Premed and Northwestern

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>From when I visited Northwestern, I remember seeing that medical school acceptance rates were around (maybe slightly over) 80%. This is much better than the overall acceptance rate into med school, but it's a little low compare to other schools on a similar level to Northwestern. Schools like Wash U and Emory have acceptance rates of over 90%. I was wondering why Northwestern's was lower. Is this because they don't weed out and encourage applying, or because they grade very toughly?</p>

<p>(I also posted this in the Northwestern forum. Sorry if you had to see this thread twice.)</p>

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<p>i think just a lot of people apply there, since it is chicago, and more opportunity for residency</p>

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<p>I don't really understand. I'm talking about people applying from Northwestern undergrad to med school in general.</p>

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<p>Some of the schools that say they have 90%+ wouldn't write recommendation or make it obvious that they would write a mediocre recommendation (what do you expect me to say???) to discourage weaker applicants from applying. There was an article on that about JHU. I thought I read that WashU's % was like 84%; are you sure they both got 90% anyway? MIT's rate was like 77% in one of the recent years and Cornell's rate has been around 77-80% in the past few years. So Northwestern's rate is pretty comparable to its peers.</p>

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<p>MIT and Cornell (for premed) are notorious for grade deflation though. Do premed courses at Northwestern suffer from similar grade deflation?</p>

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Schools like Wash U and Emory have acceptance rates of over 90%.

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<p>I would like to see the evidence of this. 90%+ acceptance rates, without game-playing (like using a committee to discourage or bar weak applicants) is generally a trait of schools like HYPS. I would be surprised to see Washington or Emory fall into this category, although, like I said, I'm open to seeing the data.</p>