Pre-Med

College Search & Selection
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<p>Which pre-med programs have the highest medical school acceptance rate?</p>

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<p>You can find that info but it will be meaningless for at least 2 reasons [ul][<em>]Students are not the same at all colleges. It should not be a surprise that Stanford students have a higher acceptance rate than the local branch of your state U.[</em>]Some colleges screen applicants and only write a favorable committee letter for their strongest students. Not surprisingly, their acceptance rate is pretty high.[/ul] Amherst has an excellent premed guide online that I suggest you take the time to read thru in order to educate yourself about the process and how to maximize your chances. They say in part

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<p>To expand on mikemac’s point, many schools use organic chem and several other classes as ‘weeders’ to reduce the pool of pre-meds. Those who are left standing are the strongest candidates, so the school’s pre-med acceptance rates would not be indicative of anything meaningful to you. You’ll need to talk to each school you are applying to about how supportive they are of premeds, etc…</p>

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<p>Duke, Hopkins, Holy Cross, Tufts, F&M have great pre-med programs/reputations.</p>

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<p>many schools use organic chem and several other classes as ‘weeders’ to reduce the pool of pre-meds. Those who are left standing are the strongest candidates, so the school’s pre-med acceptance rates would not be indicative of anything meaningful to you.</p>

<p>Exactly!</p>

<p>So, going to any particular school is not going to guarantee you that you’ll get an A in both OChem classes. If you don’t emerge from your pre-med req’d classes and your other courses with a high GPA, you will either end up changing your career plans or find yourself rejected at med schools.</p>

<p>No school is going to turn a student who isn’t strong in the sciences into such a student.</p>

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<p>Some schools, many from what I hear, wont give recs to students that they feel wont get in. I can see their point in a sense,why go through it all if they know the outcome will be grim, but there are doctor’s out there that didn’t have perfect GPA’s and MCAT scores.
I know Holy Cross told my daughter’s friend, A- or look into maybe doing something else. You should ask the professors, they know how hard it is to apply. HC does have excellent admission rates though.
(Note the rec importance)</p>

<p>From their site:
10. How successful are Holy Cross students who apply to medical and dental school?</p>

<p>Holy Cross applicants have done exceptionally well in gaining admission to medical school. In each of the last 10 years, for example, Holy Cross applicants to medical school have been accepted at approximately twice the national acceptance rate. For the entering classes of 1998-2002, 87% of Holy Cross applicants were accepted into at least one medical school. (Keep in mind applicants first gained a recommendation from the program committee.) Almost everyone who received committee support for application to dental school, optometry school, or podiatry school is accepted. Over a 10 year period, Holy Cross averaged about 50-55 students a year who went on to health professional schools. In the past several years, we have had at least one student accepted at each of the following list of medical schools.
<a href=“http://academics.holycross.edu/healthprofessions/schools[/url]”>http://academics.holycross.edu/healthprofessions/schools&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I agree with the importance of a high GPA. That’s why sometimes kids who are looking for the “toughest, highest ranked schools,” may end up with lesser GPAs than if they just went to their state flagship or good private school that are strong in sciences. </p>

<p>The benchmark for GPA (in my opinion) needs to be 3.7+ in sciences and overall. Obviously, a B in American History is not going to be as damaging as a B in OChem…</p>

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<p>I agree also, but talking to doctors I work with, some schools are harder to get that GPA at. You can give more rigorous workloads at some than others, (believe me students compare notes) and curves differ. Med schools get to know the caliber of each college (at least the top ones) There are many fine med schools though, some students have their eye on just certain ones. I also think the MCAT evens things out. It’s supposed to be a killer.</p>

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<p>Cornell, JHU, WUSTL
Top undergrad medical programs so probably high med acceptance rate.</p>