunteering at the hospital to working at soup kitchens. I did all 3 and they were EASY to get.</p>
<p>Cornell also has two programs (both of which I did as well) which pairs you with local doctors to shadow so you don’t have to cold-call doctors on your own. One of the docs (a Cornell alumnus) even offered me his Cornell hockey tickets.</p>