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<p>Top medical school is a bit of misconception. The quality of medical education in the US is relatively flat. All US allopathic schools are accredited by the same accrediting body, follow the same basic curriculum and all students must pass the same national standardized exams.</p>
<p>Getting in ANY US med school is a feat in beating the odds. </p>
<p>67-75% of all freshmen pre meds never actually get to senior year still as pre-meds.</p>
<p>Of those who do persevere until junior or senior year, half who take the MCAT don’t score high enough to make an application a worthwhile investment of their time & money. (IOW, they don’t bother applying because their score is too low. The median MCAT for an accepted student for 2013 was 33–that’s up significantly in just the past 5 years.)</p>
<p>Of those who do apply (~66,000 last year), 60% get shut out of every medical school they apply to.</p>