<p>I don’t go to Yale.</p>
<p>I’m not discounting that medical school is hard work, I’m just saying that it doesn’t have to be the competition circus it’s often made out to be, and that one does not have to attend a top 20 medical school to succeed either. Unless you want to go into a research career, it’s not even a necessity to go to a top-tier medical school.</p>
<p>I’m sure that Hopkins does prepare one well for the hard work that one will experience in medical school, but so does Vassar, so did my undergraduate college, and really so will any reasonably good college or university with a pre-medical program. One’s preparedness for medical school (or any graduate/professional school) really relies much more on what the student him or herself is doing in college than where they go for undergrad, although some colleges certainly have better resources than others. Vassar is a very well-respected school.</p>