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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For med school admissions, probably he'll be better off in a premed undergrad where he is in top 10% of his cohort, not somewhere he is in bottom 10%.[/quote]

Why do people not understand that?  It's much easier to get a high gpa when you are top of the class.  Also much easier to get to know professors and do meaningful research when you are top of the class/honors program.  You will get better recommendations when you are the bright star standing out.  You will also likely have more time to study for MCATs if undergrad is slightly less stressful academically.  And ultimately GPA, MCATS and recommendations/clinicals/research is what matters, where you attend undergrad really doesn't factor into the equation
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+2 My good friend's husband is an Ivy grad and a doctor. One of their kids wanted to work in investment banking and they paid full price for him to go to the Ivy (same as dad) because for IB that matters (he's now graduated and does in fact work in IB). Other kid wants to be a doctor. That one goes to a good, lower cost state university, not a flagship but a smaller, more undergrad focused college where she can get good experience, rank highly in the class, have good faculty relationships, research experience, etc. Then the parents will pay for medical school.

What matters for most about the college choice is what you can DO at the school, not the specific name. Which, I think really is the case generally outside of a small number of fields like IB/big consulting. [/quote]

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