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Last Date:2012-02-16
Question:
--I will start out by apologizing for poor grammar (it's been a long day). That said I have been trying to find out what universities put the most students into elitist top ten medical schools, but I have been unsuccessful in finding these numbers online. I am a bright and curious student but I was pretty lazy in high school and burnt a few bridges with some less than knowledgeable teachers. In my senior year I took an internship at a hospital and racked up 230 shadow hours as well as developed a passion for medicine and helping people. My question is how realistic is it to get into a top 10 med school from a less prestigious university such as Pitt, Syracuse, Northeastern etc. (not saying these aren't prestigious they're great schools just not ivys). I have already started to get strait As my senior year to help prepare for the challenging workload that comes with a pre-med. Say I do maintain a high average and have great MCAT scores, am I going to have to take a host of Honor's College courses, on top of research on top of more shadowing to get into an elitist med school if that is what I want at the end of my four years? How realistic is this?
Answers:
--You can do your undergrad at the lowest ranking universities and still go to Prestigious Med schools
(Excellent GPA and MCAT ofcourse). Med school officials are ranking you among other applicants not your undergrad universities.
--I will start out by apologizing for poor grammar (it's been a long day). That said I have been trying to find out what universities put the most students into elitist top ten medical schools, but I have been unsuccessful in finding these numbers online. I am a bright and curious student but I was pretty lazy in high school and burnt a few bridges with some less than knowledgeable teachers. In my senior year I took an internship at a hospital and racked up 230 shadow hours as well as developed a passion for medicine and helping people. My question is how realistic is it to get into a top 10 med school from a less prestigious university such as Pitt, Syracuse, Northeastern etc. (not saying these aren't prestigious they're great schools just not ivys). I have already started to get strait As my senior year to help prepare for the challenging workload that comes with a pre-med. Say I do maintain a high average and have great MCAT scores, am I going to have to take a host of Honor's College courses, on top of research on top of more shadowing to get into an elitist med school if that is what I want at the end of my four years? How realistic is this?
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