<p>On occasion, I encounter references to med school acceptance rates for pre med majors, is there a list of colleges with respective medical school acceptance rates. Such as Harvard 95% med school acceptance for Molecular and Cell Biology majors.</p>
<p>Thank you</p>
<p>I would desperately like any info on this</p>
<p>I think majority of stuents major in Biology but that seems to be changing.
Once you get into med school, a science major would help you in the first 2 years when it’s all basic core sciences. The exam taken at the end of 2nd year is the most crucial as it determines your residency so some strong science knowledge can make a difference.</p>
<p>I read somewhere that physics majors do very well on MCATs and LSATs because of the logical thinking skills they develop throughout their major.</p>
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<p>You may also be aware that reoprted %'age of premed successes from one school is obtained differently than from another. Some schools take ALL of their premeds and base %'age on how many got into med school. Some schools do not provide needed documentation to those who they feel do not qualify for med school and therefore their reported numbers are after pre-selection. Just something to consider.</p>
<p>I’ve worked with couple of professors and Dean of Medicine at University of Florida recent years and here’s what they told me unanimously.</p>
<p>Any majors that requires a lot of lab hours. (popular ones are Microbiology, Biochemistry…) </p>
<p>Out of science majors, Psychology and Chemistry had the lowest acceptance rate out of all pre-med majors, whereas Biochemistry was rated (or considered as, more or less.) as number one. Following biochem are: microbio, biology, APK…so forth.
Biochem averaged about total of 40% acceptance rate from last year (and previous years).</p>
<p>For non-science majors, the highest accepted majors were Music-performance and Bio-engineering. Both majors had total rate of 60% (each). Clearly, these two majors out-rated science majors!
-interesting fact: Med school admissions look for music majors because musicians are believed to have a special ability of learning things. (Apparently something in the occipital lobe triggers…i don’t know the deets) </p>
<p>Common misconception:
-Biochem department having 40% acceptance rate does NOT mean out of 5 people 2 people get accepted. This simply means that out of certain # of biochem applicants, 40% of competitive applicants were selected not RANDOMLY 40% of the population was selected.
-Likewise, doing music won’t necessarily increase your possibility of getting into the school. You have got to prove that you’re capable of doing science major stuff WHILE you’re non-science major.
-GPA of 3.5 or higher is considered as being competitive. if you’re going for top rankings, 4.0 for sure.</p>