<p>So I was looking through the US News "Best Graduate Schools" website (<a href="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/med/brief/mdrrank_brief.php%5B/url%5D">http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/med/brief/mdrrank_brief.php</a>) for medical schools and noticed a scary trend...</p>
<p>Why is the acceptance rate for practically every top-50 med school in the single digits? I thought undergrad was hard enough, but that's insane! Is there a reason why it's so low?</p>
<p>only like 125 accredited med schools in the nation, totaling around 16,000 seats, thats why you do combined =)</p>
<p>It's not that there are more people applying to med schools than to colleges, it's just that there are very few spaces. As docontheroc said, there are only 125 allopathic medical schools in the US, each with a class size of only several hundred. Compare that with the thousands of colleges in the country, many with an incoming class size of several thousand.</p>
<p>also, realize that most med skool applicants apply to 10-20 medical schools each... with everyone applying to so many medical schools, there are thousands of applications filed for maybe 100-250 spots at most med schools....
medical school admission is VERY competitive
...that is why u do garuanteed accelerated med programs ;-)</p>