Anonymous wrote:Why do you even want to go to Harvard? Nobody cares what medical school their doctor attended. Usually they don't even know.

High achievers themselves want to go to best programs.

May be not for flu or botox but certainly for cancer or heart issues.

Anonymous wrote:Why do you even want to go to Harvard? Nobody cares what medical school their doctor attended. Usually they don't even know.

Average Joe won't but most educated people with good healthcare policies do check where their doctor did their schooling and training.

Most years Harvard accepts most applicants from Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Duke, Brown, U Penn, Amherst, Williams, Rice, Dartmouth, CIT, Vanderbilt, U Michigan, UC Berkeley and Cornell.

Its not they don't accept any applicants from schools with low ranking and high acceptance rate but odds are really really low and applicant has to be extraordinarily qualified and exceptionally lucky AND likely top four minority (black, Hispanic, Native American, military veteran).

Harvard is the feeder for Harvard

Why do you even want to go to Harvard? Nobody cares what medical school their doctor attended. Usually they don't even know.

Which colleges produce the most medical school applicants?

According to the AAMC, these schools produced the largest number of medical school applicants during the 2022 application cycle:

University of California–Los Angeles: 1,195

University of Texas at Austin: 993

University of Florida: 860

University of Michigan–Ann Arbor: 824

University of California–Berkeley: 735

University of California–San Diego: 646

University of Georgia: 591

Texas A&M University: 579

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 541

The Ohio State University: 522

Although many of the above institutions are top-ranked schools, what’s perhaps more relevant is that they’re all large public institutions that produce many medical school applicants by virtue of their size. Unfortunately, this list doesn’t tell us much about each school’s yield (i.e., the success rate of its applicants).

Undergrad doesn’t matter for Med school. And if anything, Med School only matters so much for residency choice. My best friend went to a college in the top 50, a med school barely ranked in the top 100 and ended up in Ophthalmology, which is a fairly competitive speciality.

Yep, getting into Havard Medical School is like getting hit by a lightening bolt. They'll take maybe 2-3 kids from a place like Penn or Duke. You'll likely have better luck coming from a no-name undergrad where you are the only applicant to Harvard.

My spouse went to med school at Hopkins and the "feeders" had maybe 2-5 kids in the class. Then there were 50+ universities/colleges with one kid represented.

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Anonymous wrote:You sounds hopelessly unrealistic, TBH.

+1 medical school is incredibly hard to get into even for great candidates, most people say thank god if they get in at all. No one should be laser focused on Harvard medical school before undergrad. truly nuts in my opinion and based on my experience with siblings going to medical school.

If you're willing to donate enough to get your name put on a wing at Brigham and Women's you can laser focus on Harvard. Otherwise, just be happy if they get in anywhere

Anonymous wrote:You sounds hopelessly unrealistic, TBH.

+1 medical school is incredibly hard to get into even for great candidates, most people say thank god if they get in at all. No one should be laser focused on Harvard medical school before undergrad. truly nuts in my opinion and based on my experience with siblings going to medical school.

You sounds hopelessly unrealistic, TBH.

Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore as well

Historically it’s been Harvard, Stanford, Duke, Princeton

Which schools score highest percentage (not numbers because larger schools send more students so probably have higher number of admits) of seats at Harvard Medical School?