<p>Ok, I had a question about what competitive school has a high rate of undergrad per-med students matriculating into grad school? I understand the statistic itself is very inaccurate, but I just want to get an idea about how many students have to eventually drop out of the medical field. Can you please tell me about:</p>
<p>The accurate statistics you asked for does not exist. If you are willing to make a guess about how many students at these schools take both chem and bio classes in their freshmen year (e.g., once I read from somewhere that there were over 600 students at Harvard who took the intro bio classes), you could roughly deduce the attrition rate from Table 2 (esp., the one for the white students) in this link:</p>
<p>Many past students like to refer to the GPA-MCAT grid in Table 25 of the above link too. It could help you estimate your odds (based on the stats only, excluding other soft factors), no matter what school you go to. </p>
<p>Please note that while many high school students may think the medicine is their dream career paths, many students at the very top schools may think there are other better choice. For example, I read somewhere that there are about 40% of the graduates from Princeton head to finance related career paths. The percentages of the students at many other schools in your list of schools are not far behind if not similar. Medicine? 20% or even lower (say, 15%) in their graduating class, in my guess. The fact is that, in this world today, serving those who “have” rather than those who “need”, tend to be rewarded more financially speaking, especially when your family is already a part of that class.</p>
<p>You seem to be concerned with the idea of students starting out with plans for medical school and then I guess “dropping down” to graduate school plans instead. The two aren’t exactly in tiers, if that’s what you are getting at.
I am part of the group that switched from pre-med to pre-grad. I had the stats - 3.97 GPA, clinical experience at a top Boston hospital - but I realized that I was more interested in the research I was doing to fill out my grad school application. I switched because once I got to college, I figured out what I was interested in, and am now looking at some absolutely top notch PhD programs. I’m sure the reverse can also happen - a student in some other field changes because they discover an interest in medicine. I wouldn’t choose a school based on claims of medical school acceptance rates; they’ll pump these numbers up by not providing recommendations for students who they don’t think are qualified.</p>
<p>D. was accepted to 3.
But she has chosen another Med. School.
She has never applied to HPME. She has applied to bs/md at her current Med. School and was rejected pre-interview.<br>
She was also rejected from 1. right after she paid her appl. fee (pre-interview).
She did not apply to any others.
Few others from her pre-med class were accepted to 3. D. graduated from state public UG.</p>
<p>but I just want to get an idea about how many students have to eventually drop out of the medical field</p>
<p>this info isn’t really available and if it were, it wouldn’t be valuable. Schools don’t usually control who declares themselves to be “premed”. So, frequently students who don’t have the talents go that route (maybe due to family pressure or ??) and quickly realize that they’re not cut out for this. What does the school’s name have to do with any of this? Nothing.</p>