<p>So I just finished my first year of undergrad and a decently-sized Division II school in Michigan. Are my chances for getting into med school hurt by going to this DII school? I currently have a 3.945 (only because I got an A- in a very difficult honors english class), am in the honors college, in the pre-med club, was in community council, in band, am volunteering at a hospital over the summer and plan on continuing at another hospital during the school year and also hope to begin research this coming year as well as tutoring. I am a very good student (obviously, as all pre-meds are) I got a 4.0 in high school (public) and a 32 ACT (didn’t take SAT). Do you think (if I keep the same grades up…maybe just a little lower, I am taking organic and physics next year!) that I still have a chance at getting into a really good med school, even though I’m not at a very prestigious school?</p>
<p>What’s a DII school? Do you mean for … football? Because I don’t think that changes things… uh, at all.</p>
<p>Division II is just the size…as in, the Univ. of Michigan is Division I, it is just a smaller public university. I realize that the football division doesn’t affect anything at all, I was just wondering how going to the smaller, public university affects things.</p>
<p>I mean, I’m still confused as to whether we’re discussing NCAA divisions, which don’t matter at all.</p>
<p>Whether prestige of undergrad school matters at all is disputable. But certainly your NCAA division doesn’t matter.</p>
<p>I’m sorry, I was just using the division as a means of describing the size of the institution, I didn’t realize it was so confusing. And I realize size doesn’t mean much anyway, I’m just saying I go to a small, public university that doesn’t have a med school.</p>
<p>If you dont mind me asking, which college are you attending? I’m a to-be HS senior with similar stats… Michigan resident, 4.0, 32 ACT… and I’m currently all obsessive-compulsive over where I want to apply.</p>
<p>Part of the reason it’s confusing is that it actually has nothing to do with school size. Duke, Stanford, and all the Ivies are DI, for example.</p>
<p>Anyway, in response to your actual question, the prestige of your undergraduate college is probably not that big a deal, all things held constant. Things like advising and opportunities for ECs are more impt.</p>