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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pick schools with low cost, no grade deflation, good pre med advising, high med school admission rate, located in medical districts to get year around internships, research, shadowing, volunteering, mentoring opportunities. 
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+1 FWIW, my good friend's husband is a doctor/Ivy grad. Two of their kids went to Ivies (finance and CS careers) but the one who wants to be a doctor (equally good student) is going to an excellent regional state U. The parents plan to pay for medical school and prioritized the things detailed above to set her up well for med school admissions.[/quote]

That is one opinion. Dual doc family and we would encourage this only if our aspiring premed was not likely to be top half at a T10/ivy. We would pick the school with the best research and preferably med school on or near campus that they were likely to end up in the top 25%. If they were a very top student who aced standardized tests(sat is somewhat predictive of mcat), we would encourage an elite school if they got in, because elite undergrad programs often have much easier access to research and a med school on campus, AND med admissions happens even for average kids, because the premed advising is top notch. [/quote]

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