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[quote=Anonymous]Physician who used to be in T5 admissions and a T50ish while staff, went to a T5 med and works with other physicians as private med app consultants, some of whom have prior admissions experience or current admissions contacts: most research based/university hospital affiliated med schools assign a tier/weighting to undergraduate school and program(courses) within that school. In other words almost all desirable MD programs in the US. About 20 undergraduate schools are tier 1. Engineering at a state school would score higher than a bio degree program. GPA is considered within the context of the undergraduate school as well as the program/major/course load. All of that adds up to a small but important part of the admissions analysis. None of that is more important than MCAT and having the baseline course requirements. Yes there are many who apply without all the required and suggested courses. Yes taking a course in the summer at a less rigorous college than the one the student attends is considered a significant negative. Most ivies do not let AP classes waive one out of intro, so that is not too much of an issue—certainly not as important as the rest of the transcript factors above. [/quote]

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