"Prospective students applying to medical schools can expect to face stiff competition. There were more than 50,000 applicants who attempted to get into a U.S. medical school during the 2017-2018 school year, and only 43.1 percent of them were accepted, according to admissions statistics from the Association of American Medical Colleges.
But top-ranked medical schools where incoming students typically have near-perfect test scores and grades aren’t necessarily the institutions that have the most applicants." …