<p>Hope2getrice, your argument is incorrect on a few levels.</p>
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<li><p>Going to Hopkins, in itself, will not give you a better chance of getting into medical school. Hopkins’ students are a self-selected group of people that had high GPAs and test scores in high school and will have high GPAs and test scores in college. For this reason, people from any good school will have a higher rate of admission to medical school. Med school acceptance rates mean nothing to the individual. A hardworking, smart student who goes to a lower ranked school will have, quid pro quo, an equal chance of getting admitted to medical school provided he/she has a good GPA and MCAT score.</p></li>
<li><p>Hopkins has a committee that discourages weaker applicants from applying to artificially boost their med school acceptance rates. Though a little unfair, this might be good for weak applicants who have little to no chance of getting in anywhere and saves them the trouble and cost of applying only to be rejected. It is not a good practice in any way for borderline applicants. Either way, it inflates Hopkins’ med school acceptance rate.</p></li>
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<p>Med school acceptance rates are a very unreliable and very poor way to choose a college.</p>