<p>how many students who apply to medical school get accepted?</p>
<p>i know this questions has probably been asked a million times, but when i searched for it, it keeps on talking about jhu students applying to jhu med school, i wanna know the percentage that get accepted to any medical school. thanks</p>
<p>Last I saw 83%</p>
<p>Wasnt it 9X or something? I remember it was super high</p>
<p>This may be a dumb question but I’m hoping someone will answer it…so a lot of colleges brag about their 70-85% med school acceptance rate, but honestly, it seems kind of low to me just because I wonder about the other 15-30% of applicants who won’t be able to go to med school. What happens to those people who plan on going to med school but aren’t accepted? Like me, I plan to major in bio and if I don’t get into med school I don’t know what I’d be able to do other than maybe be a bio teacher. Thanks.</p>
<p>Many people who don’t get in study and retake their boards. Also some may take additional courses to make their application look better. If you REALLY want to go their are steps you can take even if you don’t get in on the first try.</p>
<p>They go into research or some other health field (nursing, PA, dentist, D.O, w/e) or look into other career interests.</p>
<p>I heard the national average is 40-some %.</p>
<p>in regards to med school stats:
From 2003-2008, first-time Hopkins applicants with a 3.3 cumulative GPA or greater had more than an 88% chance of being accepted to at least one U.S. allopathic (M.D.) medical school</p>
<p>From 2003-2008, first-time Hopkins applicants with a cumulative GPA below a 3.3 had just under a 50% chance of being accepted to at least one U.S. allopathic medical school.</p>
<p>national avg: 3.51gpa, 45.6% chance of admission.</p>
<p>In 2008, Hopkins applicants who were accepted to medical school had an average cumulative GPA of 3.55 and science GPA of 3.48 while the corresponding national figures were 3.66 and 3.60 respectively.</p>
<p>Take these stats with a gain of salt.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that many people who come to Hopkins with the intention of doing pre-med eventually drop out of the pre-med track. Sometimes it’s because they find new interests, but many times it’s also because pre-med here is BRUTAL. You might have confidence now and you might have been a brilliant student in high school, but that won’t be enough. This is my third year as a pre-med here at Hopkins and I’ve seen tons of friends and acquaintances decide that medical school is not for them.</p>
<p>The acceptance rate is so high because the pool of applicants is qualified. It’s a self-selecting pool; orgo, biochem, etc. weeds out the weaker students. Pre-professional will not write you a letter of recommendation unless you have a good GPA --and that rec letter is pretty important.</p>
<p>That being said, that 83% figure is nothing to turn your nose up at. If you can make it out of JHU with a good science/cumulative GPA, you have a really good chance. It’s just those darn deflated grades…</p>
<p>Congrats to the new class of '14. Welcome to our school and if it’s really hard, hey, you can always transfer to Brown or something.</p>
<p>How are the chances of a student going to JHU getting into JHU medical school? Are they higher then the chances of a student from Emory getting into JHU medical school?</p>
<p>based on what i saw and heard in the past year, jhu alums makes up the most single school in many of the top medical schools, including their own. that said, don’t go to jhu undergrad because you want to be in their med school because that may not happen. </p>
<p>go to jhu because it’s a great place with limitless opportunities.</p>
<p>why does hopkins get all the bad rep for being the most CUTTHROAT and BRUTAL of all schools especially for premeds? I’m sure other top notch schools like harvard or WashU or Brown would be just as cutthroat as well…</p>
<p>you dont hear anything about cutthroat on campus. there are people who are super competitive and keep to themselves, but they are in the minority (same as any top school). most of the people i know collaborate on just about everything, and professors encourage that.</p>
<p>you do hear people complaining about grades… it’ll happen at any school with smart kids and little grade inflation. everyone here is used to doing well in HS but hopkins has tough classes, so getting good grades isn’t easy. not everyone is cut out for physics for ex- some lack the talent and id say more lack the work ethic. you dont have to be a genius to do well here. just budget your time wisely and stay on top of your work.</p>
<p>also be wise in picking classes. don’t load up with calc 3 biochem organic and physics +labs if you know you don’t have the time to exhaust all the resources available to you. too many people take a heavy load and crush their gpa before they come to their senses :P.</p>
<p>and the pre-prof office will not turn you down for a letter but they wont write you a strong one if they deem you need to do some fixing and you are ignoring their advice. it only makes sense. how can they rate you as excellent in areas you are deficient in and refuse to improve? they are not going to lie for you but at the same time their job is to help you get in so they wouldn’t set you up to fail.</p>
<p>There are lies, damnable lies and statistics. A study of JHU premeds a few years ago found that most who were not admitted on the first try were eventually admitted. Note that the pre-med office will OFTEN recommend students take a year off after graduating before first applying to med school. The average age of first-year medical students nationwide is 24. At the state med school where I teach about half the freshman class are not straight out of college. JHU stats are here [JHU</a> Pre-Professional Advising](<a href=“Pre-Professional Advising | Student Affairs”>Pre-Professional Advising | Student Affairs)
BTW there are a lot harder grad schools to get into than med school. You think its hard to get into Johns Hopkins med school? The JHU MFA program in fiction received 225 applications this year for 5 spots!</p>
<p>^^ Ouch! I also hear the History of Art PHD programs and English are RIDICULOUSLY selective!</p>