<p>I was wondering if anyone on this board knows Brown's pre-med acceptance rate into medical school? (Acceptance into med school on their first try, that is.)</p>
<p>I've heard 90% thrown around but that's from other CCers. I don't think the info is available online.</p>
<p>Thanks norcalguy; I'll give them a call tomorrow.</p>
<p>While you're calling them, make sure you ask them about premed screening. They'll deny it -- everybody does -- but poke around a little. As a quick proxy, check to see how many students apply to medical school and compare that against the proportions from, say, Duke.</p>
<p>I'm willing to bet quite a bit that Brown doesn't do any screening. But it never hurts to make sure.</p>
<p>It's 83% according to the info session I went to a few months ago.</p>
<p>83% is a perfectly respectable number presuming -- as I am pretty sure is the case -- they do no screening.</p>
<p>I'm not the biggest fan of Brown in general (it's not a real school!) but even I concede that it's almost certainly just fine for premeds.</p>
<p>don't go knocking brown just cuz you're bitter about having had to take distribution and gen ed requirements.
:)</p>
<p>Brown is, I'm sure, a wonderful place to be a premed. We'll leave it at that. :)</p>
<p>what type of med schools do premeds from brown get into?</p>
<p>You guys also have to consider that most of the people that end up going to duke, brown (or any of the other ivies) most likely have really good gpa's and will score well on the mcat. This give a exceptional high chance that they will have a high acceptance rate to medical school than someone that went to a top public. The school you go to doesn't make you get into medical school, its what you prove that you can do at that university that will get you into medical school.</p>
<p>students from brown get into all the best med schools in droves (Harvard, UCSF, Penn, Columbia, etc.) with pretty minimal stress during the undergrad years and the opportunity to really distinguish themselves with a unique course of study (open curriculum)</p>
<p>One thing that I've been thinking about is that at Brown, everyone's so ridiculously smart, it must be hard to get the requisite A's in Pre-med, versus a non-Ivy/non-top LAC. Is this necessarily the case?</p>
<p>... it would only be the case if Brown gave out the same proportion of A's as the other school you were thinking about.</p>
<p>So, no.</p>
<p>ACCEPTANCES # Applicants, Accepted, Not Accepted, % Accepted
Brown (2004, 2005) 237, 219, 18, 92%
Nationally 2005 35799, 16773, 19026, 46.8%</p>
<pre><code> SCI GPA Overall GPA
</code></pre>
<p>All Brown Applicants 3.57 3.66
Accepted App 3.61 3.69
Not Accepted App 3.00 3.20
National Average Accep 3.56 3.62
National Average/All 3.37 3.48</p>
<p>Thanks for those great stats river2. A 92% acceptance rate is the highest acceptance rate I've heard of (2nd highest is Rice, which I think is 89%)</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity:
Does Brown "weed out" applicants? (I assume the answer is no)
Does Brown screen applicants? (again, I assume no)
How does the average Brown med school applicant's MCAT scores compare to the national average of all those who take it and national average of those admitted into med schools?</p>
<p>And, just for fun... Is there any college that has a higher acceptance rate into med school than Brown's 92% (not counting schools that screen and guaranteed/accelerated med programs)? Just curious.</p>
<p>1.) More importantly, the GPAs are nice and low, (low is good) especially in the context of Brown as an overall school.</p>
<p>2.) How big is Brown? Assuming that they don't cannibalize each other, it's ever-so-slightly better to go to a school with more premeds. 118's not a huge number, but it might be because Brown is small in the first place.</p>
<p>3.) I think the 2005 national numbers are substantially optimistic relative to current conditions. Rumors are flying that 45K applied this year.</p>
<p>4.) It's not a real school! :p</p>
<p>Brown has a lot of grade inflation, in 2005
A - 46.7%
B - 24.0%
C - 4.6%
I/Abs/Msg - 0.7%
NC - 2.6%
S - 21.3
Unresolved - 0.1%</p>
<p>river2, where are you finding this information about Brown? I just browsed through Brown's web page but could not find the information you posted</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>in 2006,
A - 48.9%
B - 22.4%
C - 4.2%
I/Abs/Msg - 0.3%
NC - 2.7%
S - 21.4%
Unresolved 0.1%</p>