Admission Rate to Med School now 71 %?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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<p>Hey guys, I was just looking through the career services on the penn website and noticed that Penn is reporting a 71% acceptance rate into med school. Now, I know this is an excellent statidtic compared to the national average but for some reason I always thought Penn had a rate in the mid 80's. Please correct me if I'm wrong but this seems to be less than MIT and Stanford which generally are on the lower end at 75-ish.</p>

<p>btw, the link is: Career</a> Services, University of Pennsylvania</p>

<p>Just want to reiterate that I'm simply curious if the rate is lower than previous years thats all.</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>Hm if that is correct, then I am stunned. I had always been told it was in the mid 80% range as well.</p>

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<p>One of the factors contributing to it’s lower acceptance rate is probably the fact that Penn doesn’t prohibit anybody from applying. Many (elite) schools will not provide recommendations for students they don’t deem “qualified” to apply; they weed them out, essentially, and prevent them from applying. Penn allows everyone a chance.</p>

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<p>CAPA, can you give me some examples of schools that actually weed out applicants? The only school I thought did that was JHU.</p>

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<p>^yea, I thought all Ivys do not deter students from applying.</p>

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<p>I don’t know anything about those statistics, and unfortunately the career services website is being updated this week, so a lot of data/links are temporarily defunct. However, I can tell you that in general Penn’s placement is excellent, easily on par/slightly higher than its peers in the other professional domains (law and business), and I can’t imagine that its medical school acceptance rate is any worse.</p>

<p>According to poster Pennalum, who attends/attended medical school:

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<p>I don’t know how the rate could have been 71% last year, or how schools like Rice, JHU or Williams supposedly achieve 90%+ matriculation. Either the calculations are different, or they have a screening process, or some combination of the two. I’ll try to post more data as it becomes available.</p>

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<p>Johns Hopkins weeds out a lot of kids before they even get to orgo from what I’ve heard, but I’m sure plenty of other schools do too.</p>