OP and @17scotts Since Med School apps are still a bit away, speak w/your relatives who are in the medical profession or to their personal doctors. Ask them about their experience. My FIL (now retired) and his practice preferred med school grads from UMich and Indiana – they found them having much better hands on experience (while in med school) than similar applicants from some “top name” med schools. Also, some of those latter grads with their pedigree acted more entitled than others. But when it came time for the heavy lifting and nuts and bolts of patient care, their pedigrees meant nothing.
It’s a small anecdote of a very small sample but their (very successful) practice preferred MDs/DOs from the larger state schools (UM and IU are the largest)