<p>I was wondering how many of the students who apply to any medical school from University of Southern California undergrad are accepted. Are there any sites to find these statistics?</p>
<p>You can glean some of that information from the site “MDapplicants.com.” The data is incomplete but can be useful. If you “jump” to a particular med school, you can sort by undergrad institution, and filter by applied vs. accepted. You will see many fewer USC people than UC people but there is a much larger pool of UC people. You can judge.</p>
<p>The Pre-Health info session from ExploreUSC stated that 55% percent of applicants get into medical school, which is slightly above the national average.</p>
<p>thank you thank you!</p>
<p>This is an extremely sketchy metric to base any pre-med decision on, however. Every school can decide how to report this figure (or if they report one at all). Some include non-traditional applicants (alums who have been out of school for some time and have been adding to their resumes), others are committee letter schools who select only certain students to write letters for (and thus, only allow their best students to apply in the first place). These figures are also for ANY acceptance to a medical school (i.e., student may have applied to 25 schools and got into 1). There are many more factors that are truly useful when deciding on a school for a pre-med student than this number.</p>
<p>^ I was wondering about this. For example Loyola Marymount says it has a 90%+ acceptance rate to medical school. You can’t tell me those students are twice as prepared or qualified as the applicants from USC. So why the difference -?</p>
<p>Again, it is a sketchy metric and you can get more information about this by posting in the pre-med forums here at CC. There are med students, interns, residents, parents of med students, and at least one med school ad com who post there regularly who all will echo this point. If your school pre-screens who they write committee letters for, then they better well have high acceptance rates, right? USC does not pre-screen thru committee letters. I don’t know anything about LM.</p>
<p>Many students who are premed don’t end up even applying to med school or they try a year of research or post grad study to get on track . The ones who do apply have taken the MCAT and done reasonably well, have high GPAs, and have withstood the fierce competition. Most (but not all) premed students are science majors and the road is tough with some very difficult “weed out” classes. The are many factors in who it is who makes it into which med school. I’m pretty sure a number like 50% or 90% from a particular undergraduate institution involves only those who DO apply.</p>
<p>I think the point to be aware of is: many universities do not permit all their students to apply to medical school. If they only let the very top students apply, it would be natural to see 90% of them admitted. That’s not, of course, 90% of those who wanted to go to medical school, but 90% of the very top students. These universities control such applications by limiting who they write recommendations for. Tough if your school does not back you.</p>
<p>However, some universities, including USC do not limit students from applying to med schools. With a wider pool of applicants (of varying stats, MCATs, etc) there will likely be a lower admit rate shown. But it is impossible to compare one statistic to the other. For instance, if you took a subsection of USC’s top 10% students applying to medical school, you’d see a much higher percent admitted to med school.</p>
<p>Of course this same holds true for all schools who do not limit their students from applying to med schools. More important, perhaps, is finding an UG school where one can thrive and achieve high grades plus the education needed to get great MCATs. I wonder if their is any way to track the MCAT scores by students from a given university? And to compare it somehow to those coming from another university. Just a thought.</p>