Do Med Schools prefer applicants from their undergrad?

<p>out of the 6 interviews I actually went to (turned down 4), I got rejected by 2 of the schools - i think.</p>

<p>Oh, maybe MSTPs are different?</p>

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I see a LOT of profiles in MDApplicants with rejections post-interview …</p>

<p>If memory serves, I went back through afterwards and marked any school where I didn’t eventually get in off the waitlist as a rejection. I wonder if other students do the same.</p>

<p>Alternatively, I’ve never seen an admissions committee actually SAY my philosophy. Maybe I’m wrong. But anecdotally it always struck me as very rare, and I do know that many medical schools have to fill up to half their class from the waitlist.</p>

<p>i think MSTP is probably different. In the two adcom meetings I sat in on there were plenty of post interview rejections.</p>

<p>I’m pretty sure that there are still a few schools I applied to in the 09-10 cycle that still haven’t sent me a pre-interview or post waitlist rejection letter yet.</p>

<p>That is partially correct. D. was wait listed at 2 places after interview. These happened be known to wait list a very high percentages though. In addition, D. indicated that she did not want to attend there because of her personal preferences, (not because she was waitlisted), she simply said that she did not see herself attending there priamarily because she did not fit into their student body (according to her perception). So, she withdrew right after interviews. We do not know if they would reject or accept her as they wait list higher than normal number.</p>

<p>I was doing some research on California</p>

<p>Number of applicants - 5326
<a href=“https://www.aamc.org/download/321460/data/2012factstable3.pdf[/url]”>https://www.aamc.org/download/321460/data/2012factstable3.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Matriculants - 2268</p>

<p><a href=“https://www.aamc.org/download/321462/data/2012factstable4.pdf[/url]”>https://www.aamc.org/download/321462/data/2012factstable4.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Stanford University School of Medicine CA 43
University of California San Francisco CA 139
Keck School of Medicine at USC CA 126
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA CA 160
University of California San Diego CA 113
University of California Davis School of Medicine CA 94
University of California, Irvine School of Medicine CA 100
Loma Linda University School of Medicine CA 79
University of California Los Angeles CA 160</p>

<p>There are 1289 seats in Cal medical schools from what I can see and in 2010, only 1014 were in state.</p>

<p>So 55% of all California residents are going to medical schools out of state.</p>

<p>I think you counted UCLA twice. The question as to whether medical schools prefer applicants from their own undergraduate counterpart is a complicated question. If the undergraduate school is excellent the answer is that there is some advantage if you are one of the top applicants from that school. There is a known track record and one understands the gpa and classes and there is some familiarity with those who write LOR’s. There is also high yield as most students wish to attend a medical school close to home or undergraduate college. On the other hand medical schools do not want to be over populated with “same” students so there are generally only a certain amount of students one wants to take from ones own undergraduate school. So if you are not “top” enough from your college it may become a disadvantage and a similar applicant from another excellent undergraduate school may be preferred. Generally medical schools draw most of their students from the top colleges in their general area. State medical schools draw mostly from their own state residents. There may not be much of an advantage If the medical school does not have an excellent undergraduate counterpart but there are many excellent undergraduate colleges in their draw area.</p>

<p>Yes…they are out of California and having hard time driving in a snow.</p>

<p>Regarding: familiarity with LOR writers,</p>

<p>In DS’s case, now we are pretty sure that med school adcom knew DS’S very last additional LOR writer very well.</p>

<p>DS really did not request him to write it. He offered to write a quick one for him. On one day out of blue, he asked DS “what is your status now? Let me bat for you.”</p>