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[quote=Anonymous]Go to BU, especially if it's an admit into a 7 year combined program.

Where you go to undergrad doesn't mean that much when you're applying to med school.  Your grades and MCAT do. 
My husband went to a third-tier state school on a full scholarship and then Hopkins for medical school. 
My cousin went to a bible college (which I don't even think was fully accredited) and then to Penn Medicine. 
My brother went to a different christian college and then got a full scholarship at a state medical school (and turned down Northwestern). 
All are successful physicians.

In my husband's class at Hopkins there were students from all sorts of undergrad institutions.   A handful from the Ivys but tons from no-name schools.
He also did residency at Hopkins and I'd say 95% of his residency classmates came from top 10 medical schools.  However, again only a handful of these people 
went to top undergrads.  (I know because the residency class was 36 and we got to know everyone really well).

Basically, medicine is a weird field.  Where you go to undergrad doesn't really matter and many times if you go to an obscure undergrad institution (but do really well)
it actually helps you out.  Especially if it meant that you got more personalized time in the classroom, actually learned more and did better on the MCAT.  Having a top MCAT is critical to medical school admissions 
and the MCAT is a test that actually tests knowledge learned in the science classroom and not general "smarts" like the SAT. [/quote]

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