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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This site placed Chicago a solid 34th nationally by medical school placement:

https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/from-pre-med-to-md-understanding-the-pathways-to-medical-school/

If you are not committed to the idea of Chicago, then you may benefit from exploring even higher ranked colleges. [/quote]

This is a super interesting website to play around with. I’ve see it before and forgotten about it, thanks for sharing. [/quote]

That site is flawed and completely inaccurate. Both my kids are at ivy/+  schools listed on the first sheet of that article as having 3% or so go to medical school. That is completely FALSE. They used linked in and other things to "track" it. Most docs do not have or post on linked in. 
There is internal data as well as external googlable AMCAS data on my kids' and most schools. Out of 1500-1800 total undergrads per graduating class at my kids ivies plus my own alma mater(a different elite school on that first page), 260-380 PER YEAR get accepted to an MD program in the US (out of 290 to 411 applying each year). About 40% apply without a gap. The gap or not does not matter because the average from each graduating class works out to the same numbers. These schools do not list apps with more than 2 gaps.
In other words it is 17-25% of the graduating class who go to med school(MD) in the US, immediately or within 2 yrs. Not 3%. 
Please folks do not use that inaccurate data. [/quote]

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