<p>From a class size of about 700 students:</p>
<p>Holy Cross students applying to medical school: 53</p>
<p>Accepted to at least one medical school: 45 (or 86 percent)</p>
<p>National average of applicants accepted to medical school: 44 percent</p>
<p>Holy Cross ALANA (African-American, Latin American, Asian-American, and Native American heritage) students applying to medical school: 6</p>
<p>ALANA students accepted to medical school: 5</p>
<p>Do you know how many freshman go into HC with the intentions of going on into Med school? Basically how many drop the premed program?</p>
<p>I do not know but I do know that you apply specifically to the premed program itself in addition when you apply for freshman admissions. You must apply to get in and some are not accepted.</p>
<p>Yeah I got into the premed program for next year but not the bio major. I’m just a little concerned about how badly they weed out those in the premed program. Only 53 students applying to medical school seems awfully low and I dont have any background in AP or Honor science courses. But thanks for those stats they are very interesting.</p>
<p>I really dont think they “weed out”… i think it is more voluntary. Many people decide that they do no want to do it because they dont like it anymore or it is too hard.</p>
<p>Of course, you don’t have to be in a pre-med program to get in. Just take a year each of bio, chem, organic chem, physics and some calculus. I was a psychology major and got into Tufts.</p>
<p>the thing they were saying is that it is tough to get enrolled in those classes (especially chem) if you arent in the program.</p>
<p>2bizze - i am actually interested in hearing your story. did you take summer science courses are other universities to fulfill the pre-reqs? Being not registered as a student within the pre-med program, did Holy Cross faculty write your recommendations??</p>
<p>A question that I had specifically for you was to ask your advice on choosing science professors (whom to avoid, whom to enroll with)</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Sorry to give the impression that I was a HC grad. I went to a state college with FAR less prestige than HC. We didn’t have pre-med advisors. I was an older student (started med-school at 26), I took all the courses, got some professors to write letters for me and wrote an interesting essay about bicycling across the US. There were a number of students in my state college classes who had graduated from better schools who were just finishing up their science requirements. It’s not a bad route. Spend some time after college working in an urban clinic or a lab. Good Luck.</p>
<p>It is not difficult to get into the Chem classes if you are not pre-med, but you must declare a chemistry major. I’m not sure how many get “weeded out” of the pre-med program; however, it is not entirely voluntary. I believe that if you don’t have a 3.1 GPA in the sciences they will not recommend you (you also are unlikely to get into med school with a lower GPA anyway). That being said, I think 50+ supported applicants out of 700 graduates is a pretty big number.</p>