<p>Re med school admission rates: I don’t know the pre-med scene at Swarthmore, but I can think of a few not-necessarily-bad reasons why a college’s med school admission rates might be low.</p>
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<li><p>The college supports all of its students who want to apply to medical school, even students whose odds of admission are low. Some colleges strongly discourage their weaker students from applying, which raises their med school admission rates.</p></li>
<li><p>Students might not be interested in lower-ranked medical schools. I don’t know if this is a common attitude in pre-med circles, but I have met plenty of people who chose only to apply to top-ranked law schools or top-ranked business schools or top-ranked graduate programs. They didn’t want to go deep into debt for a degree that wasn’t going to put them into a good position to achieve their goals. An all-or-nothing attitude would result in lower admission rates too.</p></li>
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