<p>What is the acceptance rate for pre-med shools? Is there any site that shows it for the different schools? I heard that medical school acceptance rates are high, when people say that do they mean pre-med?</p>
<p>Med school acceptance rates are not high unless you think 5-10% acceptance rates for mid-tier med schools are high. Statistically, med school is tougher to get into than law school, pharmacy school, dentistry school, or any other graduate school.</p>
<p>Remember that these are statistics, and therefore, lie.</p>
<p>There are a little over 16,000 seats available each year at US med schools, both MD and DO.</p>
<p>There are 33-35,000 applicants for those seats each year. This is the basis of the most often quoted figure of 45-50% med school admission rate. </p>
<p>Knowing that the odds start off against you, your average to upper average med school applicant will apply to 15-25 different schools. We now have 700,000 applications chasing the 16,000 seats. This creates the lunacy and "shot gun" approach that we call med school admissions.</p>
<p>Remember that the 1/2 of applicants that don't get admitted aren't incompetent slackers. The application, reference, and pre-requisite process keeps this from happening to any significant level. Also remember that, ego issues aside, there are no bad US medical schools. You will receive the same level of instruction at every school from Cambridge to East Jesus,Texas.</p>
<p>Net effect is that every med school will show acceptance rates from 3-15%. The sheer number of applications that are chasing any available seat mathmatically requires it.</p>
<p>Wow, I'm amazed by the stats. I was getting excited when people said schools like birmingham-southern here in alabama have a 95% acceptance rate. So why do people not get accepted? I have a 3.6 GPA and will take 6 or so AP's by the end of High School. My SAT score was a 1360. But I think my strongest point is my other activities, since I'm on the tennis team and have won state piano competitions. So do you think I cold get accepted to schools like Emory, Vanderbilt, Boston University. Or even UAB or BSC.</p>
<p>Sorry, my mistake in looking at your question. My answer was relevant for med school admission, not undergraduate schools that happen to have a pre-med program.</p>
<p>Pre-med as an undergraduate is a selection of course work that will cover the minimum requirements of graduate med schools. Some schools have it as a separate degree, most just have it as a reference while you undertake a more specific major. After all, what would you do with a BS,Pre-Med if you did not get into med school?</p>
<p>Undergraduate collges are not going to look at your stats any differently just because you think you want to be a pre-med major vs. Greek classics. Some might be looking to fill their science dept more than the language dept so will take people that have done well in science knowing they will ultimately gravitate in that direction when it is time to choose a major.</p>
<p>Unless you are trying to get into an accelerated BS straight to MD program, you will not see a difference in undergraduate admission rates for one major over another.</p>
<p>Again, my apology for mis-reading the question.</p>
<p>So it's not hard to get into pre-medical school?</p>
<p>Is there any way to skip pre-med and go straight to medical school?</p>
<p>it's not called pre-med, it's called college. Getting into pre-med is the same as getting into college, most schools don't even have you declare your major till your second year. Lots of people go into college thinking they're pre-med and end up realizing they can't go that route either due to change of mind, too much work, or bad grades, so saying you're premed doesnt mean much as far as getting into med school. Most schools don't even have a pre-med major, all pre-med is is a track, you have to take a year each of bio, chem, physics, and orgo, and sometimes math. All the rest of your classes depend on major. There's no way to completely skip college in America. The closest to it would be 6 or 7-year programs which just reduces the length of college and lets you apply to med school out of high school. These are alot more competitive than the respective college itself.</p>
<p>How smart do you have to be to skip pre-med? So if I want to go to pre-med it's basically just regular college? If so, isn't it easy getting into it?</p>
<p>Smarter then anyone in existence. You have to have a Bach. degree to go to med school simple as that. You need to fulfill the bio,chem,orgo chem, physics, and sometimes math and english requirement to get into med school. Once you have all that taken, plus MCATs taken, you can apply. But you also need other experiences, and almost always a Bach. degree.</p>
<p>So the only big problem is getting into med school? What if I start taking some of those classes such as Biology next year (sophomore in high school) could I graduate sooner?</p>
<p>No. Because med schools do not like using AP credit. You would need to retake it in college or take a higher level class from the same subject. You could take summer courses in it but its not recommended for med school. Just follow the normal route like everyone else or try to get into a combined program to finish quicker, if that matters for you.</p>
<p>How much faster would it be? This is the way it goes, pre-med (college), medical school and then majoring, I want to do interventional radiology. This would take around 12 years or so right? What do you actually do in Medical School?</p>
<p>Years 1 + 2 of med school = textbook learning (reading, reading, and oh yes, more reading)</p>
<p>Years 3 + 4 of med school = rotations in a hospital (actual hands on learning)</p>
<p>My advice would be to not worry so much about how long it takes. (If you have to ask how long, this is not the right field for you)</p>
<p>Enjoy your 4 undergrad years or the 2/3/4 college years of your BA/MD program. (You asked earlier how much time one could cut off by studying ahead or going to a BA/MD program. The time ranges from one year to at most two years, so even then, becoming a doctor is a long journey!)</p>
<p>Study hard during year 1 + 2 of med school. And then, at years 3 + 4, it would make sense to start taking a look around and seeing what field of medicine is right for you!</p>
<p>To settle on "interventional radiology" at such a young age is like deciding to marry the first guy/gal you see. You'll change your mind hundreds of times before finally deciding!</p>
<p>You're not going to have to worry about your specialty for around ten years(3 more years of high school, 3-4 years of college, then med school). Don't even think about things like interventional radiology, not to mention you dont choose the interventional part for around thirteen years. How have you already decided your life so specifically like that at 15 anyways? Is this you talking or your parents, just worry about doing good in high school, and yes going premed is like getting into any college, but in college you'll have to choose an actual major. Go to the combined programs board if you're intent on fixing yourself to medicine at such an early age. You won't need this board for at least another 3 years.</p>
<p>I have read a lot, and I mean a lot. I am the one that decided on the topic, and definantely not my parents (whom are both engineers). I really like this topic, it greatly interests me. What is this combined program you have talked about? Where can I learn about this?</p>
<p>You will change your mind, I know from experience. No matter how much research you have done, you will change your mind. As far as combined programs there is a forum here about them.</p>
<p>You can learn about combined programs in the "Multiple Degree Programs" section of this forum...it's the link right above the one to this forum, I believe. There's plenty of info there.</p>
<p>I will be starting as a freshman at University of Florida in the fall. I applied to 5 BS/MD programs (which are combined degree programs which are also known as guaranteed medical school programs, etc.) Anyway, I got rejected from every single one of those programs, with a 4.2 GPA, a 1510 (old SAT), and decent ECs. Here is a list of the programs I applied to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Rutgers BS/MD</li>
<li>Penn State BS/MD</li>
<li>UCF/USF transfer program (you do 3 years at U of Central Florida, and transfer to U of South Florida)</li>
<li>Ohio NEUCOM (sends a common app. to 3 diff. NOrtheastern Ohio schools for their combined degree programs)</li>
<li>Northwestern HPME (this is realllly hard to get into)</li>
</ul>
<p>Here's a list of other combined degree programs you can look into
- Brown PLME (extremely hard, like HPME)
- U of Miami 6 year program (hard to get into, and once you get in, it is hell on earth)
- U of Albany I think...some school in Albany, NY has it
- George Washington University has one, i think</p>
<p>And University of Florida has this thing called the junior honors program, which you apply to in your sophomore year (of college), and only 12 ppl get in, but they are guaranteed a seat in the UF med-school (which is a pretty decent school).</p>
<p>This is my advice to you. Go to a University, major in something that really interests you. I was looking at acceptance data for med-schools...The percentages of ppl from each major is the same as the percentage of ppl accepted from each major. So really, you can choose almost any major you want and go to med-school. Your focus right now should be on developing kick-ass study habits that will help you in your 4 years of University, because it is those 4 years along with your MCAT that determines if you get into Med-School, and what med-school you get into. and I'm pretty sure the MCAT matters a lot more when applying to med-schools, than the SAT does when applying to colleges.</p>
<p>Right now, just focus on getting into somewhere nice, and networking with people to get you research later on, or something</p>
<p>TCNJ and Rice definately have ba/md programs as well. I only applied to one (Penn St/Jeff) and got in but am going to be attending a traditional 4 year university for premed studies. The thing about the BA/MD programs are that they are mediocre schools looking for the top applicants who would most likely be taken by the top tier med schools, so they try to snag them early. If you want to be a clinician, it doesn't really matter what med school you go to, but if you want to do research like me, you are supposed to shoot for the best you can get into (which is why I didn't want to cut myself short with BA/MD programs).
It really just depends what you want.</p>
<p>"You will receive the same level of instruction at every school from Cambridge to East Jesus,Texas."
-Whoa, that's kind of going far, no?</p>
<p>Also, most medical schools require an interview, so lets say you apply to 20 schools, does that mean 20 individual interviews, in 20 different(and probably DISTANT) locations!</p>