<p>I was wondering how many of the students who apply to any medical school from University of Virginia undergrad are accepted. Are there any sites to find these statistics?</p>
<p>You could ask the premed society, but they probably don’t publish that statistic.</p>
<p>Some info was recently posted on this website - I think it was the John Hopkins vs. UVa thread.</p>
<p>Do you know what site it is? It is really important for me to know what percent of applicants from UVA to medical school gets accepted. And is the pre-med program/help good at UVA?</p>
<p>Those statistics are really misleading if you can get them from any school. Because it is widely know that you need almost perfect grades to even think about getting into med school many students who enter college as “pre Med” self select themselves out when they don’t get the grades they know they need. They tend to migrate to other majors. My son is not a pre med major, he is Biochemistry but so far the advising at UVA is great. He has gotten excellent assistance from the chemistry department as well as other professors he has approached with questions.</p>
<p>You can see a chart with admission data on the FAQ page for the pre-health advising website:
[Prospective</a> Students Interested in Health Professions](<a href=“http://www.career.virginia.edu/hpa/prospective-students/#q5]Prospective”>http://www.career.virginia.edu/hpa/prospective-students/#q5)</p>
<p>THANK YOU SO MUCH that website helps a lot</p>
<p>Ouch! Only 61% got in? I could have sworn Dean J said 72% or 78% got in a couple of years ago. I figured it was in the mid 70s. At least we’re above average. This is some pretty shocking information.</p>
<p>Remember that is right-out-of-college acceptance. I have a good number of friends who took a year off, did an internship, reapplied, and got in to great schools.</p>
<p>The UVa medical school acceptance rate is concerningly low compared to its peer schools. I am sure that they will say that it is because they do not limit who applies to medical school, but the practice of refusing to provide a recommendation is out-of-vogue at most prestigious schools. UVa should be embarrassed…</p>
<p>Some more info is on the UVa Health Professions blog: <a href=“http://uvahpa.blogspot.com/[/url]”>http://uvahpa.blogspot.com/</a>
Just to put it out there, here’s the UVa Pre-Law Advising blog: <a href=“http://uva-prelaw.blogspot.com/[/url]”>http://uva-prelaw.blogspot.com/</a></p>
<p>Medman, can you share your data? It’d be interesting to see.</p>
<p>Data can be played with. One of the most common ways is to report the percentage of students who were offered admission to Med School who were “recommended” by a University committee. Sure it is easy to claim a high percentage when other colleges hand-pick the students they will count in their survey.</p>
<p>An earlier post reported Johns Hopkins percentage admittance to med school. I was surprised their percent was not higher. </p>
<p>There may be trend that more students are applying to med school because they didn’t want to enter the job market right now, and because they realized law school is often a waste of time and money.</p>
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<p>And yet the schools you are referring to STILL cherry pick who they “allow” to apply to med school by only submitting the necessary paperwork for those who reach a certain benchmark (GPA/MCAT) in effort to make their numbers look better. I call BS on any school who claims they have an 85%+ acceptance into med school. The numbers speak for themselves. The average applicant will apply to 15 med schools and fewer than half of those applicants will receive admission to ONE SINGLE MED SCHOOL. The truth is, it’s fiercely competitive. It has been said time and time again on CC, medman, and you can choose to believe it or not, “IT DOES NOT REALLY MATTER THAT MUCH WHERE YOU GET YOUR UNDERGRAD IF YOU WISH TO GO TO MED SCHOOL. Go to the most affordable school to avoid debt, get a high GPA and MCAT, and you’ll be competitive.”</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/1122176-bluedevilmikes-ten-step-guide-picking-premed-school.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/1122176-bluedevilmikes-ten-step-guide-picking-premed-school.html</a></p>
<p>norcalguy, a respected and knowledgeable CC poster on the pre-med forum has stated:
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<p>A UVA student who has a great GPA, great MCAT, and great ECs is every bit as competitive as another student from school X, Y, Z.</p>
<p>I think W&M reported 72% acceptance rate for the students that apply (they do not limit).</p>
<p>I sit on an admissions committee for a top medical school. It clearly does matter where you do your undergraduate education. Also, not all premed/health professions advisory offices/committees are equal. jc40 does not know what he/she is talking about.</p>
<p>medman–I’ll take your comments at face value. </p>
<p>But the key thing is, everyone who successfully completes medical school comes out a doctor. Unless he our she is vying for a tippy top fellowship or subspecialty, it doesn’t matter where they went to medical school, they are still a doctor. I am sure it is true that your, and other top medical schools, look closely at where one completed his or her undergraduate work, and will continue to do so as long as their applications exceed the seats in their schools. But, there are a lot of medical schools out there that would be thrilled to admit a high stat student from UVa, or from any other institution, for that matter. The key is the high stats.</p>
<p>So, I am understanding that UVA limits kids who apply to medical school and professors refuse to write recommendations for some?</p>
<p>Wait just a second, Medman…please quote me where I said, according to you, “all premed/health professions advisory offices/committees are equal.” I’ll acknowledge that premed advising varies from school to school. No, what I said, if you’ll re-read my post, is that a student who is exceptional at one school is not hindered in the med school admissions game by the undergraduate institution he/she chose to attend provided a high GPA, high MCAT, and fabulous ECs are achieved. These are the most critical components of the application. This is evidenced simply by looking at the incoming classes of the various med schools across the country. These students don’t all have degrees from top 20 degrees schools; they come from EVERYWHERE. Does the student from the top 15 school with the perfect GPA/great MCAT/strong ECs have a slight advantage over the kid from state U? Perhaps; however, UVA is very reputable and has high achieving students gain admittance into med schools each and every year.</p>
<p>^I agree with much of what you say. But why does UVa have an embarrassing low acceptance rate? And UC-Berkeley too? Also, undergraduate institution DOES matter, not only in terms of the prestige, but also because of the academic challenge the student faces (all A’s are not created equal, and the admissions committees know that), the preparation the institution provides can affect MCAT scores, the research/volunteer/service opportunities available, and the advising/health committee quality. Yes, the top medical schools in the country do look for diversity, and that includes diversity of undergraduate institutions represented–probably none moreso than Hopkins, actually. We have far more undergraduate institutional representation than most medical schools; nonetheless, over half of the entering class of 120 comes from 10 undergraduate schools. Believe me, one of those schools is not “no-name college.” Yes, an exceptional student from “no-name college” can still be accepted, but odds are the exceptional student from Hopkins, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, etc. has a far better chance (and I believe, the exceptional student has a better chance to be exceptional and manifest his/her exceptionality at those schools as well). Regardless of what you believe, if anything, about which I know, there is still the problem with UVa’s concerningly low medical school acceptance rate. Remember, the national acceptance rate to medical school is 46%, and UVa is 55-60%–that’s not a substantial edge that you are getting going to UVa!</p>
<p>As a UVa grad accepted to several med schools, I can tell you that UVa is held in high regard.</p>