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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s commonly said prestige does not matter, and most say cheapest option with highest GPA and MCAT you can. I get that logic.

I can also understand how high SAT/ACT led to prestigious undergrad schools which led to high MCAT and that’s the correlation to strong med school application success.

I could also see top schools covering more in-depth thus making MCAT prep easier or is it truly directional school orgo is same as T5 orgo and it truly does not matter?

[/quote] Top schools matter for top school. T5 med schools tend to give a boost to top undergrads. Brown gets a boost, RPI does not.[/quote]

Certainly! And far more than the T5 med schools do it; spent years on a committee for my T50-65 range med school; undergrad colleges are put into tiers based on rigor and get a slight boost over lower tiers--about 16-18 schools are considered Tier 1, 30 or so are tier 2-- and the major the student chooses is tiered --engineering gets more gpa leeway than others.[/quote]
This is interesting, as I have seen people claim on here that "major doesn't matter; you can major in anything," but if majors are put into tiers, are "easier" majors receiving fewer points? [/quote]

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