Has anyone heard of a website ranking colleges by med-school acceptance rates?

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<p>Has anyone heard of a website ranking colleges by med-school acceptance rates?</p>

<p>I've been looking unsuccessfully for something like that, the closest i've found is MDapplicants.com</a> - Select School which is alright though I am lead to question the accuracy. I was wondering if there was somewhere that quantified it easily, such as "x college - 35% premeds who applied were accepted to med school" and such. I've had a hard time finding any kind of worthwhile ranking for premed schools. </p>

<p>Clearly it is a bad idea to apply to a college based only on numbers, but it can definitely be useful in making a choice and finding your best shot. i.e. if 25% were accepted at x college and i am not the top 75% I will not likely make it in, etc.</p>

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<p>If there is such a ranking, it would need to be taken with an enormous quantity of salt. Medical School acceptance rate is an easily manipulated number. Some schools weed out weak candidates long before they ever would apply to med school, others don’t. This has a big impact on percentage of applicants accepted.</p>

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<p>Why don’t you post this question on the premed forum?</p>

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<p>I agree with annasdad. There’s no real way to compare by acceptance rates due to the oodles of schools who won’t support someone they consider a weak candidate vs schools who will support anyone who wants to apply.</p>

<p>There are MANY good options for pre-med wannabes. Find schools you are interested in, and ask them their stats (NOT acceptance rates) but how many students made it in, where, and what their MCAT/GPA was. Then compare your schools. Try to find the best school you can afford without oodles of loans. </p>

<p>Definitely don’t go for a high debt school. You don’t want to owe 100K before you even get to med school costs. If you can afford a school, keep in mind that you will also need to pay for med school, so sometimes saving saved money is a good idea too. If you have high stats, look for schools with decent merit aid and decent stats mentioned above. If your folks are lower income, consider schools with good need-based aid and decent stats. There is no one “right” way or choice.</p>

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<p>what kind of stats am I looking for? Where do I find these?</p>

<p>I know that some colleges don’t support their lower rung students and I definitely have to take that into consideration</p>

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<p>If and when you find a good list of med-school acceptance rates, be sure you’re comparing apples to apples with respect to grades and test scores. What you really want to compare is the acceptance rates for students with specific combinations of scores and GPAs. I doubt you will find a comprehensive set of data like that. But if you do, I doubt you will see much difference in the admit rates across colleges for students with the same GPAs and scores.</p>

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<p>Acceptance rates won’t tell you ANYTHING.</p>

<p>And, the stat only indicates that X% had ONE admission to a US MD med school. It doesn’t mean that X% of their students received multiple acceptances. </p>

<p>The only acceptance that matter is YOURS.</p>

<p>School A Boasts 85% acceptance rate to med schools. So, what does that mean to you???</p>

<p>400 incoming frosh at School A have declared themselves to be pre-med.</p>

<p>After fall semester, the number is down to 350 because of lowish Gen Chem grades (or bio grades.)</p>

<p>After spring semester, the number is down to 325 because of lowish Gen Chem II grades.</p>

<p>After Fall sophomore semester, the number is down to 275 because of Ochem grades.</p>

<p>After Spring soph semester, the number is down to 250 because of Ochem II grades.</p>

<p>and, each semester more and more students move away from the pre-med track due to grades.</p>

<p>And sometimes that student just decides a different career path. </p>

<p>Then senior year comes…</p>

<p>At this point there are about 200 or less remaining pre-med students. Some decide on a Glide Year and don’t apply til after graduation or some feel that they need a post-bac to boost their GPA or maybe they want to retake the MCAT because they didn’t like their score. And, some of these kids will never end up applying.</p>

<pre><code>Maybe 150 decide to apply to med schools their senior year (actually the summer before senior year). Out of the 150, if 85% get accepted to ONE US MD school, then that’s the stat that gets reported.
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<p>However, how does that 85% acceptance rate tell you anything about your chances of getting into med school while you’re still in high school??? The school started with 400 pre-med students and yet only about 125 got accepted to one US MD school.</p>

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<p>No school I know of quotes the number of freshman pre-meds whittled down to find that elite pool of kids with the best chances of getting into med school. Out of 100 interested freshman, you could end up with a dozen the college is willing to endorse for applications, possibly fewer. Oh yeah sure. Better to pick a nice college that works with you, than one out to weed down to achieve some high paper percentage.</p>

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<p>You have to ask, generally in person. A good pre-med adviser will have and offer those stats. Beware of schools who try to keep it secret or “general.”</p>

<p>What we saw from some preferred pre-med places were acceptances listed by GPA, MCAT, and sometimes, field of study (not specific major, but science or humanities).</p>

<p>These same schools also freely mentioned which med schools kids were going to (though not specific to student name —> school).</p>

<p>If you visit a few places and talk with pre-med advising, you’ll start to get a grasp on places you like vs those you don’t. It never hurts to talk with students in the program either as they often know about kids a year or two ahead of them. In general, the smaller the school and the more successful the pre-med program the better they are at offering stats. Large state schools tend to not offer data so much. It doesn’t mean you can’t succeed there, you can, many do each year, but, well, you draw your own conclusions.</p>

<p>NONE of this guarantees YOU will make the grades. You have to work for that. But it will give you an idea of whether it is possible. You can also compare schools to the national average found on one of the tables here (some of the schools will have done this already):</p>

<p><a href=“https://www.aamc.org/data/facts/applicantmatriculant/[/url]”>https://www.aamc.org/data/facts/applicantmatriculant/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>If you are interested in a Top 10 research med school (yes, there are such places), then WUSTL offers this list of places where successful applicants came from (at least three had to come from there to make the list). Scroll over Undergrad Institutions Represented:</p>

<p>[Who</a> Chooses WU](<a href=“http://medadmissions.wustl.edu/HowtoApply/selectionprocess/Pages/WhoChoosesWU.aspx]Who”>http://medadmissions.wustl.edu/HowtoApply/selectionprocess/Pages/WhoChoosesWU.aspx)</p>

<p>People who should know have told me other top schools would produce a similar list allowing for variances due to location, etc. ANY school on that list (or similar caliber) is one you could be successful from.</p>

<p>If you are interested in your state med school (usually a good choice), feel free to check their websites to see if they offer any useful data. If you can find someone with connections there, ask what schools they recommend. Sometimes they offer specific suggestion (like certain state schools they like), sometimes they offer general suggestions (say Top 100 schools), and sometimes they won’t say. They will never guarantee YOU will be admitted, of course, but again, ask enough different people and you’ll start to see basic trends.</p>

<p>You don’t need an Ivy or similar.
You don’t want a lot of undergrad debt.</p>

<p>But for us, it was worth it to do research to find some nice potential schools that would be affordable without a huge contribution on our part.</p>

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<p>Top Premed Schools that come to mind are Harvard, Yale, Duke, UPenn, Brown, and top LACs like Williams/Swarthmore/Amherst</p>