<p>I noticed only a very small fraction of CMU undergrads attend med school within a year of graduation (I think the percent is around 1% but may be higher). Is this mainly because CMU students are more CS/engineer folk? What is the % rate at which CMU students are admitted to med school?</p>
<p>You have to look at PRE-MEDS and see how many attend Med School.</p>
<p>Why would you look at the overall school LOL?</p>
<p>AcceptedAlready-- I don't understand what you mean by: why would you look at the overall school?</p>
<p>But maybe I was unclear with my question. What I mean to ask is: is there a particular reason why not many (or so it seems) students from CMU go to med school? Is this reason because CMU is predominantly a CS and engineering institution?</p>
<p>I meant that you should only look at students whose major is Biomed E. or Biology. You have to realize that students who do not take certain courses (like Biology) have NO chance of ever doing well on the MCATs (kind of like the SATs for med school except they matter a lot).</p>
<p>Thus, you should only look at percentages of pre-med bio's who go on to med school. At the moment there is no such thing because pre-meds change their minds a lot (especially those in biomed engineering) about whether or not to do med.</p>
<p>If you want a rough sketch you can look at MCS-Bio and see how many went to Med school. <a href="http://www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/career/employ/salary/Biology05.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/career/employ/salary/Biology05.pdf</a></p>
<p>You can see that almost every Bio Major did something concerning Bio whether it be Medicine (med) or pharmacy or Biology/Chem Biology. Others even did LAW!</p>
<p>That link shows that out of only 40+ grads, everyone did very well in terms of grad/med school and some even went on to prestigious Law firms (Columbia, Harvard).</p>
<p>Sorry if I misunderstood you and if you have any other questions feel free to ask.</p>
<p>AcceptedAlready, do you have a rough figure of what % of students who applied to med school got accepted to at least one? And also, how many (or what fraction) of each class would you say is a pre-med student?</p>
<p>You can figure out the % from the link I gave you. I don't think you looked at the link since you took about 3 min to reply to my msg :). Realize that obviously the people who went to Law did not ever want to go to medical school to begin with and probably did not even TAKE the MCATs as they were too busy studying for the LSATs.</p>
<p>If you want to find out how many Bio/Bio-Engineering majors there are, just count how many graduate each year (Bio was 40+, then add the BioEngineering majors). </p>
<p>I will say this:</p>
<p>CMU does very well with recruiters and top graduate schools (as you can see from the link). Bio majors going into Harvard Law can attest for this. You can see from a small grad class of 40 something, we have had the MOST go to CMU (12) and the second most go to Harvard (5) and then the next few go to Upenn(4), Johns Hopkins (3), Stanford (3), Cornell (3), and Columbia (4). These are the MOST popular choices for grads so I would say your chances of going to medicine and going to a TOP med school is very good if you are within the top half of your class. Also it is hard to judge since so many people do weird things like Law, Pharmacy, Biotechnology, Engineering, etc. </p>
<p>PS: This info is ONLY from Biology. BioEngineering majors do everything from Engineering to Med. </p>
<p>Summary: CMU does VERY well with post-graduate status in all fields of study :)</p>
<p>If you have more questions feel free to ask.</p>
<p>I glanced at the data, but it just seemed too convoluted for me (it's been a long day and I should get to sleep soon!) I can't really figure out the % and why this data is between the years 2001 to 2004 (or am I mistaken on that).</p>
<p>I'll have to look into this a little further another day, but is there any other data (published by CMU) that will outline this information in a more friendly manner? I've found that other schools have this information readily (ie. Johns Hopkins' med school acceptance rate after graduation is around 95% more or less). Is there any data that encompasses all who have applied (not just bio majors, but literally all pre-med students who applied)? Thanks for the insight thus far, nonetheless.</p>
<p>yeah, im interested in this info as well. anyone?</p>
<p>Anyone have this information on hand?</p>
<p>what jhu doesn't tell you is that they discourage less qualified students from even applying to med-school so they don't "ruin" their very high med school acceptence rate.</p>
<p>hopeful4cornell, to an extent, that's probably true about JHU, but I'm willing to guess that anyone who puts in an honest effort to keep a solid GPA, etc. will get recommendations, etc.</p>
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<li>JHU is a pre-med school primarily</li>
<li>JHU states they will write you a bad rec if you apply to med school without a good GPA (therefore people that are borderline to get into med school will not even apply because the bad rec will keep them out anyways). You can even call JHU and ask and they will confirm this. It is also on their website; someone had a link a while ago and you can probably ask on the JHU board as well.</li>
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<p>I totally agree with the fact that JHU has "selective" (more or less) med school applications for their applicants. But, nonetheless, what's the pre-med life like at CMU? Are there any appealing statistics that reflect the quality of pre-med preparation at CMU (particularly MCS)? Thanks</p>
<p>This was a great thread for anyone wondering about premed at CMU...I remembered it from last year by a poster Kazema who was a CMU pre-med...he apparently didn't have the highest gpa but his remarks say a lot about CMU for premed:</p>
<p>Thanks 2331clk!</p>
<p>As of now, it looks like CMU is where I'll be, but I'm keeping UMich in mind as well. Each are awesome schools, but UMich seems to be stronger when it comes to pre-med. Although, I'm a little hesistant to say UMich is where I'll go because I realize now that a huge, huge university might not be for me. Again, can anyone provide any clear statistics about pre-med at CMU?</p>
<p>I've searched through the medical school matriculations from CMU graduates and have come across something quirky. All the salary, etc. data for each school seems to be from 2004-2005 onward except for MCS, which is 2001-2005, or is this a typo?</p>
<p>Also, I noticed that 46 of the graduates from all CMU schools are attending med school now--the bulk of which was from MCS. However, if this data is from 2001-2005, wouldn't that number be very little (an average of about 10 per graduating class of 1000+)? I understand that CMU is predominantly an engineering and computer science school, but 10 still seems like a very small fraction nonetheless. Any thoughts or insight on this? Feel free to correct me if I made a mistake on that data. Anyway, here is the list of med school matriculations:
[ul]
[<em>]Boston
[</em>]Cornell
[<em>]Drexel
[</em>]Georgetown
[<em>]Harvard
[</em>]Hershey
[<em>]Indiana
[</em>]Jefferson (2)
[<em>]Johns Hopkins
[</em>]MCP Hahnemann
[<em>]NY College
[</em>]NY Med College
[<em>]NY School of Med.
[</em>]Phila. College
[<em>]St. Georges (2)
[</em>]Stanford
[<em>]Texas Tech
[</em>]Tufts
[<em>]U. of Arizona
[</em>]University of Maryland
[<em>]UMass
[</em>]UMiami
[<em>]UPenn (3)
[</em>]UPitt (7)
[<em>]URochester
[</em>]UVA
[<em>]USC (2)
[</em>]Wash U. St. Louis
[<em>]West Virginia U.
[</em>]Medical School (6)**[/ul]</p>
<p><strong>Only "Medical School" (as opposed to a specific school/program) was listed under University/Program, but there were 6 individuals who went off to "Medical School"</strong></p>
<p>Total: 46</p>
<p>You may also contact Ren</p>
<p>When I visited, the head of the Bio department said that CMU's makesup looks like this:
1/3 go to graduate school
1/3 go straight into work
1/3 go to med school
I don't know where you're getting your 1% from, but that's what she told us.</p>
<p>I would hope that you are right--about 1/3rd going to med school, however a few things caught my attention about the lack of interest in the medical field at CMU: one being collegeboard.com (<a href="http://apps.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeId=3693&profileId=7%5B/url%5D">http://apps.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeId=3693&profileId=7</a>) But I am hoping that data is wrong. I've contacted Ren</p>
<p>Like I've said before, you can't use the school overall because of the school separation. Do you think us Tepper kids would study for MCATs instead of taking our 2-3 offered jobs in NYC? lol....</p>
<p>CMU's job offers also persuade a few kids from going into the workforce instead of straight into med. This can be shown by the Physics/Math/Chem majors in MCS having 55k+ avg starting salaries. I know quite a few SHS people on our floor who were planning to do pre-med instead go into a Math/Business double for the money and job opps instead. </p>
<p>This is why you listen to the head of the bio department and people like Renee Starek who have actual info about interests of pre-meds and their opps of going to med school.</p>