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<p>I am pretty proud of the fact that the number I quoted is so close to the number sakky actually looked up. (And he is definitely a very experienced member on this board, with 11196 posts under his belt.) But I admit it is kind of silly to quote what I wrote myself.</p>
<p>However, I believe the number at H should be much higher as I heard a couple of years ago that there were about 600 kids (out of the class size of about 1600) who took the introduction to life science class there; most of them may be aspiring premeds. (This was before they decided to break up the biology into many “sub-concentrations.”) Also, their engineering program may not have such a strong pull as compared to MIT’s. I wonder what the premed attrition rate is at H.</p>
<p>I just read sakky’s post #42. I agree with him on what he wrote in his last paragraph. Looking at the same issue from another point of view, if only the top 5% of biology majors apply to medical schools, their admission rate will likely be much higher.</p>
<p>Maybe only the top few percents of Classics majors who also happen to be good at sciences to some extent would apply to medical schools but maybe as many as 80 (or even close to 90?) percents of bio majors apply to medical schools.</p>