<p>Here’s my 2 cents…being premed at Hopkins…U of C is such an excellent institution that I wouldn’t believe stats regarding premed acceptance rates. Remember that a lot of lower quality schools try to lure HS students by saying they have an almost 100 % acceptance rate. Often they screen who can apply as a premed from their school,this is true of Davidson ,and Franklin and Marshall. Also, re: admission to a highly ranked med school…think about it, WHY do you want Johns Hopkins above SUNY Buffalo? Name recognition? I can tell you it doesn’t make a difference if you go into private practice, and not academic medicine ( and research). I would say that you should go to the best possible med school, by maximizing your GPA, not by choosing an undergrad school that is “favored”. Because that is an option for the future, not for a HS student to puzzle…academics vs private practice…just keep in mind that in academics, you make VERY little money, and in PP, you make a lot, simply put, and this may be important, especially if you have huge loans to pay off. If you REALLY want to become the next Craig Venter, or Carol Greider, and can live the ascetic life ( BTW , Greider’s Nobel award equals one’year’s salary of a gastroenterologist in PP, that’s it.I don’t mean to come off as too money oriented, but these are the facts, and SOMEone needs to say it straight.</p>
<p>INteresting, where did you get this? Looking more closely , it looks as if it’s HArvard 11, Johns hopkins 10 cornell 6, dartmouth 5 …the lowest admitted gpa from an IVY on this list, was a 3.50 from princeton, but they had to back that up with a 40 on the MCAT… , and the 3.71 from JHU needed only a 37…some of the other low gpas might be from people with “hooks”, look at the 3.4 w/ MCAT of 34…impossible normally !!, so they should be excluded from analysis…I would counsel my kid to go to JHU or Harvard on this basis.</p>