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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maryland is a good school.  Know lots of people who are there or who have graduated who are very happy.  I would only go to UVA over Maryland if you have a very specific major that is only there.  For medical school, I'd try all kinds of schools and see if she/he can get a scholarship as where you go to school matters.[/quote]
This is the OP - thanks.  Do you mean where[b] dc goes for an undergraduate degree matters[/b] or where dc goes for med school matters?
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PP here, where your DC goes to undergrad DOES NOT matter if he/she is interested in being a doctor. UMBC sends hosts of kids to harvard med.

Medicine is pretty much the last bastion of somewhat egalitarian admissions (even other stem careers like tech are getting hung up on UG prestige...see what marissa meyer said abotu yahoo hiring practices) because it is heavily structured, tracked, and centralized through amcas.

do extremely well on the core pre-med course requirements (you don't even have to major in science as it is only like 8-10 courses that are required for med-school apps), kill the MCAT, interview well, show interest in medicine and you can be competitive at many top med schools no matter where your UG was.

same with med school....med school prestige matters a bit more but even then, not really because if you crush Step 1/2, get AOA, do good research/etc, you will match into a top residency at a top place even if you don't go to the most 'brand name' med school.

medicine stays egalitarian because it is so highly tracked and structured from UG through residency.

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