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a good portion of the advice is objectively incorrect.[/quote]

Really? Any examples?

I don't always agree with some posters on CC but I can't say what they wrote is "objective incorrect." For example, I dislike the "all ABET engineering schools are similar" view, but there is some truth to it – if a student is not aspiring to anything more than working at an average engineering company, where they graduate from make little differences.[/quote]

Agree, that ABET phrase and "go to premed wherever it is cheapest, undergrad does not matter at all" CC repeat leaves a lot unsaid. It could work depending on the undergrad school's premed track record, but without due diligence is a recipe for disaster. For true top highly motivated premeds it could cut the student out of any reasonable chance at a top-30ish research based med school where one needs to be if they want the best chance at certain subspecialties. You have to be at a med school that has those subspecialties in order to match into those fields for residency. For capable but not super-top premeds, many schools have too small a premed population and/or poor advising with large weedouts and lots of Cs. These students would be better off at LACs.

CC also does not do well for students who are above-average 1100-1250 SAT kids who will not get into in-state flagships but need to find the best schools within range that will fit them.

Other than those quibbles, CC provides solid accurate advice for most students who are targeting T50 private or Top 20 publics, and frankly has excellent advice on LACs both selective and less so. Dcum only cares about WASP and is oddly anti-LAC. 
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