Pre-med pgm placement success data.

<p>Hi everyone, I was wondering if anybody could help find more data like this <a href="http://www.life.umd.edu/p-undergraduate/entries-2000.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.life.umd.edu/p-undergraduate/entries-2000.html&lt;/a> this list gives the number of pre-med students admitted to particular med schools from undergrad at university of maryland. I am looking for this kind of data from undergrad at ivy league schools ( if it is released) or other similar elite schools like georgetown, etc. thanks.</p>

<p>You can find that kind of data on the Princeton website. Cornell releases applied/accepted charts but it's broken down by GPA/MCAT score rather than by medical school. I'm not sure if any other Ivy League schools release their medical school applicant info.</p>

<p>I tried looking and was unsuccessful, if you have links that would be helpful. Thanks again.</p>

<p>where's sakky when you need him?</p>

<p>I'm sure those links are bookmarked by him:)</p>

<p>the reason why most other places do not realize that sensitive information b/c they are either shady w. their own data or do no want to release it (hence, it ain't so good).</p>

<p>yeah, the reason I was looking for this data is because I wanted to see if there is really a difference in getting into better medical schools when one comes from a better undergraduate school. My parents want me to stay instate for undergrad and then go to a prestigious school for med school, but I was quite dissapointed at the number of students who even get in to med school, let alone a prestigious one from UMD, which has about a 6000 people per class.</p>

<p>I think just the % that get into ANY medical school from a particular undergrad is a good indication of how good of a premed program the school has. National avg. is around 50%. Berkeley is at about 60%. Cornell and MIT are around 75-80%. Princeton and most good LAC's are 90%+.</p>

<p>Because so few students get into prestigous medical schools each year, that number is likely to fluctuate a lot more each year than the acceptance rates I have quoted above.</p>

<p>if I could just find that data I could convince my parents to let me go to a prestigious out of state college (if of course I get accepted in the first place - I'm currently a junior)</p>

<p>A good website is mdapplicants.com It's not the general overview with percentages and whatnot that you're looking for, but you can use the profiles search to play around and find what you want. For instance, type in the undergraduate space the school your parents want(neglecting all the other search limiters), and then check for all students who got at least an interview at any school, this will show all the applicants that have profiles from that school. You can then look at each individual ones seeing their gpa mcat and e/cs and seeing where they were able to get into. You will find that all the people from state schools even from ones like chapel hill seem to have trouble getting into very prestigious private medical schools unless they have some sort of hook as well as excellent e/cs and scores. Whereas those that graduate from more prestigious undergrads still need good scores but nowhere close to those of the state schools.</p>

<p>thanks, a seperate question going along with what you said is what kind of "hooks" do they look for from undergrad? Currently as a junior thinking of what kinds of things I have on my resume I have many good things, but I dont really have any "hooks" as something I followed very thoroughly to the point where I excelled exceptionally. Any ideas on things that can be started right in college and made a hook within the 3 years I will be there before applying to med school?</p>

<p>Honestly by hooks I was talking along the lines of affirmative action since I saw completely different results in applicants between white/asian or some form of urm. There were only a few instances I saw though; I just assumed affirmative action still applied in med school since it did in undergrad. </p>

<p>But my best advice if you want to build up something in years to get into med school would be tons of research, and as much as possible medical related. Also, lots of community service, and as much as possible medical related. That way when the interviews come you will have alot of knowledge and experience about the medical field itself regardless of whatever you decide to major in. Aside from that focus everything onto your academics and mcat. But by all means if you have any other activity you're passionate about follow that as well, being a founder or president of any organization which involves a big time commitment always helps. I am myself only going to be a sophomore in undergrad so I'm mainly speaking from people I've talked to and friends that are several years older. This is the plan I'm following.</p>

<p>Oh, and going abroad and doing experience with medicine in other countries always helps. This is why its important to go to an undergrad witha lot of resources, they can provide you with the community service opportunities, research opportunities(moreso if connected to a med school on campus) and they can provide internships(some paid) and chances to go abroad. I think getting a chance to look at medicine from a completely different standpoint like seeing how its approached in a developing country really broadens your perspective on medicine. All these things will only be important if you allow them to be, they'll obviously be on the resume but I think there's probably essays and what not and you have to bring them to the forefront as to what kind of exposure you've had and passions you've developed from it.</p>

<p>Here's Princeton's</p>

<p><a href="http://web.princeton.edu/sites/hpa/data98-03.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://web.princeton.edu/sites/hpa/data98-03.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Harvard and Yale refuse to post their data online (it's only available hardcopy). Nevertheless, it's roughly the same as Princeton's. </p>

<p>Most popular places for MIT premeds:</p>

<p><a href="http://web.mit.edu/career/www/preprof/04acceptancedata.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://web.mit.edu/career/www/preprof/04acceptancedata.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>{Note that the last column in the MIT data is flawed, for it presumes that everybody who gets into a particular med-school will actually matriculate at that med-school, which is false. The top premeds will get into more than 1 med-school and so that obviously means that not everybody who gets admitted to a med-school will actually attend}</p>