i personally know professors

in medical school admission committee. A better college might give some advantage in other areas, but the pre-request is that that student has to have a really good gpa, regardless which college from. For example, if the medical school set 3.5 as the bar, even one got gpa of 4.0 from a very small college, he can still be considered. If a student got 3.2 from Harvard, unless he has some other very special things, he will not be considered further.