<p>UMichigan has a 60% acceptance rate</p>
<p>ummm. i know uw madison and u of m twin cities have excellent grad med schools</p>
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<p>Uh, considering that the national rate is about 50%, I don't know that a 60% rate is all that much to brag about.</p>
<p>I'm not bragging, I'm just telling.........</p>
<p>It is pretty good considering that U-M doesn't screen any of its candidates. So if you had a 2.0 and a 24 on the MCAT, no one will stop you from applying. Also, it is a public school, and 60 percent is pretty darn good for that.</p>
<p>the key is that they don't screen. So - at least in my opinion - the private schools have artificially high placement rates and you get a lot of conflicts of interest if you are on the borderline between your school wanting to brag about it's placement rate and your true competitiveness in the application process.</p>
<p>I really don't think anybody screens... Apparently Hopkins has a pretty mild screening in place, but aside from that, I really cannot believe that any school screens its kids. I really don't think anybody does that.</p>
<p>Miami (OH) has a screening process....dunno if it gets enforced harshly or anything but I know they do cause their admissions reps used to come to our HS every year....</p>
<p>Theres got to be SOMETHING going on in the schools where they claim 80+ acceptance rates into med....or maybe its just that they're good schools really preparing their premeds, i dunno</p>
<p>Any school that gives committee letters is screening.</p>
<p>To the extent that they actually ban their kids from applying? I don't think so. And at that point, then committees aren't going to boost their numbers by writing bad letters.</p>
<p>No, I think the schools (take Harvard) where they get 90% of their kids into med school really do just get 90% of their kids into med school.</p>
<p>I think that the high acceptance rate is more a function of how strong the students are at Harvard and Yale and such schools. If you start off with such a strong pool in the first place, of course you're going to have a great acceptance rate. </p>
<p>The school is less important than your performance. Some schools may make it easier on you by helping you with better advising/collecting your LORs, but in the end, it is really up to you. I agree with BigRed; anyone can get into any med school from any undergrad. </p>
<p>If you have the capacity to go to Harvard, you will go there (provided you work hard) from ANYWHERE.</p>
<p>obviously the best choice for you is the university of wisconsin-madison. Why? </p>
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<li><p>Cheapest. Assuming you don't get sweet loans from a private school. Med school is hella expensive</p></li>
<li><p>Apply for the med scholars program and other things that will help your studies. I personally don't feel that you will have a "leg up" on med school applicants, simply because I know a bazillion bio/chem/pre med types here and the ones with the good GPAs/MCATs are going to great medical schools (UChicago for example). </p></li>
<li><p>Wisconsin has research opps that will match almost any school in the nation. These, along with the ability to work at the UW hospital, will help any med school app.</p></li>
<li><p>That 51% acceptance rate into UW Med is sweet.</p></li>
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the private schools have artificially high placement rates and you get a lot of conflicts of interest if you are on the borderline between your school wanting to brag about it's placement rate and your true competitiveness in the application process.
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<p>Correction - the private schools THAT SCREEN may have artifically high placement rates. Yet plenty of private schools, notably most of the famous ones, do not screen . For example, I have it on excellent authority that Harvard and MIT do not screen.</p>
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I think that the high acceptance rate is more a function of how strong the students are at Harvard and Yale and such schools. If you start off with such a strong pool in the first place, of course you're going to have a great acceptance rate. </p>
<p>The school is less important than your performance. Some schools may make it easier on you by helping you with better advising/collecting your LORs, but in the end, it is really up to you. I agree with BigRed; anyone can get into any med school from any undergrad. </p>
<p>If you have the capacity to go to Harvard, you will go there (provided you work hard) from ANYWHERE.
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<p>I wish that were true. But it doesn't explain the large discprecancy of placement between HYP (about 90%), and MIT (about 75%). Surely we can all agree that MIT students are just as qualified as HYP students. So why is it that MIT students have such problems getting into med-school, relative to HYP students?</p>
<p>Grade deflation.</p>
<p>Bring this topic back from the grave lol.</p>
<p>I saw it on google when searching for NU's pre-med admit rate into med schools. I think 55% seems really low for Northwestern and 90% is waaay too high.</p>
<p>1.) No, because MIT kids who get admitted somewhere have higher mean GPAs. So the simple answer is wrong.</p>
<p>2.) No, please don't. Use this one if you must:</p>
<p>Then why is it so hard for MIT kids to get into Med schools?</p>
<p>It's not grades, because MIT kids who get admitted actually have higher grades. It's not the MCAT, because MIT kids who get admitted actually have higher MCAT scores.</p>
<p>At this point anything else is speculation.</p>
<p>I see.</p>
<p>Well, posts #21 to #24 made me laugh out loud on that thread you sent me.</p>
<p>Are you serious? I have so many friends at MIT that told me that having a good GPA at MIT is really hard and only the most extreme hardworking asian girls are premed at MIT. I'm sorry but I've asked countless MIT undergrads and they've said the same thing about grade deflation.</p>