<p>I’m not really concerned either way, my d has already been accepted to a medical school.</p>
<p>1) Anybody know how good Boston College ,Tufts, NYU, and Georgetown pre-med
programs are?
2) how much percent of them get admitted to medical schools?</p>
<p>1) All great options
2) Doesn’t matter, probably above average though.</p>
<p>how much percent is average? 40 or 50%?</p>
<p>Davidson College has a 100% acceptance rate into med school. Comes at a price, tho, because DC is notorious for hard grading. Am personal friends with the Harvard grad MD who runs the MD/PhD program at Emory University who says Davidson grads are extremely well respected by admissions officers.</p>
<p>Anybody knows the acceptance rate of Boston College, Tufts, and NYU?</p>
<p>48% or so is average.
Davidson doesn’t have a 100% acceptance rate to medical school, and a hard grading scale tends to hurt pre-meds not help.</p>
<p>BC is in the 70+% range, but it also has a faculty Committee that screens kids in/out…</p>
<p>I suggest mmmcdowe do some more research on Davidson. Start with this. [Davidson</a> College News Archives](<a href=“http://www2.davidson.edu/jbtest/news00.aspx?newsid=1841]Davidson”>http://www2.davidson.edu/jbtest/news00.aspx?newsid=1841)
90 to 100%.
The Davidson GPA gets a .5 point bump, per the head of the MD PHD program at Emory.</p>
<p>I suggest that anyone who believes any school gets 100% of their pre-meds into medical school needs to do a LOT more research. Davidson is an excellent school (and one of my favorites) but Davidson does NOT have a stellar reputation for pre-med success (because of their admittedly famous grade deflation). Maybe HubbellGardner will come back and 'splain some GPA things to ya. Like how that grade deflation thang works IRL, regardless of MCAT success. I do agree that savvy adcomm’s will give Davidson kids a bit of a break, but .5? That’s just …naive.</p>
<p>For those unaware, schools play big games with acceptance stats as they know some folks will not be critical enough to delve deeper into the process. Some include all med schools, allo and osteopathic, and foreign. Some have a nebulous “health professions” stat, some don’t include any but “endorsed candidates” in their stats while some include all. Some include those who get in on their 3rd try. </p>
<p>I’m positive Davidson prepares students very well , but don’t accept that 100% nonsense. From any school.</p>
<p>As to what Emory told you, who should I e-mail to get a list of who gets what GPA bump, Dr. Parkos ? <a href=“MD/PhD | Emory School of Medicine”>MD/PhD | Emory School of Medicine; I’d sure like to see that list. It would be a great help to students here and on sdn.</p>
<p>" For the past ten years, under Putnam’s leadership, the college has enjoyed an exceptionally high rate of acceptance of its students into medical schools. While there are just 16,000 slots in the nation’s 126 medical schools per year for an average of 33,000 applicants, Davidson students are accepted at a rate of ninety to one-hundred percent."</p>
<p>Believe what you want. Contact whomever you wish.</p>
<p>^I’d defend myself, but curms done a good job. I’ll just say that Emory is one school, even if they do get a .5 boost there that doesn’t mean it is true everywhere.</p>
<p>More importantly, 90% isn’t 100.</p>
<p>Just need a name, Georgia. I’d hate to pick the wrong one and post erroneous information. Remember, I’m a Davidson fan, and I was very complimentary to Davidson in my post. </p>
<p>IIRC, Juniata College in Pa. was claiming 100% acceptance to med school when my D was looking at UG schools. (I like that school, too.) That’s when I stumbled on the “statistics fairy” some schools use in their advertising.</p>
<p>Because liberal arts colleges generate so few applicants, it is easy for them to manipulate their acceptance numbers. The difference b/w 80% and 100% when you’re talking about 20 senior applicants is just 3-4 applicants. It’s very easy for them to <em>nudge</em> a few of the weaker applicants into taking a year off (which isn’t a bad idea necessarily but something that would improve the acceptance rate over a larger school like Berkeley that can’t be looking over the shoulder of each of its applicants).</p>
<p>The most famous example of this is Swarthmore which boasted a 100% med school acceptance rate from its senior applicants…all 6 of them (compared with 40+ alumni applicants).</p>
<p>Boston College seems to have a high acceptance rate no matter how they screen in/out
students. What about Tufts, NYU, and Georgetown university accepatance rate into med school?</p>
<p>Okay. I will accept the fact that colleges manipulate med school acceptance numbers to their own advantage. After all, it was either Mark Twain or Will Rogers who said, “There are lies, damn lies, and then there are statistics.” If any numbers can be trusted, however, I would tend to trust Davidson’s. My overall point is that Davidson has an incredibly successful pre-med program. The rigorous coursework, outstanding faculty support, premed advisement, personal attention, MCAT preparation, and application assistance make a huge difference. </p>
<p>Sorry. Not giving out the name of my point of contact at Emory. It was an off-the-record, face-to-face conversation in a social setting. If this diminishes the credibility of my earlier post in some people’s eyes, so be it. </p>
<p>Good luck on your decision.</p>
<p>how hard was it to get into Penn?</p>
<p>Ah, Davidson, those were the good old days. While I am reminiscing:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/davidson-college/172084-grades-davidson-current-students.html#post2143332[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/davidson-college/172084-grades-davidson-current-students.html#post2143332</a></p>
<p>Off-Topic </p>
<p>Hey, hg. Nice to “see” you. I was hoping you’d see the thread. </p>
<p>Back on topic</p>
<p>Yep. Grade deflation at your alma mater is pretty well-known to grad and professional schools. Do you believe it is adequately compensated for by most of the med schools, including those out of region?</p>
<p>hard to say. I was accepted to 4 schools with a 3.3 and all of my friends got accepted somewhere. However, it seemed to me that the ‘second or third tier’ medical schools(those ranked 30-90) seemed to give Davidson students more slak than the top tier schools. One of my close friends was the valedictorian of the class(no small feat at Davidson) and he ended up at the University of Chicago medical school. He got into a few other top schools, but was offered financial aid by Chicago. The acceptance rate of Davidson pre-meds who are successfully vetted by the pre-med cmte is indeed very high. But struggling pre-meds are given the 'come to Jesus" speech and may not end up applying-so all ‘acceptance’ rate numbers by any college must be looked at in that light.</p>