Which College?

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I know the importance of undergraduate prestige in relation to medical school acceptances has been debated ad nauseum, but I thought it would be a good idea to get some additional input before I make my final decision on May 1.

I have narrowed it down to Northwestern/Wash U/Rice vs SLU/Clemson. I would graduate from the first three with approximately $50,000 in debt, while I would graduate debt-free from SLU/Clemson.

I would like to have the chance to go to a top medical school (Harvard, Hopkins, UCSF) and eventually become a leader in my field (tentatively neurosurgery).

If I graduate from SLU/Clemson with a 4.0 and a high MCAT with research and clinical experience, will I have a good chance of getting into a top medical school or will I have to do something amazing (i.e. multiple publications in NEJM, Nature, etc.) to have a chance?

Thank you in advance.

 

[TheTruckGuy]

If I graduate from SLU/Clemson with a 4.0 and a high MCAT with research and clinical experience, will I have a good chance of getting into a top medical school or will I have to do something amazing (i.e. multiple publications in NEJM, Nature, etc.) to have a chance?

Look up their entrance statistics, be one standard deviation above the mean in half the categories and no more than 1/2 a standard deviation below the mean in the rest(MCAT, GPA, medical experience, community service, research), and you'll be able to get in no problem.

 

[Phlame217]

I know the importance of undergraduate prestige in relation to medical school acceptances has been debated ad nauseum, but I thought it would be a good idea to get some additional input before I make my final decision on May 1.

I have narrowed it down to Northwestern/Wash U/Rice vs SLU/Clemson. I would graduate from the first three with approximately $50,000 in debt, while I would graduate debt-free from SLU/Clemson.

I would like to have the chance to go to a top medical school (Harvard, Hopkins, UCSF) and eventually become a leader in my field (tentatively neurosurgery).

If I graduate from SLU/Clemson with a 4.0 and a high MCAT with research and clinical experience, will I have a good chance of getting into a top medical school or will I have to do something amazing (i.e. multiple publications in NEJM, Nature, etc.) to have a chance?

Thank you in advance.

Go where you are debt free and most of all happy. I went to a local 4 year commuter college for my undergrad with pretty much a full ride in scholarships, did well, and got in where I wanted. People from my college who had desires for Ivy league and all that were able to get in there too by putting in the work. One of the students whom we worked under the same PI during research had a paper published in Nature with her as an author, but not as the lead nor the PI. She got offered a full ride to Harvard's Grad school and took it.