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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you were planning to go to law or medical school and had the stats and ECs to be admitted to any of the schools listed, would any of these schools make a significant difference in your odds of graduate school admission?[/quote]

Best undergraduate pre-med institutions are listed below. Top schools are Columbia, Harvard, MIT, Cornell, JHU, among others.

https://www.thoughtco.com/best-pre-med-schools-4171863[/quote]

But the article mostly just talks about programs in place in these schools to help Pre-Med students.  I only saw outcomes (% placed in medical school) for two of the schools.  This article does not tell us which schools are "the best" for pre-meds, in terms of their success.[/quote]

I think you just plug in schools you are interested in with its peer university.  WashU, for example is probably similar to Duke that’s on the list. Harvard, Yale, Princeton are not on the list. It’s probably comparable to Columbia.

I would be interested in knowing where CalTech falls. If its med-school admit rate is comparable to Columbia, I am guessing it’s on par with Columbia. If, on the other hand, its admit rate is similar to BU, then it’s clearly overrated. [/quote]

Medical school admit rate isn't the question.  First, none of these schools tend to calculate the same way.  Second, the question was if the kid had the same stats coming out of these schools (MCAT and GPA), would it make a difference?  [/quote]

The U.S. average admit rate is about 50% with a 3.8 GPA. UCLA, uc Berkeley fit this. So you go from there. SLACs are around 80% with 3.5 GPA. Admit rate is defined as admitted to at least 1 U.S. med school. [/quote]

My kid's SLAC has a very high admit rate to med school, but then they only decide to back with recommendations the very best students who are likely to get in.[/quote]

The problem with admit rates is there isn't a standard for how they are calculated, so you don't get an apples to apples comparison if you can get any real data at all.  Some include only those who get a recommendation from a committee.  Some include only those with a certain GPA.   For the most part, it largely seems to me to largely be a function of MCAT and GPA.  Same for law school.  [/quote]

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