Going to a not so prestigous school for pre-med?

blazinyan300
Tue, 01 May 2007 15:19:27 +0000

I have a question that is bugging me. I do not mean to offend anyone, but from what I have observed from people and sites, like mdapplicants.com, more people get into medical schools from private colleges than they do from state colleges. This is interesting because people from good private colleges seem to get into ivy league medical schools even if they have a lower gpa than a person from a state college. According to MDapplicants.com, I have hardly seen anyone from Stony Brook get into an ivy league medical school, even though the school claims that their students get into medical schools, like Columbia, Harvard and Johns Hopkins. Please tell me if my theory is true that its easier to be accepted into one of the top 20 nationally ranked medical school in the country from a private school. Thanks.