<p>103 Duke seniors were accepted to medical school in 2006
122 Duke seniors applied to medical school in 2006
47.5 Percent of national applicants accepted to medical school in 2006
84.4 Percent of Duke seniors applying to medical school were accepted in 2006<br>
7.5 Percent of the class of 2006 applied to medical school as seniors
181 Duke alumni/ae applied to medical school, at least 141 of whom were first time applicants
123 Duke alumni/ae were accepted to medical school in 2006<br>
64 Women in the class of 2006 applied to medical school, 52.4% of senior applicants
58 Men in the class of 2006 applied to medical school, 47.5% of senior applicants
7 Members of the class of 2006 or alumni/ae were accepted and deferred admission to medical school for one year
10 Duke applicants used the HPAC services for applying to dental schools and 7 were accepted </p>
<p>Out of all of the schools I am considering attending, Duke does by far the best job organizing and making relevant information available to prospective students. Their pre-med advising services seem to be much better organized than other schools as well.</p>
<p>"Kay Singer, associate dean of Trinity College of Arts & Sciences and director of the Health Professions Advising Center, tracks students interested in medicine. She finds them by examining the Freshman Picture Book and the annual Cooperative Institutional Research Program survey conducted by the provost's office.</p>
<p>Singer's records indicate that 280 members of the Class of 2005 identified themselves as pre-med in the Freshman Picture Book. The actual number may have been even higher. Singer's calculation did not include those students who listed engineering, general sciences or even humanities as preferred areas of studies despite their intentions of becoming physicians. It also did not count students who did not submit information to the book.</p>
<p>By the time they were seniors, only 118 members of the Class of 2005 applied to medical school.</p>
<p>Some officials, like Singer, attribute this disparity between the number of students who enter on a pre-med track and those who graduate on the track to individuals' exposure to new fields of study in college. But many students and their professors said other factors contribute to students' decision to drop pre-med studies...."</p>
<p>"Despite the decline in the number of students on the pre-med track over a four-year span, Singer said the number of individuals applying for medical school at graduation might also be misleading. "There's a growing trend in medicine for people to wait a year or more to apply to medical school," she said.</p>
<p>Singer said she has monitored alumni from the Class of 2000 to examine this trend. In the Freshman Picture Book, 317 matriculating freshmen from the class labeled themselves as pre-med. Only 121 applied to medical school as seniors, but 231 students from the class of 2000 had applied by 2005"</p>
<p>The number (122) omits delayed applicants (181) for a total of 300. By that measure, Duke seems to pick up premeds over time rather than attrite them, a vast contrast compared to most other undergraduate schools.</p>
<p>(Of course, Singer's informal estimate may well be an underestimate.)</p>
<p>so Duke has an 84.4 percent acceptance rate to med school for first time applicants. Anyone know how many go to good schools (Harvard, Yale, Duke, Stanford, Hopkins, Princeton, etc?)</p>
<p>The acceptance rate in question is misleading. The actual percentage needs to take into consideration the number of premeds that enter Duke as freshmen and who end up getting accepted to medical school in their senior year. That would be the true reflection of how succesful Duke is in getting their "premeds" admitted to med school. Some schools weed out their premeds during undergrad so that they "look" as if most of their premed students get accepted...One can not say that the 84.4 referred above has any relevance to their "premed" program....but rather just to "whoever" is defining himself as "premed" during senior year...</p>
<p>MovieBuff makes a good point. Many more students matriculated with the ambition to go to med school than ultimately applied. 103 of 122 looks great until it is put in the context of a class of 1600, 20-25% of whom entered with the desire become physicians, and all of whom had the ability to make it. In the so-called "elite" colleges and universities that have a large number of highly-qualified students starting as "pre-med" a better measure of success might be the percentage of the entire class that ultimately apply. I suspect that Duke is comparable to peer schools such as Penn or JHU in that regard, but some smaller schools with similar admission stats might be slightly more successful. For example, Rice had a similar rate of acceptance to applicant percentage, 102/116 vs Duke's 103/122, but those 116 applicants came from of class of about 650. The wildcard for Duke in this analysis is the large numbers of alums who apply 2 to 5 years after graduating. It would be interesting to see who they are. My guess would be that more than a few are BME's.</p>
<p>Bluedevilmike: The picture should be rosy. Most Duke pre-meds arrive with an AP Chem score of 5, AP Physics score of 5, AP Bio score of 5 and AP composition score of 5. All estimated to be equivalent to a A in a typical college level course. If they all took the MCAT's the day before the start of classes they would score substantially better than the national average.</p>
<p>With all of those McDonald's All Americans you should always be in the sweet 16.</p>
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actual percentage needs to take into consideration the number of premeds that enter Duke as freshmen and who end up getting accepted to medical school in their senior year. That would be the true reflection of how succesful Duke is in getting their "premeds" admitted to med school.
I would hesitate to make such a comparison. I came in as a biology major but switched to Classics and EOS after deciding that biology just wasn't as interesting. A lot of people come in as pre-med or pre-law simply because they haven't been exposed to very many career fields. If a pre-med student gets hooked by their English course and decides to become a writer, I would hardly say that student was weeded out.</p>
<p>My point is that using that 84.4% to promote Duke's effectiveness in getting their premeds into med school is flat wrong.. (just like that alleged number for Hopkins..) That statistic should not used. It means...what?? Certainly not what those using it are trying to illustrate.</p>
<p>Now, if you show me that Duke kept track of their X number of freshmen who registered as premeds, then substracted the Y number of fresh, soph and juniors that changed their minds in the process ( like some you..) and then in the senior year released the figure of Z accepted into med schools......by comparing X- Y related to Z, we would have a valid number number to brag about. Since it has not happened, then let's not mislead others.. ( see how excited 20_07 got- posts #2 and #3 and deltaroyale post #8 )</p>
<p>On the other hand, the "extra premeds" that are picked up along the way (cause they may switch from ie: Mathematics/Economics) further complicate the equation, but since the question being answered is about "I want to apply to an undergrad premed program that has the highest possibility of getting me into med school" ( the OP selling point of the 84.4 for Duke ), it is clear... that info is not relevant to the question.</p>