<p>I want to do engineering at Cornell and was wondering if Cornell’s medical school will look more favorably upon its own undergraduates in the application process. I know Cornell is a tough school for engineering but if I can get a 3.5 gpa and and a 33-34 MCAT there, can I get into their medical school too, or would I need better stats since the averages there are much higher?</p>
<p>Cornell’s medical school is very small in size while Cornell is a fairly large university so competition is tough even if a large percentage of the medical school class comes from Cornell. I didn’t even get an interview with a 3.9/37.</p>
<p>I agree. Expect no favoritism. I also did not receive an interview when I applied. Cornell medical school is extremely selective.</p>
<p>same here, no interview. do not expect favoritism. to get an interview, you have to stand out from the rest of the cornell kids. a high gpa and high mcat alone wont do. (unless you have like a 45…). a friend of mine received an interview. aside from high stats, she went to like 5 different countries helping out, had a ton of volunteering experiences, was president/vice president of several clubs, founded some program, and etc…</p>
<p>^That is ridiculous.</p>
<p>I know one person from Cornell undergrad who got into Weill. She had a 3.8 and 42 MCAT, it’s ridiculous.</p>
<p>Think about it. Tons of people apply to medical schools, and approximately 100 people get into every class for the top medical schools in the United States. (Or so I think) Such as Stanford, Dartmouth, Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, JHU, Duke, UPenn, UCSF, etc. They have acceptance rates which are like 2-3%. </p>
<p>Even if someone from Cornell gets into Cornell Medical School, it would be a slim chance. THey might take that into consideration, but there is a lot of stiff competition. Just going to Cornell won’t cut it for them. What can help is that if you go to Cornell, and maybe have an internship at one of the medical Labs, and write some papers on your discoveries, or something along those lines. They will be able to talk to the researchers at Cornell to see if this is true, probably, and can help. </p>
<p>With this said, not many people from one institution apply to medical school, compared to the overall amount of people in the undergraduate institution. It can simply allow them to recognize that Cornell is known for its academic rigor, and the committee knows how you are graded, in response to the surroundings. This only comes to prove that they know how the environment in the academic concepts are.</p>