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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've been practicing medicine for over 25 years and sit on the admissions committee of a medical school. On a macro level, the PPs are exactly correct. When admissions committees from medical schools look at your application, the reputation of your undergraduate institution is not something that is considered (within reason, of course. A U of Phoenix degree is going to be looked at as suspect. But a perfectly legitimate but lesser ranked school like JMU or GMU or McDaniel? no.) If a student has a high GPA and MCAT, solid extracurricular activities, a strong personal statement, and thoughtful supplementary essay responses, his or her school’s reputation will have little bearing on admissions. A good applicant is a good applicant, whether they come from Harvard or Frostburg. Ignore well-meaning - but ignorant - people who try to tell you otherwise. [/quote]

Thanks, very helpful. Family member attended JMU undergrad and is now a successful physician after attending a highly respected medical school. He laughs at these myths too.[/quote]

Who's going to help your kid apply to medical school at a shit college? The janitor? They're on their own. At Brown you have an entire department dedicated to polishing pre-meds applying to med schools. Who's going to push your kid to overachieve at a shit school? The slackers all taking 5 6 7 years to graduate? At an Ivy pretty much everyone finishes on time.[/quote]

My husband went to med school at Hopkins.  His classmates (our friends at the time) were from every college under the sun.  From Harvard to many state schools to no-name bible colleges.  If you take the pre-recs and do very well and rock the MCAT and write a compelling essay you can get in from ANYWHERE.  Medicine doesn't care that you went to Harvard.  They don't want a class full of Harvard and Yale grads.  They want a diverse class of people who are passionate about becoming physicians.    
And you don't need an "an entire department polishing pre-meds".   Applying to med school isn't hard.  I helped my brother through this process a few years ago.  He had really good grades.  Great MCAT.  I helped him write his essays (I work in healthcare).  Boom.  He got in.  We finished the applications in a weekend.  He was admitted from a small, christian undergrad college (that I guarantee you haven't heard of).   He's now in residency at a great program.  [/quote]

I know - Hopkins is so diverse they graduated a female doctor who was doing female circumcisions in Michigan. That’s true diversity for you. 
https://www.google.co.jp/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/ritarubin/2017/04/14/doctor-charged-with-female-genital-mutilation-has-published-research-overseen-residents/amp/

Nephew had dreams of med school and went free to a low level school to save money. His education was meh and his MCAT’s are not that great. 
Also, he had this same crazy teacher twice (no other choice), each time receiving a low grade that he thought was unjust but he had no recourse. He is now dreaming of PA school.[/quote]

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