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<p>It’s actually close to 95%. Unfortunately, they don’t publish that info publicly, but if you don’t trust me, you can ask a Harvard undergrad to verify the stat folders that the Harvard premed House advisors maintain. </p>
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<p>We are comparing MIT to a regularly ‘balanced’ school of which Harvard can serve as a stand-in. The issue then is not whether most engineering students would rather be engineers rather than doctors, for the same is true of every major other than biology: the typical humanities major doesn’t want to be a doctor either. </p>
<p>The real question is, who is more likely to want to be a doctor - a humanities major or an engineering major, and I suspect it is the latter, not least of which is the fact that engineers complete many of the premed requirements as an inherent part of their major. Hence, it is not much more work for them to finish the rest. Compare that to a humanities major for whom the entire premed sequence poses an additional burden. MIT probably has just as few humanities students as Harvard has engineering students. </p>
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<p>Sure we can, because we can use MIT’s peer schools as proxies. When schools like Harvard , Yale, and Princeton can boast of 90+% admit rates, despite the fact that there is little discernable difference in quality amongst the student bodies, and MIT is only ~75%, then clearly something is amiss, with the difference in grading standard being the most likely culprit.</p>