<p>Ribbons,</p>
<p>Which will result in more awe among your parents’ friends:</p>
<p>Undergraduate Degree: Northeastern, Med School: UCLA</p>
<p>Undergraduate Degree: UCLA, Med School: University of Phoenix because you can’t afford UCLA Med</p>
<p>A great driver of prestige rankings are the graduate programs of the individual colleges and universities. If prestige is a tipping point concentrate on where you get in for med school. Med school admissions are about GPA and MCATs. Your parents friends likely won’t care if your undergrad degree is from a prison-based correspondence school if you show them a diploma from Harvard Med.</p>
<p>IMO, if you’re planning on med school go to the cheapest option for undergrad and save, save, save.</p>