Top 15 schools put the most kids per capita into med school year in and year out.
So the best way to max your odds of getting into med school?
Be the kind of kid who can get ADMITTED to a top 15 school. Actually attending a top 15 school (or any other school frankly) really doesn’t have that much effect.
In a similar vein, I always point to the data Harvard Law School puts out every year. HLS enrolls 560 kids a year; this year they came from 185 different colleges. There’s a heavy over-representation in the HLS class of kids who went to top 15 schools. Why?
Because HLS generally enrolls smart, ambitious, good test taking kids. And those same qualities are the ones that typically will get you admitted to top 15 schools too.
Those kind of kids attend plenty of schools outside the top 15 – this year’s HLS college list includes Arkansas State, Montana State and Idaho State!