GT med school acceptance rate

Colleges and Universities A-Z Georgia Institute of Technology
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<p>I have not found much data coming from GT about med school acceptance rate.</p>

<p>Things I have "found" online(most of these were not from official GT data):</p>

<p>% of applicants that get into med school is a couple of percent higher than the natl. average.</p>

<p>~40% of BME students begin GT wanting to enroll into med school. Only ~15% get in.</p>

<p>100% PTFE major med school applicants get into med schools.</p>

<p>very hard classes are a hindrance to getting good gpa for med school.</p>

<p>Things I want to know/find:</p>

<p>Some of the med schools successful applicants get into.</p>

<p>If the "data" I mentioned above that I found online are true.</p>

<p>data about med school applicants coming from GT.</p>

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<p>I visited their pre-health site...It didn't have much.</p>

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<p>I would like to apply to med school later and am wondering whether GT is a good school to attend as a stepping stone to med. school.</p>

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<p>Some Stats:

  • Georgia tech has a 53% acceptance rate for all applicants(42% is the national average).
  • For Tech students who coordinate their efforts with the Office of Pre-Health Advising (OPHA), the acceptance rate is usually between 80-85%.
  • Approximately 140-200 students apply to medical school from Tech each year.
  • Approximately 15-20% of BME graduates enter medical school upon graduation. A larger percentage apply, and some do drop pre-med, but this is typical of all pre-med students regardless of major.
  • Georgia Tech typically has an average MCAT school of 32 (3 points above the national average of 29) Note: For 2008 the GT average was 31.
  • Although PTFE has recently had a 100% acceptance rate to medical school, keep in mind that the program is small/doesn’t have that many applicants so any statistic from that department (high or low) is not truly representative. With that said, choosing a certain major does not inherently increase your chances; choosing a major you enjoy enough to fully apply yourself is what increases your chances.</p>

<p>I’m not sure what you mean by “very hard classes.” The required classes for pre-med are not easy regardless of your major, and most tech pre-meds and accepted students major in BME, which is recognized as one of the hardest majors on campus. Obviously, it is possible to major in engineering and still get into medical school. You will need to aim for about a 3.6 GPA to be competitive, but keep in mind that the GPA weighting by medical school admissions committees is somewhat of a misnomer. Medical schools place more weight on what could be referred to as “academic performance” than GPA. In other words, they are looking to see you challenged yourself and performed well with courses and hours that indicate you can handle the rigor of medical school. Given Tech’s reputation for rigor and the fact that most graduates take very demanding courses you can, on average, get a lower GPA from tech and still be just as competitive, which is indicated by the fact that tech’s GPA for accepted medical students is below the national average while their acceptance rate exceeds the national average by 10%.</p>

<p>The majority of Tech students go to the Medical College of Georgia and Emory University School of Medicine, followed by Johns Hopkins, Duke, and Vanderbilt. Tech also has students attending Mercer, Morehouse, University of Chicago (Keck), Tulane, Washington University in St.Louis, and Harvard, among others.</p>

<p>Some aspects of Tech that help prepare you for medical school include:
*the development of analytical expertize, time management skills, (diligence, initiative, and drive), a firm grasp on technology, Problem Based Learning (PBL), Senior Design/Capstone experiences, easy access to research, etc…</p>

<p>Other things to keep in mind about tech and pre-med:
Georgia Tech has a office specifically set up for Pre-Health advising which offers the following:
*a knowledgeable advisor and personal assistant
*appointments, walk-in hours, and email services for any questions you have
*a wide array of books/information on numerous health schools
*workshops concerning letters of evaluation, personal statements, and applications
*mock interviews
*a website/T-Square site/list serve
*a pre-health conference
*a chapter of the American Medical Student Association(AMSA)
*aresearch option and Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program(UROP)
*easy access to Grady Hospital, Good Samaritan Clinic, and various other hospitals and clinics where you can obtain experience/get a job/volunteer time. Tech also has many clubs that make volunteering easy. One popular one is MOVE: [MOVE</a> :: Home](<a href=“http://www.move.gatech.edu/]MOVE”>http://www.move.gatech.edu/)</p>

<p>As an anecdote about the Georgia Tech Pre-Med experience, Robert J. Beaulieu, B.S. Biomedical Engineering, Emory University School of Medicine Class of 2011 had the following to say: “Attending Georgia Tech was the single factor that best prepared me for success in medical school. That’s not to say it was the only one, but rather that the style of education, the level of scientific inquiry and the expectations of the students characteristic of Georgia Tech have proven to be irreplaceable assets in my medical education. I doubt I would be in the same place now had I not learned those skills in undergrad”</p>

<p>I’m not sure if you have already been admitted/are enrolling this fall or not, but if you are Jennifer Kimble, the Pre-Health advisor at Tech, will be holding a Pre-Health Advising session at FASET, which I would strongly encourage you to attend. The time and location will be noted on your FASET schedule.</p>

<p>I hope that helps!</p>

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<p>Many people I know who were engineering majors on the pre-med track dropped because of bad grades. If you can hack it and get a good gpa, then Tech will help you get into med school…but there’s a lot of people who can’t keep their gpa up and be competitive in the harder majors.</p>

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<p>Many people who were in “insert ANY major” on the pre-med track dropped because of bad grades. If you can hack it and get a good GPA, then “insert any school with decent pre-med advising” will help you get into med school…but there are many people who can’t keep their gpa up and be competitive in ANY major. </p>

<p>Statistically speaking, engineers actually have a higher acceptance rate to medical school, and the number of BME majors, among other engineering majors at tech who successfully apply to medical school seems to dispute the assertion that engineering is harder than other majors for pre-med.Most GT pre-med students are engineers and yet they still outperform the national average, and for those who actually use the advising services available, they get into medical school at an extremely high rate. Regardless, majors like biochemistry, chemistry, and physics are arguably just as difficult and often chosen by pre-med students. Choose a major you truly enjoy and working hard so that you can “hack it” will not be that burdensome. I suspect that any one capable of majoring in biology or biochemistry and getting into medical school would have also been capable of majoring in engineering and getting into medical school provided they enjoyed engineers at least as much…</p>

<p>It is true that most people who enter as pre-med do not end up in medical school, but this is true at any school and in any major(unless they screen out their pre-med students as some schools do). I suspect it is even higher in most biology departments simply because they have more pre-meds on average.</p>