[quote=AN] If you’re a MD, I don’t think people care if you got your pre-med at Harvard or at SDSU, as long as you got your MD at Harvard.[/quote]
As someone who’s been to medical school at a top 5 program, I will promise you that it is a MILLION times easier to get into Harvard Medical School if you come from Harvard undergrad, versus SDSU undergrad. The only way I can see “SDSU to Harvard Med School” happening is if the applicant is an underrepresented minority.
In fact, I know hundreds of doctors (friends, classmates, co-residents, co-fellows, etc), and I have NEVER met one who went to SDSU undergrad. UCSD, absolutely yes. SDSU, no. I’m not saying it’s impossible, but I just haven’t met that person yet.
It’s going to be swimming upstream to get into any med school… and it is harder to get from a lower tier medical school into a “good residency” etc. Does any of this matter? Perhaps not. It depends on the person’s goals within medicine. But if your kid wants to be a doctor, my sincere advice is for them to go to the “best” undergraduate school that they can, preferably one where they can get near-straight A’s.
