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<p>Champ, I’m afraid that you are quite confused. There are no multiple acceptances in these numbers.</p>
<p>The figure of 123 Princeton applicants entering medical school in 2010 includes alumni. A great many students take a year off after undergraduate school prior to entering medical school. Many others have decided on a medical career too late in their undergraduate careers to have time to complete medical school prerequisites by the time of graduation. Many of these students finish their pre-med courses at another institution and enter medical school the year after that. This is true at all of Princeton’s peers and, in fact, at most universities. </p>
<p>Neither Harvard nor Yale reports exact numbers of graduating students headed to medical school or law school and Yale confuses comparisons even more by waiting a full year after graduation to compile its statistics. However, overall, Princeton has, among these three, the highest percentage of each graduating class going directly to graduate school and the percentage breakdown of those attending law, medical and graduate school in the arts and sciences is about the same at all three. Overall, Harvard will send somewhere around 50 graduating seniors to medical school each year and Yale somewhere in the low 40’s. Princeton is the smallest of the three schools while Harvard is the largest and on a percentage basis each of the three sends about the same number to medical school directly after graduation.</p>
<p>Here are the closest comparisons I could find.</p>
<p>Class-------------------------Employment–Graduate School–Other Activities</p>
<p>Harvard ’11 (6 months after graduation)----71%---------21%------------8%
Princeton ‘11 (6 months after graduation)–73%----------23%-----------4%
Yale ’10 (one year after graduation)---------75%----------21%-----------4%</p>
<p>Harvard: [OCS-Students:</a> Jobs / Senior Survey 2011](<a href=“http://www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu/students/jobs/seniorsurvey.htm]OCS-Students:”>http://www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu/students/jobs/seniorsurvey.htm)
Princeton: [Princeton</a> Office of Career Services 2010-2011 Annual Report](<a href=“Princeton Office of Career Services 2010-2011 Annual Report by Career Services At Princeton University - Issuu”>Princeton Office of Career Services 2010-2011 Annual Report by Career Services At Princeton University - Issuu)
Yale: [Yale</a> “Factsheet” | Office of Institutional Research](<a href=“http://oir.yale.edu/yale-factsheet#GraduateActivities]Yale”>http://oir.yale.edu/yale-factsheet#GraduateActivities)</p>