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You are the idiot!  And you have not had a college age child. You are also ignorant of job placement and graduate school acceptance or alumni earnings. What popped out the page 30 years ago has changed and honestly you overall facts are wrong. If you talking about movies, Wall Street, law [b]medicine [/b]PHDs. When your kid or maybe grand kid ends up at some crappy school you may realize things have changed. [/quote]

Actually, med schools don't care all that much about where their applicants went to college.

On the WARS index that applicants widely use to figure out where to apply to there are 121 possible points.  Going to HYPSM gets you 9 points, going to a highly selective school outside of these gets you 6 points, and all other schools gets you 3.

The boost from going to a highly selective undergrad is actually quite minimal in terms of med school admission.

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[b]NYU med is free[/b].  Let's see what the first class looks like besides having a bunch of their grads.[/quote]

It will be interesting.  My child interviewed there in the fall and said some of the chatter among the prospective matriculants was that NYU is a med school for which family connections and donations can make a difference in admissions. Child did not hear that at other schools, but then NYU was the highest ranked school for which they received an interview invitation.

FWIW making a difference in this case would likely mean MCAT and GPA scores that are somewhat, but not drastically, below the average.  So still qualified.

One of the NYU interviewers expressed surprise that child graduated from a DC public high school and not a DC private.  Child also reported that NYU interviewees were by far the best dressed of any they encountered at the schools they visited.[/quote]

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