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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]

Well, the national average is in the 41-44% range.  Many schools that report higher rates are excluding those that don't have a certain GPA or get a recommendation from a committee, so you need to be careful when you look at those numbers.  We looked results from all applicants at some schools when our kid was applying and the acceptance rates for recent years ranged from a high of 60% to a low of 52% at UVA, 65% to 50% at W&M, 58% to 54% at Michigan, 57% to 51% at Berkeley, and 51% to 45% at UCLA.  Many schools now shy away from reporting for all applicants now likely because they are afraid they'll be compared to another school when only selected applicants are counted (rather than all). [/quote]

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