<p>about how many students drop out from the pre-med route within the first year?</p>
<p>At my school, about 40% are weeded out between gen chem (first pre-med course taken along with biology) and orgo (almost always taken sophomore year). With the mean grades the way they are, half the students in each pre-med class will receive a grade below B/B-, so most drop due to grades, disgust, not enough interest/endurance, and/or they actually want a life post-undergrad.</p>
<p>So far, I'd say 25-40% but this is based on everyone who says they're a bio major and then change to a completely different major, so this includes those who actually wanted to study biology as well as pre-health.</p>
<p>people start dropping out in gen.chem, then those who got by in gchem started taking bio classes and were convinced to drop out after doing poorly in biology too. i'd say more dropped out the latter way. then a bunch of people start re-evaluating their prospects of med school while taking ochem too.</p>
<p>Varies from school to school. Duke actually has more people applying each year than came in saying they were premeds, so we apparently get a net gain.</p>