Acceptance rates to Med school - for traditional applicants (after BS or BA)

Pre-Med & Medical School Careers in Medicine
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<p>Hi All,</p>

<p>BUSM web site indicates 1.17% acceptance rate after Bachelors.</p>

<p>I am astounded at such a low rate of acceptance in MD programs.</p>

<p>Is this sort of usual across the board at all med schools? Please post acceptance rates at other schools for traditional entrants (after a bachelors degree).</p>

<p><a href="http://www.bumc.bu.edu/Dept/Content.aspx?DepartmentID=37&PageID=9622%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.bumc.bu.edu/Dept/Content.aspx?DepartmentID=37&PageID=9622&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Duke acceptance rate - approx 2%</p>

<p><a href="http://dukemed.duke.edu/AdmissionsFinancialAid/index.cfm?method=ProfileOfTheLastClass%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://dukemed.duke.edu/AdmissionsFinancialAid/index.cfm?method=ProfileOfTheLastClass&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>1.) Those are matriculants/applicants, not acceptances/applicants. So those aren't the acceptance rates, which at Duke is approx. double that. USN has the actual acceptance rates available.</p>

<p>2.) Those are for any particular school, of course. Obviously the rates of getting into a medical school at all are much better than that.</p>

<p>3.) Yeah, those are pretty typical. Maybe a little on the low side, but not dramatically so.</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.aamc.org/data/facts/2006/2006school.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.aamc.org/data/facts/2006/2006school.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>All the data for the 2006 application cycle.</p>

<p>There were 483148 total applications from 39108 applicants. Only 17370 matriculated. If you were to look at applications - it's only 3.5% of individual applications result in acceptance. But of course an applicant can send out many more than just one application.</p>