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It does particularly when the school is a "feeder" school for the med school, like, say, the SUNY UG schools for the NYC medical schools, as well as the many fine UG schools around the NYC metro area. Someone from Kutztown State might have a harder time with Cornell or NYU, despite a high GPA etc, because the Admissions deans might not now the KS is like, but certainly know Brooklyn College, SUNY Stony Brook, or Adelphi.
The moral of the story is that if you do well anywhere you go, you're competitive. But I feel that it's a urban legend among pre-meds that because you went to school X, that it gives you a leg up over school Y. But more importantly, the idea that, say, a 3.2 from Harvard > than a 3,.8 from MSU doesn't hold water in Adcom member's minds.
The moral of the story is that if you do well anywhere you go, you're competitive. But I feel that it's a urban legend among pre-meds that because you went to school X, that it gives you a leg up over school Y. But more importantly, the idea that, say, a 3.2 from Harvard > than a 3,.8 from MSU doesn't hold water in Adcom member's minds.
Wait, so does that mean the caliber of a school's academic rigor and premed program doesn't matter? I am grateful to have graduated from WUSTL with a 3.7+, and I know for a fact that there is absolutely no grade inflation (there might actually be deflation). Is the typical premed argument that "you should go to the most prestigious university you can" entirely wrong, then? Sorry, I just don't want to feel like my time at WUSTL was a complete waste.