<p>"In 2003, Swarthmore's acceptance rate for the 14 graduating seniors was 79% and the 27 alumni/ae applicants was 78% for an overall acceptance rate of 78%"</p>
<p>"In 2003, the national average GPA for matriculating medical school students was a 3.62 and the Swarthmore average GPA for accepted students was 3.56."</p>
<p>"Please note: There is no GPA cut-off for obtaining a Health Sciences Advisory Committee letter of recommendation."</p>
<p>That's what I thought. I didn't think that Swarthmore played that trick of withholding cert letters. Nor did I believe the previous numbers thrown around where some people asserted that Swarthmore had a 100% placement rate, because that doesn't pass the smell test.</p>
<p>sakky: I wasn't talking about Swathmore. I was talking about this quote: </p>
<p>"HYPS have ~ 90% acceptance rates, and they don't do any maneuvering."</p>
<p>I have it on excellent authority that HYPS do not do any prescreening. Basically, I have strong reason to believe that if they do, I would have almost certainly heard of it by now. </p>
<p>However, I will leave it open to the group. If anybody has a link that shows that HYPS do prescreening, or knows of somebody who went to HYPS and was denied a premed certification letter, I'm all ears.</p>
<p>My son is a premed at Yale and he says that he has never heard of anyone denying a premed the opportunity to apply to med school. The Premed Manual does not mention that the students may be screened in any way in order to ascertain if Yale will write them a letter. In fact, the manual says that the Premed office writes a letter which is informational only, not judging at all.</p>