<p>is there any statistical information regarding Emory's pre-meds getting into medical schools?
Also, I heard Emory pre-med's percentage of getting accepted to med school is only slightly above the national average, which would be around 50ish %....</p>
<p>I always thought Emory had good pre-med program and I'm starting to feel a bit disappointed =(</p>
<p>Yeah from what I've heard the pre-med program is somewhat controversial and that emory's own med school disagrees with how the college runs it, particularly the bio classes, so it would make sense that the pre-meds struggle getting into med schools. But that's based on what one pre-med with med school connections told me so I don't know how true it is.</p>
<p>you can see Emory pre-med statistics on the Career Center website; it lists acceptance rates in a chart based on MCAT/GPA. It also has a list of the top schools by which Emory students were accepted. True, Emory's overall med school acceptance rate is only slightly above average, but if you look at the key numbers on the chart (30+ MCAT & 3.5+ GPA), almost 90% of Emory applicants get into med school. Emory doesn't have a screening committee that forbids students from applying to med school (based on low science GPA, MCAT), a process which many other universities have; if Emory did have one, their statistics wouls be much higher.</p>
<p>And their pre-med curriculum (there's no pre-med "program") is great. Don't judge it based on the 20MCAT/2.5GPA students who couldn't get into med school.</p>
<p>ive heard that some of the other universities that its compared to doesnt forbid ppl to apply to med school. there was a lengthy discussion abt this on the premed forum. i havent heard the stuff abt the biology classes, can someone explain this to me. im curious...</p>
<p>although Emory has a great hospital system and medical school, it sucks for pre-med in comparison to other schools of its caliber (WashU, NU, Rice, Duke, Cornell, JHU, UChicago, etc.) Most of these have +80% matriculating into medschool. Emory barely 50%</p>
<p>I think some of this might be because at Emory, the percentage of pre-meds is a good bit higher than most schools, and pre-med seems to be the giant catch-all for people who aren't really sure what they're doing and are just going along the pre-med route to have some sort of goal. (I say this as one of those people.) It's almost a stereotype locally that if you go to Emory, you want to be a doctor.</p>
<p>I must agree. Either medicine or business but I still would not want to be in a place that has THAT much competition. Also, I dont think that this is true of others schools, say JHU where I would assume most go there intending to become doctors.</p>
<p>Also out of the 318 applying, that doesnt count those who were pre-med but did not apply. Does anyone know how many students graduate from Emory each year?</p>
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<p>So true..
In fact, I was at the hair salon the other day & I told my stylist that I got into Emory & she says ..."Oh that's wonderful! You want to be a doctor?"</p>
<p>aside from low 50% acceptance rate to med school, what kind of medical schools do emory students usually go? any top tier med school? harvard? JHU?</p>
<p>i just want to see if "quality" overcomes "quantity" :)
thnx</p>
<p>just to share my opinion, the acceptance rate is of no importance, since if a student IS super qualified, s/he will get into med school no matter how her/his undergrad school's general pre-med performance is...</p>
<p>and emory seems nice in terms of support for pre-med students. hopefully, they will start the medical school "committee" thing this coming fall...</p>
<p>Here is a good link
<a href="http://www.career.emory.edu/parents/pdf/PreHealth_Stats_Ann_Rpt_2008.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.career.emory.edu/parents/pdf/PreHealth_Stats_Ann_Rpt_2008.pdf</a></p>
<p>The data shows people get accepted to everywhere.</p>