<p>i’ve never seen columbia-specific stats though…however the numbers are just a huge gimmick…there is only so much your school can do for you when applying to med school…essentially if you have a high GPA, a solid MCAT, sufficient ECs and a passion for medicine you will get in. i dont know anything about duke’s procedures but i would be extremely wary about an undergrad that tries to flaunt numbers such as those in the pdf you posted because they might make you jump through ridiculous hoops before you apply or prevent/discourage you from applying. nothing of the sort happens at columbia though and the premed committee, though they will give you honest advice, will support your application regardless of how they feel you’ll do</p>
<p>In response to Shraf, I am a recent Duke graduate and current medical student at Yale. I didn’t experience any discouragement from my premed advisors or “jumping through ridiculous hoops”. In fact, I was encouraged to apply to more competitive programs than I had originally planned. I don’t think the Duke premed office has any intentions to flaunt the achievements of Duke students; instead, the data is there to give Duke premeds a good background on their predecessors’ successes and failures at certain schools. For instance, University of Washington rarely accepts people from out-of-state as can be seen by the data.</p>
<p>As to eatsalot, I can’t say how well Columbia prepares its premed students, but Duke does a fine job! Science classes are top notch, and professors really care so much about their students. If you do go to Duke, take a class with Dr. Armaleo (he’s popular in the Biology department).</p>
<p>Thanks so much! What you say about the University of Washington concerns me though… I really, REALLY want to go to Stanford for med school (didn’t get in the first time :(), but according to the data, 0 Duke students were accepted. Do you think that means that Stanford has a preference as well? Should I go to Berkeley instead if I want to come back to the west coast for med school? Or Columbia? (I know that I shouldn’t choose a school based off of simple med school acceptances or whatever, but I love living in CA and I want to come back LOL).</p>
<p>This is tougher for me to choose than I thought it would be ahah. Sighh</p>
<p>I don’t know which year that data is from, but I know two Dukies who are currently first-year med students at Stanford. Considering that Stanford has a tiny medical school class (~90 people?), I think that’s pretty good.</p>
<p>You can try to find data from other years. I think they used to post data from the past 5 or 6 years. I think Harvard accepted 14 people one year, and like 4 the next…so admissions do vary. Are you a California resident? Because that factors into things as well. If you are thinking of California medical schools, UCSF is also pretty nice.</p>