Recommend me a great pre-med school!

norcalguy
Sun, 02 Nov 2008 01:38:34 +0000

Med school admissions works the same way as college admissions. Do people from Andover, Exeter, TJHSS, Stuyvesant get into prestigious colleges at a great percentage? YES. BUT, there are thousands who came from regular high schools and did well and they got in. There are also many from those great high schools who couldn’t compete at that level and end up with grades that gave them no shot at a good college, even if they had a great SAT score.



People from Andover, Stuyvesant, etc. don’t make up a majority at top colleges. People from top colleges make up a majority of students at top med schools. At my med school, 70% of the matriculating class came from a US News top 20 college. It’s incorrect to say that school doesn’t matter at all. Whether the advantage comes directly from prestige or indirectly from small classes, more research opps, better academic environments, etc. there is still an advantage to attending top schools for premed if you can afford it.