Lol typo.I'm not saying I want to drown in debt, just wondering what the difference is. Also how big of a difference will going into johns Hopkins make when going into a competitive residency when compared to a state school
I would ask you to think about this question: are many of the undergraduate students accepted at Harvard, Yale, Hopkins, and etc., from Ivies because they simply look at the name and think,
"S/he went to X Ivy League...They're in!" or are top 10-20 undergraduate programs simply better at creating competitive students, which are in turn more sought after in the medical school admissions process? I think the answer is the latter.
In the same way, if you want to get into a competitive residency (I'm saying this as an undergraduate student, who obviously doesn't have much experience in this realm), I would think you need to be... competitive. Will it help if you get into a medical school that is "top 10"? Of course it will, and that's because presumably they have many more resources to offer you such that you become a competitive student. However, if you "only" get into Dartmouth vs. Hopkins, are you still going to have a chance at competitive residencies? I would think so,
as long as you are competitive.
So to answer your question, in reality, I don't think it will make
that much of a difference. Going to Harvard is going to be different than going to X state school, and going to X state school is going to be different than any other university as well. It's what you make of it, and as long as you take advantage of the resources offered to you, I think you'll be just fine.
