From the number of graduates who apply to medical school from Johns Hopkins, Cornell, and Northwestern, what percentage of them actually get accepted? (any medical school – it doesn’t have to be reknown or in the U.S.) Any help would be greatly appreciated.
<p>I know the number for JHU, it's 91%</p>
<p>Wow, that's a good number. Where can you find the information? Thanks!</p>
<p>Keep in mind that Hopkins & Cornell have a reputaion for being viciously cutthroat. Schools like Hopkins & Cornell weed out their premeds thru rigorous frosh & soph courses. </p>
<p>How many people that left high school wanting to be a doctor but didn't even make it to the MCAT is a figure that is not released. </p>
<p>That being said, all 3 are top choices, with acceptance rates over 80%. You just have to decide if the cutthroat environment is one you would thrive in or buckle under.</p>
<p>oops, heh heh, stambliark is right, I forgot to mention the fierce competition. By the way, I got the number from JHU's website, and I confirmed it through an info session there</p>
<p>Stambliark41, when you say the courses are viciously cutthroat, what do you mean? Is the workload extremely overwhelming compared to other schools, or something else?</p>
<p>heh heh, I'm going to answer your question looking 123.</p>
<p>Cutthroat competition is basically when the students work extremely hard to beat each other. Since schools like JHU do their best to resist grade inflation, even if you do extremely good work, you may only end up with a B- because 3 other people did even better work.</p>
<p>I've also heard that friends will not help each other because of the competition (that kinda defeats the definition of a friend, but oh well). </p>
<p>The workload is not necessarily harder, it's the work that you must do if you wish to stay on top of the other students just waiting to take you down.</p>
<p>From what I have heard, the courses do have a lot of work. But that wasn't really what I'm referring to. What I mean is that med school is a high priority at those 2 schools. Therefore, people know they are competing against their classmates in order to maintain med school eligibility. Because classmates are directly competing, you have the scenarios of friends not helping each other, etc. Not everyone at JHU or Hopkins is like that, but there is def. some of that going on.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that some of this happens at all top schools, but only JHU & Cornell (to my knowledge) have that reputation.</p>
<p>so... does anyone know anything about Northwestern?</p>
<p>They have a top-notch med school... Other than that, I don't know. Sorry!</p>
<p>What do you want to know?</p>
<p>Cornell's acceptance rate was 77% last year and 80% the year before. Probably around the same for Northwestern. I've heard that JHU prescreens its applicants but I'm not sure.</p>
<p>I can't speak for JHU but premed at Cornell is not "viscious." Students collaborate a lot in labs and forming study groups. Last semester, at 3AM on the day of the organic chem final, I was helping a fellow premed with orgo instead of getting sleep. There was no benefit to me since I had finished studying already but a friend's a friend.</p>
<p>norcalguy, how tough is Cornell? From what i've read on other threads, people have been indicating that the work is extremely hard when compared to other selective schools</p>
<p>what is prescreening?</p>
<p>wow, norcalguy. That was really nice of you. Your friend is lucky.</p>
<p>I think what norcalguy meant by prescreening, is that JHU will only allow the students they think will be accepted to med school to apply. First they will weed out many students through the rigorous pre-med courses (ie. organic chem). Then, I think you need a letter from the school dean, or from the pre-med committee of the school as part of the med school application. If the committee doesn't think a student will be accepted, they won't write the letter.
(Please correct me if I'm wrong norcalguy!)</p>
<p>I know Duke boosts the fact that it recommends ALL of its students (or those that choose to apply) to medical school. At first, I thought that wasn't much to brag about, but if other schools, such as JHU, does not recommend all of its students, then I guess they should certainly be proud of that.</p>
<p>JHU should recommend all of its students! (That would be the nice thing to do :)) Does anyone know how badly a student would have to perform in order to NOT get a recommendation?</p>