If you attend Johns Hopkins University for college and you apply to Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, will you have a higher chance of getting in?
Probably it won’t make much difference. A large portion of those admitted to the med school are from top 5 or so undergraduate schools.
Hopkins Med does accept more students from its undergrad than any other university, but we’re talking about 15-30 students a year out of the 250 or so they probably accept in total. Remember though that 300-400 students from Hopkins apply each year in a cycle, so that 15-30 doesn’t seem all that high when you compare it to the hundreds of qualified Hopkins undergrad applicants who are also applying to Hopkins Med.
Yeah, it is slightly easier to get into Hopkins med if you attended JHU for undergrad. They won’t admit it, but it’s true.
If anything they love to admit it. That slim margin (maybe a percent or two?) increase in odds is all they need to show to rake in hundreds of millions from eager premeds.
I’ve seen the stats from a couple of years ago, and it looks like JHU Med heavily favors applicants coming from its own undergad programs. The top 3 feeder schools to JHU Med Schools are like:
JHU
UC Berkeley
Harvard
In that order. But there was an apparent gap in terms of the number of students admitted into JHU Med between JHU and Berkeley.
I will post the link to that report as soon as I find it.
I’m sure that’s true, but I’m curious to see how many JHU students applied for those spots (probably a couple hundred).