<p>What i am saying is that these percentages can obviously have major fluctuations as the applicant pool decreases. </p>
<p>But if you want me to show you why these percentages are unreliable i will...</p>
<p>If you knew anything about the process....which you really dont seem to, you are just a net surfer...you would know that the schools you mentioned (harvard, etc) have a very rigorous application process for medical school. What happens is, all the students who want to apply to medical school will sit before a review board for an interview. The review board takes into account mostly your stats, and if they approve they will write you a reccomendation. This reccomendation will give you a major boost coming from a top school. Now as for the students that dont receive this rec...many are usually discouraged from applying to medical school. Why? Because the school does not want their percentage of admittance to drop. </p>
<p>Many other schools do not have this process. This process is common among medical school magnets, because they want to keep their percentages high, so they can appeal to people like you who surf the internet all day looking for these numbers.</p>
<p>If you get the grades in a public school, you will have a very good chance of getting accepted into a medical school. </p>
<p>Ultimately, what it boils down to is your MCAT and GPA. This whole bologna about being from a private/public school goes right out the window. If you have a student from CUNY Queens college, graduating with a chem major, 4.0 GPA, impressive EC's, 35N MCAT, and glowing recomendations essay...do not tell me he will be looked over for sum Harvard grad with so so ec's, a 29N MCAT, and a 3.4 GPA.</p>
<p>It wont happen, i will assure you. Granted Harvard is tough (and a private school)...there are kids from public schools who showed they wanted it more, and have proven themselves.</p>
<p>Again, i will refer back to my cousin who has a chair in the vasc surgery dept. at mt sinai and is on admissions for their medical school...he constantly tells me it makes NO DIFFERENCE where you go to undergrad, just do amazing and score high on your MCATs. They like seeing the applicants that had to work their way up from the bottom, from schools like CUNY queens college (which is where he graduated from...ya he didnt go to any of these $50,000 ivie league schools.)</p>
<p>He has told me they are the ones who are able to prove themselves worthy in med school. Hes often seen these kids from ivies who have been "silver-spooned" all their life and think they have the edge. Which to a certain degree they do, but watch out for those under-dogs.</p>