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Med schools like their own students other factors being equal...if you can look at statistics for the ones she's interested in that will help her decision but it really comes down to qualifications and test scores when it comes to med school. 2 equally qualified students and the homegrown one might have the edge. A better quality student from another school still probably beats a lesser quality student from the home institution.I have absolutely no idea if going to the undergrad part of a university with a strong med school helps or not.
DD 1 is going as an undergrad at the same place as her first choice med school -- Wisconsin. What can I do, she loves Madison. Must be the snow.
There are a few advantages. For example, she sometimes shadows a doctor here who lets very few students shadow him. But, there are family ties.
Through school and family ties, she may know a few people on the acceptance committee. I don't know if that helps or not.
DD 3 asked me if she should attend an undergrad college that has a good med school in the university. I really have no idea at all.
My mother has a very close friend who used to be head of the Arkansas med school admissions committee, but he is 98 and in failing health.
Very wise of her.
It is interesting to see how things work. In some areas it is harder to get into a DPT program than med school. About 20 years ago, I spent a year as a visiting faculty member at the University of Central Arkansas, which had one of the very first DPT programs, IIRC. It was harder to get into than the U Arkansas Med School, depending on what county the applicant was from. I gather that is not so uncommon these days.