<p>My daughter has just been accepted to the College of the Holy Cross. She was attracted to the college because of its' high per centage of premeds accepted into medical school. On the college website it list the medical schools its' graduates have been accepted into within the last 7 years. However, is a random review of medical school student profile and roster list I could not find any HC graduates. Does anyone have a recent list of medical schools their graduates have been accepted into?</p>
<p>Addison, I’m not sure what you are looking for is as important as you might think. The reality is that the %age of med school acceptances from your child’s school is NOT as important as how SHE actually does GPA wise in college and her MCAT scores.</p>
<p>I guess I am looking for additional info. HC gives a list of medical schools their graduates have been accepted into over the last seven years. My question is…what does the list look like this year? Do most get into U Mass nearby or Tufts or is it varied? GPA and MCAT are important but it does appear that some schools are more selective if that is your home state.</p>
<p>Be careful with statements such as “x percentage of our premeds get into medical school”. Many schools tightly control who they let apply to medical school, so their acceptance rates are very high. Don’t let this be the most important criterion in choosing a school.</p>
<p>I’ve done my training all over the country (state undergrad, in state med school, out of state pediatrics residency, worked at Ivy while husband did radiology fellowship there) and with med students, residents, fellows and attendings from a wide variety of educational backgrounds: do not get over-focused on the place your child does their undergrad or medical school! Residency is really what matters most, and by then the top residents and then fellows (if they go through subspecialty training) will never know where their colleagues did undergrad or medical school, for the most part. Save money and go to state schools if they’re good, and focus on the best residency one can match for. </p>
<p>I did my residency with kids from state schools from at least five states, tiny LACs, Stanford, small religious schools and the Ivies. The only reason I knew where they went to college and med school was because I was Chief Resident and had to review their files. The residents themselves cared not a bit where their colleagues went. The caliber of these student doctors was all excellent, because it was an excellent residency program but their ranking, if you would do it, was all over the board and did not correlate in the slightest with the prestige of their undergrad or med school. Ditto at the Ivy where I supervised residents.</p>
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<p>How does a school control who applies to med school? Do you mean that they do this by virtue of weed out classes?</p>
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<p>and by reccommendations written (or not written) by professors</p>
<p>^^^ and who they choose to write committee letters of rec for.</p>
<p>added…crossposted…“great minds” bajamm</p>
<p>“Students who wish to apply to medical and allied health professions schools do not have to be evaluated by the Committee, but it is very unusual to apply without the Committee’s recommendation. It often sends a “red flag” to medical schools, as almost all Holy Cross medical school applicants apply through the Committee. If you decide to apply without the Committee’s support, the Health Professions Office will forward your recommendation letters to medical schools for you.”</p>
<p>[Health</a> Professions Advisory Committee](<a href=“http://academics.holycross.edu/healthprofessions/committee]Health”>http://academics.holycross.edu/healthprofessions/committee)</p>
<p>No matter where she goes to college it is HER record that matters, not the percentage or absolute numbers that go on to medical school. A neighbor tried this tactic and didn’t get in. He would have had a better education with more students interested in their chosen major than just getting into medical school at our public flagship. He eventually went to a DO school so he did meet his goal later. I believe he found it too easy to get off track with not studying at this school.</p>
<p>ditto #4, 6, 7, 8. Students should go where they can get the highest GPAs, and prep like heck for the MCAT.</p>
<p>Brutal weed-out classes are the norm for schools that brag about their high med school acceptance rates. Only a fraction of those starting freshman year as “pre-med” will actually apply to med school.</p>
<p>Agree with these comments and I’d recommend you go to the PreMed Topics forum for excellent information and experienced members. There are some sticky threads at the top that give some good basic information about UG schools, premed, MCATs, etc.</p>
<p>I would never want my child to go to an undergrad college that somehow limits their students’ access to medical school application. That is so unfair. If a student wants to try, they should try. Reflected glory for their college should not be the ultimate goal.</p>
<p>The schools will say they won’t limit your student but as the above posters mentioned most schools do committee letters and they control the nature of the letter, when the letter gets sent out (which is crucial in the timeline for med school apps, the earlier the better, as in early June…some letters go out in August)…this can hold up your app rendering it incomplete. </p>
<p>Yes, you can go without a committee letter, however, be prepared to explain WHY you didn’t get one.</p>
<p>The numbers you are looking for OP are for those that matruculate directly out of college. Son’s med school has many students who did not attend right after college. And those numbers an undergrad would not have. So I can think of numerous reasons why those numbers could be really inaccurate.</p>
<p>Don’t base her choice of UG on where the highest percentages attend, too many uncertain variables. Rather, again, as other posters stated, she needs to go where she will succeed, do well GPA-wise, learn what she needs to score well on the MCAT and truly develop herself as an interesting and personable individual. That is what med schools are looking for.</p>
<p>Kat</p>