Went to a non-top-20 school, wound up working at McDonald's

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Does it mean that Yale’s pre-med education really is superior, or that medical schools are impressed by prestige?

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<p>From the abstract of the study I linked to in post 117:</p>

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In summary, adding a measure of an applicant’s undergraduate institutional selectivity by employing the average MCAT score of applicants from that institution can produce a small improvement in prediction of performance on USMLE Step 1.

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