Undergrad reputation..should I bother?

[kendanis]

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Hello, I'm about to graduate with a B.S from Devry University (which is a fully accredited 4 year school) with a 3.7 in business. My current plan is to go to a state school to do my pre-reqs for about 2 years. I'm of course hoping to get a 4.0 while I'm there and even out at a cGPA of ~3.8

Basically, is the lack of reputation that Devry has going to negatively effect me for med school? Specifically a CA school? I unfortunately live in CA!

And any general advice for me? Like should I only do pre-reqs? or a little bit of the upper-levels?

Thx!

 

[drizzt3117]

Yes, it will definitely hurt you, unfortunately for-profit institutions don't have the best reputation among med schools. You can counterbalance that to some degree by doing extremely well in your science courses at a state school and doing very well on the MCAT, but it will still be an issue, I'm guessing.

 

[pietachok]

You can't do anything better than try!
In the worst case scenario, I can't imagine that Ross (owned by DeVry) would hold it against you...but who knows.

Because of your undergraduate institution, I would make sure that when you do your premedical courses, you have at least one term where you take a full course load (even if you have to take a non-required elective). If medical schools are skeptical that your college was on point, they will refer to this to judge your ability to make good grades while handling a full and difficult course load as you will have in medical school. Even students who went to good colleges but took a lot of time off before applying to med school or who were humanities majors are recommended to do this.

 

[kendanis]

Thanks a lot for the advice. Yeah I'm probably going to do some of the basic G.E stuff again as well just in case of transferring issues. But yeah, Ross would be a good back up plan.