<p>Is is possible to get into Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine if your are at the top of your class at Emory University as an undergraduate and are able to get a summer internship at Hopkins Med and get a rec from a professor there?</p>
<p>Is this a joke? You can go to any university in the world and get into Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. It all depends on how you do in that university.</p>
<p>@yuxuanchen, sorry if I sounded quite naive. My dad is a U.S. board-certified doctor but he got his medical degree from a foreign country. I thought Hopkins only accepted Harvard, Yale, and Princeton people along with a few of their own. However, it’s good news that they take people from all universities. That means I have something to work towards if I go to Emory-being the top student and getting research positions at Hopkins Med for my summers.</p>
<p>It did sound a bit naive …</p>
<p>Good luck being “the” top student. I think being an excellent student will be good enough. There will always be students that are just as qualified or amazing as you are. Often they won’t even be those pursuing the same track.</p>
<p>Top med schools will always be a crapshoot for anyone, even then top pre-med at HYPS with a 4.0/42 because the number of qualified applicants to any top med school will always GREATLY exceed the number of spots available. Conversely, someone from a state school can get in JHU or another top med school if they have a reasonably high gpa/mcat (say 3.8/35) but have the ECs and show the right fit for that school.</p>
<p>To put things in perspective, when applying to undergrad only top 10 schools will have admit rates below 10%. For med schools, nearly all of them will have admit rates below 10%, including a majority of state schools (since they cost much less and not everyone wants $200-300K in loans coming out), with top schools having admit rates around 2 to 4%. When nationally only about 40 to 44% of applicants get into ANY med school each year (that means nearly 60% don’t get in anywhere, any most people still apply to 10-25 schools), focusing your odds on one top med school or even a handful of only top schools is the easiest way for even a top applicant to get screwed over. </p>
<p>You have to apply broadly to a good number of match and “safety” schools (I put this in quotes because with med schools very few people, even those with high stats, will have any single school where they are truly a safety) and chances are high that at least one will admit you. The average time between undergrad and med school is 2 years because that many people don’t get in the 1st time.</p>