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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a pre-med kid at UVA and a second one at an Ivy. The medical school matriculations from the two are very different. UVA sends primarily to state schools, Ivy sends many to top10 med schools. UVA kids almost all take gap years, the Ivy kids generally do not.

We're both in medicine and realize that an MD is an MD. But it's nice that places like Yale and Penn medicine are in the conversation from the Ivy undergrad. [/quote]

Yes! Was just talking to a colleague about this. We are a med-law couple. Ours are at different T10s, one is an ivy one not. 
He is an MD-professor couple. They have one at UVA and one at a top-10 with a very high ranked med school(not an ivy) and it has been a large difference. That being said, he noted the UVA kid would not have had an easy path to be above-average at the elite school, they pushed UVA ED for that reason plus kid liked it best. 
Their elite kid was above-average 3.81 GPA at the elite, 518 MCAT, but not top-quarter GPA or MCAT from that school, and was disappointed to not get into T10 med but they got into two in the T20, one with 50% merit scholarship. They have friends going to T10 who had higher GPA. All had intense 2+ yrs research during undergrad and many were co-authors on papers which seems to be how premeds roll at our kids' schools. The only one who took a gap did it for some funded named Fellowship in Asia. 
Their UVA kid has a very high GPA at UVA, 3.9x after first -year, and got into a lab for the fall of their sophomore year which apparently is hard to get as a sophomore. The UVA data has almost all state schools and very rare T20 and up however the MCAT score distribution for UVA grads is likely quite different than the elite, just as SAT distribution is quite different. [/quote]

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