I was going to have my boss write a letter to the dean (well he offered) and he is the director of the Brain Imaging Center at UCI. It was in the "drafts" folder of his email, but he never sent it out. He told me today, after I told him I got into UCI, that sometimes people put in a good word without you knowing. I was thinking some strings were being pulled, but I talked to somebody else I work with (this is all in the UCI College of Medicine) and he said that they stopped doing/allowing the "do me a favor and let this student/employee of mine get into med school" several years back.
Nevertheless, working in the college of medicine might have helped my chances. I started working there last August, which is during the admissions cycle. So if you live by a med school you like, working there might allow you a nice inside track, you never know.