<p>Princeton: 3.5
Dartmouth: 3.5
MIT: 3.5
Johns Hopkins: 3.6
Duke: 3.6
Michigan: 3.6
Harvard: 3.6
Stanford: 3.6
UC Irvine: 3.6
WUSTL: 3.6
UCLA: 3.6
UC Berkeley: 3.6
U of Florida: 3.7</p>
<p>fixed. </p>
<p><em>essentially, this means nothing</em></p>
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UCBChE, first of all, it means quite a bit: if the GPA differs by 0.1 and you take 40 classes in your college career, that means 12 of your classes have their grades changed to a B+ from A- or vice versa. In addition, the GPA of a student from Stanford on average is about 3.5-3.6 while that of UCB is probably 3.2-3.3.</p>
<p>^ Bah! It means med schools accept roughly the same caliber student no matter what undergrad you attend. You need a B++ to A- average.</p>
<p>Can anyone name sources for the claims made in the first 5-6 posts?</p>
<p>Not saying they are false, just want to know where everyone is getting these rankings.</p>
<p>I’m having a hard time finding a list or comparison between undergrad schools/programs for med. school acceptance rates.</p>
<p>How does one compare any of these schools strictly on this basis alone?
(I ask especially because I am making a decision influenced by this information.)</p>
<p>It could just be that I’m not searching hard enough, or clueless as to where.</p>
<p>Either way, any sources would be greatly appreciated!</p>
<p><em>head banging</em></p>
<p>This is stupid.</p>
<p>Because of this:
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<p>Alexandre pretty much nailed it on the head.</p>
<p>At WashU apparently everyone in the premed program last year got into one of their top 3 choices. Maybe there is a catch to that, because it seems incredible</p>
<p>@limabeans: Pomona, as Anonymous91 mentioned, does not weed out premeds and still manages a 90% acceptance rate.
Rice boasts a similar rate, but I’m not sure whether they have any kind of screening process.</p>
<p>I’d be more interested in the average MCAT score for each school really. Percentages mean nothing and it doesn’t tell you which school they went to (Hopkins Med or Caribbean school).</p>
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<p>Not exactly. When I went to Pomona, there were about 150 pre-meds in the freshman class. By the time I was a senior, there were 10 females and about 15 males left who applied to Med School. Out of the females, 8 got in. 80% acceptance rate for women! But only if you don’t count how many of them switched to pre-Law, Art and English majors.</p>
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<p>I am skeptical of such statements. Many pre-meds, at Pomona, Rice and elsewhere, weed THEMSELVES out due to poor grades, loss of interest, change in plans, etc. The number of students who actually end up applying to medical school represents a minute fraction of the incoming students who originally declared their pre-med intentions. If you read any pre-med internet forums, the consensus is that the same student has a better chance of getting accepted to med school from his or her state flagship than a top 25 university or LAC. Why? </p>
<p>Less competition for grades and research opportunities. Same MCAT. </p>
<p>Not to mention, medical schools prefer undergraduate diversity in their student body. It’s a myth that so-called pre-med schools (WUSTL, JHU, etc.) give students a leg up on the med school admissions process. You only hear about the successful med school applicants. What about the kid who got a D in orgo? Top colleges don’t boast about him or her.</p>
<p>Medical school acceptance rates will closely track entering SAT scores, because stronger students will get into med school wherever they go. If there were some kind of controlled study, that might be useful.</p>
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<p>This post deserves to be re-read. Not even funny how correct Alexandre is. Emory, for example, does not discourage ANYONE from applying to medical school… How do I know this? its med school acceptance rate stats… my friend had a 2.9 GPA and 28 MCAT and he was helped a lot by Emory… On their website, they break down the med school acceptance rates by numbers… overall, it is around 60 % or so which is significantly lower than its peers. BUT, the med school acceptance rate is around 85% for people with 30+MCAT and like 3.4 GPA. Don’t buy the “School X has 90% med school acceptance rate and does not weed out ANY applicants” … A sub 3.0 GPA and sub 30 MCAT med school applicant will have a harder time getting into med school no matter which school he or she comes from.</p>
<p>Top Ten Pre-Med Colleges By Number of Med School Applications
UCLA - 611
UC Berkeley - 536
U Michigan 522
UT Austin - 391
UF Gainesville - 385
UCSD 345
Harvard 307
UW Madison 305
UVA 303
UIUC 300
Stanford - 300</p>
<p>limabeans…</p>
<p>I have a dumb question…</p>
<p>Is that ranking measuring the “top 10” by listing who has the most students who apply to med school? or who get accepted?</p>
<p>If so, wouldn’t % of acceptances be more revealing? </p>
<p>I also wonder if that other data can be found with more recent info. That post is from 2006.</p>
<p>^^^^^^^</p>
<p>???</p>
<p>Anyone know how students from University of Miami (Florida) or Washington and Lee fair in the medical school application process? Bio student… just entering undergrad</p>