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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child will be going to UVA. Got rejected from Ivies. What are we missing by not going to Ivies for pre-med. Outside of pre-med, do Ivies and other top schools create employers and other schools create employees[/quote]

Colleges ranked by percentage of undergraduates who go on to attend medical school:

2 Harvard
3 Yale
5 Brown
13 Penn
16 Princeton
23 Cornell
46 Columbia
84 UVA

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/adam.hearn4686/viz/TopFeederstoMedicalSchool/TopFeeders-Med5[/quote]

UVA has much bigger enrollment than any of these. Cream rises to the top.[/quote]

True--but you're taking the chance that your state school kid will be the cream.  It's not always the case.  Big pond, lots of fish.[/quote]

The No. 1 school, JHU is at 4%, It's still a pretty small number.[/quote]

No just NO. That data keeps getting shared on here. it is from linked-in or something it has nothing to do with reality. 
It is completely flawed data.

Look at published AMCAS tables or the schools themselves. At JHU, 470 undergrads applied to US medical schools for 2025 and 85% got in. 45% were from that senior year, the rest split between one gap and two gap years. Averaged over the years, 350-500 eventually apply to medical school from each graduating class of 1550, and 90% of them get in!
 That is NOT FOUR PERCENT.

Other top feeders are most of the ivies plus other top schools with medical schools such as Vanderbilt, Duke, WashU, Emory: They each supply 350-500 applicants to the US MD programs only(DO is not included) and have undergrad graduating classes of 1500 to 2400, or 15-35% of each graduating class.
They each report 80-93% success of their medical school applicants. 
UCLA had 1270 applicants to US Med schools, with an undergrad class of around 8500 per year or 15% which is the largest Public-school feeder overall and per capita in the country.
UVA had 478 applicants to US med schools for an undergrad class cohort of around 4100, 11%, which is well above average as far as med school feeder.

-Med admissions consultant again. [/quote]

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