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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You need very good grades and MCAT scores to get into medical school.  Where you do undergrad is not that important.[/quote]

Also it doesn't matter how great of a student you are. People retake classes to improve GPA, get post Baccalaureate or masters and prepare/repeat MCAT. You don't have to be top student to get into random MD, DO, DDS schools. One of my DD's roommate was a very average student but kept retaking and adding things for 4 years after undergrad and finally made it into some random medical school in a rural area.[/quote]

This would be a long slog and unpredictable... I think it's wrong to imply that it doesn't matter how great of a student you are--if the alternative is taking multiple years post undergrad retaking courses and retaking the MCAT to possibly get into some random rural med school.  The fact is the reputation of the undergrad institution doesn't matter more than GPA--though it's not like it doesn't matter.  But GPA matters.[/quote]

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