<p>Do you think she wants to do a masters to help beef up her med school application for the 2016 cycle or does she want a masters that will be useful for starting her medical career? (i.e. a research area she will continue, a particular specialty she wants to pursue or a career path she has in mind (health administration or medical education)). Getting an MPH is probably a plus for admissions but most people I know who got an MPH between undergrad and med school forgot most of the material by the time they were in residency/fellowship and wanted to use the MPH skills. The letters always look nice after your name, and on your CV, but the programs I work for generally don’t give any “credit” for pre-medical masters (MPH or a MS in lab science) in residency selection process, etc - it looks like time filler or “post-bacc resume buffing” on the CV and most students don’t do anything with it. The exception would be those students who take a “research year” in the midst of medical school and do something substantive. If your daughter has clear career goals in mind (administration or education) a masters of education in health/adult learning or an MBA or masters in health care administration would be more interesting and skills degrade less during her MD years. </p>
<p>On the other hand, her stats look pretty good to me. I don’t know current U of C GPA/grade inflation stats but that would have been a strong one back in the 90s when I sat on the med school admissions committee - once applicants got interviewed and discussed holistically, we did take into consideration what GPA meant at various schools.
I would expect with 29 secondaries, she’ll get in somewhere this year. Do you know what quartile the U of C pre-med office ranked her in their recommendation? In the dark ages of my undergrad - they showed us the cover sheet with the rank box checked. Maybe that’s not OK anymore. Would parents freak if their kid wasn’t top quartile? 
I think I was second or third quartile myself 
I got in everywhere i applied anyhow :)</p>