<p>How do you find these stats? </p>
<p>I've seen people state things like '67% of pre-meds from Berkeley get into med school," and '50% of pre-meds from UCLA get in," etc. </p>
<p>So I was wondering where people come up with these numbers? Sometimes there are links to the school website w/ the stats listed, but I'm having a bit of trouble finding them. Help? :)</p>
<p>Generally I'd take a look at the school's Career Centre/Pre-med advising website.</p>
<p>E.g. Berkeley: Career</a> Center - Medical School Statistics</p>
<p>The problems with these stats:</p>
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<li><p>They generally follow selectivity. Would it surprise you if Harvard applicants get into med school at a 95% clip while state school applicants only get into med school at a 50% rate? Harvard students are generally brighter and more driven to begin with.</p></li>
<li><p>What schools define as "med school." Some schools only count allopathic schools. Some schools count everything (US allopathic, US osteopathic, Carib, Poland, Madagascar, etc.). The most competitive schools are the US MD schools so you can see how counting every kind of "med school" would inflate your %'s.</p></li>
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<p>3) What schools define as "getting in." Some schools only count first time applicants. Some schools track their applicants over a period of years and as long as they get in, it's called a "success." For example, if Johnnie applies to med school 5 times and finally gets in, some schools will go back and retroactively change their data from 5 years before. Therefore, X percentage of their applicants EVENTUALLY get in (rather than X percentage of their applicants get in on their first time).</p>
<p>4) Screening: Some schools flat out refuse to write you a committee letter if you are underqualified. Hence, their acceptance rates are artificially inflated.</p>
<p>5) # of senior vs. # of alumni applicants. Some schools actively discourage their weaker applicants from applying as college seniors (even without a screening policy). For example, Swarthmore has a 100% acceptance rate to med school...from a whopping 6 senior applicants. A 6:40 senior:alumni ratio is definitely abnormal. Overall, it's not a bad idea for colleges to encourage weaker applicants to improve their applications before applying. However, you can see how that would inflate your med school acceptance rates.</p>
<p>6) Which applicants are included in the applicant data. Some schools include all applicants (seniors and alumni). Some schools include only seniors. Some schools include only non-URM's. Generally, whether you include URM's in your data or not, it probably won't affect your acceptance rate too much since URM's generally get into med school at the same rate as non-URM's. However, it is worth scrutinizing if you see a school claim that its students are accepted into med school with a lower GPA. Including URM's in that data would definitely help bolster such claims.</p>
<p>You can see there are a lot of variables to consider. Hence, it is difficult to compare data from any two schools. But, if you want to find acceptance rates and acceptance data, you can generally find it on the Career Services web pages of colleges. There's no single website out there that has tabulated the various med school acceptance rates. Such data is simply not publically available.</p>
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<p>The pre-med advising must be working for the students because not only are the senior applicants seeing 100% acceptance rates, but the overall rates including alumni have been running in the 80%-90% range, with a worst year of 78% and a best year of 94% in the last decade. That’s combined senior and alumni applications.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.swarthmore.edu/Documents/administration/ir/MedSchool.pdf[/url]”>http://www.swarthmore.edu/Documents/administration/ir/MedSchool.pdf</a></p>
<p>The acceptance rates for Swarthmore have been okay, about what you’d expect for a LAC and for the caliber of freshmen it enrolls. My point, and it was noted in my first post, is not to criticize Swarthmore for discouraging undergrads from applying but rather to suggest that many of its competitors who do not do this might have artificially deflated med school acceptance rates from students who apply when they’re not ready. If Cornell or Penn or Harvard discouraged its weaker applicants from applying to the point that they have a 6:40 ratio of undergrad:alumni applicants, they might have even higher acceptance rates than they do now. That’s why I consider Swarthmore and JHU’s rates to be artificially inflated.</p>
<p>I thought I read somewhere on CC that you can find the acceptance rates to medical schools on the graduate school version of USNews premium online edition. So I just ordered it, but I don’t see any statistics on the acceptance rate to medical school from a particular undergraduate institution. Am I missing something?</p>
<p>They probably meant each medical school’s overall admissions rate, which USN definitely does have.</p>