<p>Short Answer:
I do not believe choosing one over the other will have any effect on pursuing a medical career. </p>
<p>Long Answer:
I would not get hung up on the percentage of people who are accepted that apply from a given institution for 3 main reasons. 1) The school may be more selective in who they let apply to medical school. Meaning there may be more competition in the prereqs leading to the “weeding” out of large numbers of students. Also, some schools have committees that write letters of rec for their medical school applicants. I have heard anecdotes of applicants not getting the “blessing” from their committee to apply. 2) UM produces a very large pool of medical school applicants (as the previous poster suggested) while Princeton does not. When you have a small sample size it makes it hard to compare schools by numbers, such as the percentage of those who are admitted. Cornell is somewhere between UM and Princeton in terms of number of applicants.</p>
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<p>I disagree with the above poster in that I do not believe the medical school at UM takes preference to their own undergrads. They do have a weird auto-interviewing policy (which I do not know all of the details of) that gives preference to applicants from more prestigious schools. But I would be very surprised if Cornell did not provide this boost to the application as well.</p>
<p>There is something to be said for having the medical campus near the undergraduate campus. Getting clinical experience is an unspoken rule for applying to medical school. It also makes it much easier to do clinical research (for those not interested in basic science). However, there were many Cornell undergrads in my medical school class so it must be possible to do these things while at Cornell.</p>
<p>In terms of applying to medical school, I would not get hung up on the rankings of the UM hospitals, research funding or match statistics. While these things may eventually become important (if she gets accepted to the UM medical school or does residency there), that is a few steps (and many years) down the road. For the purposes of the medical school application, where your undergrad institution’s affiliated hospital/medical school stands has no influence. </p>
<p>The most important things to consider when applying to medical school are college GPA, MCAT score, clinical experience, volunteering and somewhere far down the list is the relative prestige of your undergrad school. Therefore, I would really just make sure that wherever your daughter goes she will be happy. If she is miserable then she is not going to do well. For some people this may be at a large, public school with high profile sporting events near a large metropolitan area that is somewhat close to family and high school friends (but not too close). For others this may be a smaller, private school that is far removed from the city atmosphere with tons of outdoor activities close by that has the ivy-league “glow” to it.</p>