What are the top undergraduate colleges for medical school admissions?

Answer 1

it depends on what your goals are concerning medical school. If your super bright and aiming for a top tier med school then you should aim for a top flight undergrad school, as long as you can do well when you get there. If your not really aiming for a Yale / Harvard or John Hopkins type school and just want to go to a decent med school then you don't have to be that picky. Make sure the school you are going to go to has solid biology and chemistry classes because those will be the most critical classes for you in preparing for the MCAT.

It can also be of benefit to go to the undergraduate school that's part of the medical school you want to attend. If you do that you can be assured that your undergrad education will give you what the schools med school expect you to have. It also means that your assured of the med school's admissions staff being familiar with how fitting your undergrad education is.

But on the flip side, you may discover that you don't want to be a doctor by the time you graduate so don't plan your whole life out when you get out of high school. Its not uncommon for people to switch majors and head off in directions they never expected.

Answer 2

The Association of American Medical Colleges

(http://www.aamc.org/data/facts/2006/race.htm)

has answered this question by looking at the data several different ways.

Table 14: Undergraduate Institutions Producing the Most Medical School Applicants
Black or African American Applicants
Native American (American Indian, Alaskan Native) Applicants
Hispanic Applicants
Mexican American Applicants
Puerto Rican Applicants
Asian Applicants
White Applicants

Answer 3

I'm gonna throw a couple out there... I'm actually in chemical engineering, but I've heard these names...

Tufts University and Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Science (MCPHS)