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[Walter Raleigh]

It's a small advantage. 4.0 from Podunk State in Underwater Basketweaving is better than 3.2 from Caltech in Astrophysics. You might get cut a little slack if you're from a prestigious school, but not much.

 

[capriccio]

Going to HYPSM vs going to other top 20 undergrads won't matter at all. The only time it might matter a tiny bit is, for example, that a 4.0 at Harvard carries more weight than a 4.0 from a community college, but either way your MCAT will provide a standardized metric for your academic abilities. No adcom is going to automatically turn someone down for attending an obscure college if they scored 520 on their MCAT or something. I have met several people on the T20 interview trail from smaller schools or even colleges that I had never heard of before, so they're clearly doing alright for themselves despite not attending HYPSM.

 

[lalalallala]

The advantage of going to HYPSM will be very slight in comparison to going to another T20 school. It will more so be if the adcoms/interviewers also went to HYPSM. If the adcoms/interviewers did not go to a T10 school then they likely don't think it matters. If they did then they might be a little more impressed if you did, but it is certainly not a large factor. T20 schools are very well respected and very well represented in med school matriculants.