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Unfortunately, it doesn't work like that. Between two equally qualified students (same GPAs, paramedic experience, whatever), the student from the most prestigious school is going to get admitted. Given that the AMA has a lock on med schools and lots of qualified kids will be turned down. It's unfair, but that's how the world works.[/quote]

Not really, the top student at umcp will get in over the lowest at Yale. Also studies show that ivy kids have a really hard time being at the bottom of their class and somebody has to be on the bottom. That's how it actually work.[/quote]

But we aren't comparing the top UMD student to the bottom Yale student. We're comparing a single child's relative chances at medical school coming from Yale vs. a good state school.

Not sure what being unhappy about being in the bottom 50% has to do with anything.[/quote]

The top student at a UMD-level of school often has difficulties being admitted to graduate and professional programs.  By contrast, the "lowest at Yale" (1) is tough to identify, since very good schools do not publicly rank their students and Med-School admissions data assembly programs can only conjure estimates, and (2) are typically very strongly supported and assisted by their colleges.  At the university level, the more prestigious school always, always wins out, and experiences to the contrary are purely anecdotal.  
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