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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Suppose you are a good but not super star student. SAT 1530.  Which would you choose in what order for premed? Cornell, Duke, UVA.[/quote]

Ok, I will bite.

Among the three, Duke no brainer.  
You can do it at Cornell, but it only makes it a lot more difficult.  Premed is already a stressful process, it's not necessary to make it more complicated.  
UVA is not particularly know for premed, acceptance rate to medical school is not comparable to Duke.  
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Uhhhh….uva has a medical school, teaching hospital with opportunities for clinical hours, and ample opportunities for research. Many students are pre-med there.  As a parent of one, I have sat through several sessions and seen percentages of med school acceptances. It was close to the national average range after a gap year. Without a gap year, the percentage was lower but I think that’s to be expected.[/quote]

After a gap year, [b]med school acceptances from UVA are between 50-60%[/b], higher than national average. It was lower without the gap year, but with it, most students are very successful.

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This is miserable.   A good premed program should have > 80% acceptance rate.[/quote]
Is that UVA data recent? That is lower than I have heard. Maybe it is because it is for gap year students and for non-gap year kids it is more like 80-90?
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