Duke grads going into Med School

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>what percentage of Duke grads get accepted into medical school ? specifically into Johns Hopkins, WASU, stanford, and Northwestern ?</p>

<p>Thank you</p>

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<p>Around 70%. Please don’t pay too much attention to these numbers. Most schools have pre-health committees these days. They “advise” marginal candidates away from the application process. If you include all those who wanted to be doctors, no school’s numbers are very pretty.</p>

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You know, this is rumored to happen quite a bit but I knew dozens or maybe even hundreds of premeds, including some who were pretty underqualified, and I never heard of anybody getting this advice. The worst I ever heard (which was pretty common) was to take a year off to build extracurriculars and improve the GPA.</p>

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<p>what percentage of Duke grads get accepted into medical school</p>

<p>this answer doesn’t really tell you anything. </p>

<p>It certainly doesn’t tell you what % of freshman pre-meds end up in med school. It won’t include the many students who start out as pre-meds and then fall away each semester leading up to app time.</p>

<p>What does a number tell you?</p>

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<p>Duke doesn’t prevent anyone from applying to med school. JHU and a few other schools do. As far as placement is concerned, Duke grads do exceedingly well. The overall acceptance rate for Duke applicants to med schools is something like 86%.</p>

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<p>That’s a mighty definitive statement regarding both Duke and JHU!</p>

<p>It used to be popular sport to vilify JHU when it was one of the few schools to have a pre-health committee. Now pretty much every top private school (including Duke) has one. It’s a red flag for medical schools, if you apply without the committee letter and your school has a committee. </p>

<p>I am pretty familiar with JHU’s committee process. They give their marginal applicants a plan to improve their application. If they follow through the plan and show the results, they can get back into the committee process. The net result at JHU is that some of those marginal applicants simply give up and move on. I am pretty sure it is the same at Duke also. If not, somebody like bluedevlimike can correct me. </p>

<p>The committees may be right in their assessment. Honestly, I would have preferred if the committees simply provide an honest assessment and let everybody apply. </p>

<p>Years ago, when I took my son to a campus visit to WashU, the guy who gave the presentation took a pot shot by proudly proclaiming “unlike other schools, we support all our applicants”. When I asked if that meant they gave everybody the same recommendation, he climbed down in a hurry and said that wasn’t the case. I guess support means different things to different folks.</p>