<p>I want to do biology; which school has the highest medical school acceptance rate...and also, is there "weeding out" in pre-med</p>
<p>cornell's is 78%, versus 50% nationally
for students with a 3.4+ GPA, it jumps to 89%</p>
<p>If you live in NY, CALS @ cornell bio might be cheaper, even though it's the same course.</p>
<p>so i can have below a 3.4 and still have nearly an 80% chance at med school...an american med school? do you know about stats for schools like washu or where i can find these stats?</p>
<p>i do not know about other schools, all I know is these stats were published in a cornell brochure I just got. 78% (89% w/ 3.4+ GPA) versus 50% nationally. Try the wash U forum, or call the school and ask.</p>
<p>thanks for the tip</p>
<p>Duke's acceptance rate is around 85%.</p>
<p>I wouldn't go to WashU.</p>
<p>why are people hating on washU so much?</p>
<p>also, is that 85% at duke for all pre-meds, and does duke do the "screening" of applicants (not letting lesser students even apply)</p>
<p>i would bet most of money on the people who get accepted with below a 3.4 to be engineers.</p>
<p>good point</p>
<p>People "hate on" WashU because it is not as good a school as it's ranking would indicate. It's still a good school but not in the same league as Duke or Cornell IMO.</p>
<p>I "hate" wash u too. It waitlisted me where as cornell saves my day. I actually spent more time on wash u app imo. I lived near St. louis for 2 years, my first two years in U.S</p>
<p>Wash u is 11th, cornell 14th according to USNEWs, but that source is not all accurate so i guess take a grain , no a shaker , of salt with those rankings. imo, Cornell easily beats washu in many aspects and should be top 10 on USNEWS, but that's not important.</p>
<p>Wash u med school is among the best, right?? I read somewhere , probably USNEWS , that the top three med schools are HMS, WASHU, and JHU, sort of like HYP are the three top overall national universities??ahh, the big three, but a top name only goes so far if it doesnt have any substance</p>
<p>First, we must be careful not to assume great premed programs simply on the basis of great med schools. There is no connection between WashU undergrad and WashU med school.</p>
<p>In research, WashU's med school is #3. </p>
<p>However, in primary care, WashU is only #46.</p>
<p>Okay, so there are usually NO CONNECTIONs between a uni's undergrad and grad schools. They sort of act like different entities then. Cornell has a med school too, the Weill Medical School . I suppose there isnt much of a connection either, if any at all. but is Weill more likely to accept Cornell premeds than say, some other uni's premeds, or it doesn't make any difference whatsoever? the cornell name doesn't influence any decision at at i suppose. </p>
<p>In Arizona, there are three big uni's , U of A, ASU, NAU, i learned from a U of A's medical camp session director that out of all three school's premeds applying to U of A med school, U of A actually accepts around 50% premeds from its own U of A undergraduates, ASU say 35% and NAU 15% (not all exact percentages of course , but the idea is there, btw ASU is bigger than U of A at least in undergrads). If that is TRUE, then it seems like favoritism to me or the director was wanting more future docs to graduate from U of A.</p>
<p>Public medical schools will heavily favor applicants from that state. Private medical schools function on a different level.</p>