<p>what schools have high acceptance rates to med school?</p>
<p>do schools post this info on their websites?</p>
<p>im wondering about this too.. anyone know?</p>
<p>I know Duke's was 85% last year, and I've heard that Hopkins's is in the lower 90%'s. I'm guessing pretty much any of your "top" undergrad schools will have high med school acceptance rates b/c of they've got the school's rep backing up the applicant, plus there's the weeder courses which take out unqualified to-be premeds to begin with.</p>
<p>Swarthmore-87% in multiple tries</p>
<p>I don't know exact numbers for many schools, but I'll throw in a few thoughts:</p>
<p>*Some schools don't allow students to apply to med school (essentially refuse to approve them) unless they meet certain requirements. This has the effect of improving a school's med school admissions rate, but is a really bad thing. Imagine paying for four years of tuition and being told that they aren't going to allow you to apply to med school.
*Admissions rate is the percentage who get into at least one med school. Nationally, only about 1/2 of people who apply get in anywhere.
*Small liberal arts colleges seem to do quite well.<br>
*There is a lot of weed-out at any school - try to find the percentage of students who come in as pre-med and then those who are actually at med school. If they are weeding out all but a few students, it doesn't matter how many of those go to Harvard Med unless you are one of those students who makes it.</p>
<p>yea ariesathena is totally right, those ivies wont allow you to apply because they want their numbers high. Its easy to have a low 90s acceptance rate when you have 20 students each with near perfect GPA's MCATs applying to med schools. I totally agree with your post, well said</p>
<p>I'm not sure about the other Ivies but I'm sure Harvard doesn't practice the policy of "not allowing you to apply." Most of the weed-out of pre-med students comes from the pre-med classes themselves (the orgo sequence mostly) or new interests that students develop that may push them in new directions.</p>
<p>most schools have a council that you meet. Brandeis does it, im sure Harvard does. They decide if they will give you their reccomendation to apply. (Without it, you might as well not apply, so thats how they basically say you cant apply)</p>
<p>Ariesathena's made an excellent point about LAC's having a good record of placing students in graduate programs. Ever hear of Hope College in Holland, MI?
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In Loren Pope's book "Colleges That Change Lives" Hope is listed as one of 40 schools that are "a well kept secret in a status industry. They outdo the Ivies and research universities in producing winners." </p>
<p>Graduate school acceptance rates are remarkably high at Hope.
85% of those graduating seniors registered with the prelaw advisor were accepted into law schools.
90% of applicants with grade point averages of 3.4 or above have been accepted by medical schools over the last 10 years.
Over the same 10 year period 97% of applicants with grade point averages of 3.2 or above were accepted into dental schools.
In 2005 100% of students passed the state nursing licensing exam on their first attempt.
The percentage of accounting majors passing the C.P.A. exam is above the national average.
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<p>Thanks guys. Can't remember the last time that I got so much agreement. :) </p>
<p>Re: weed-out courses - during a tour, ask what percentage of students who start bio, chem, and orgo finish (i.e. don't drop), and ask for the grade distributions. Fastest way to cut your med school applicants in half is to set the median at a B-/C+, so that half of the people get Cs or Ds in orgo.</p>
<p>Note that summer courses sometimes have much nicer grading schemes.</p>
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<p>most schools have a council that you meet. Brandeis does it, im sure Harvard does. They decide if they will give you their reccomendation to apply.</p>
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<p>Harvard certainly does not have anything like this. Med school and other applications are handled by the Houses. Resident and non-resident tutors are assigned to each interested undergraduate to help with the application process. Interview coaching, essay editing, MCAT prep, etc. all happen via the relationship between tutors and student. The tutors are all HMS students or residents at Harvard's hospitals, and their job is to get THEIR assigned student into medical school. There is no college-wide panel whose job it is to make the numbers look good. Not surprisingly, the numbers look excellent anyway.</p>
<p>I can't temember if it was Ursinus or Juniata but another school in the Pope book had a VERY very good med school placement. I think Ursinus.</p>
<p>So Duke is 85%?</p>
<p>According to Rice's website, it is 92%.</p>
<p>Anyone know what Vanderbilt has for an acceptance rate? I can't seem to find it.</p>
<p>You can probably find the information on the school's website by searching under "pre-med", or medical school acceptance rate.</p>
<p>Duke's acceptance rate was actually listed as 91.3%, with the national average as 50.4%. (2004)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.aas.duke.edu/quickfacts.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.aas.duke.edu/quickfacts.html</a></p>
<p>Hope College also has the highest rate of undergraduate research in biology published in peer-reviewed journals. Higher than JHU. Higher than Duke. Higher than all of the Ivies combined. </p>
<p>Ursinus does indeed have an excellent pre-med program, as does Kalamazoo. </p>
<p>The reality is that if you can get into any of the so-called top schools, you shouldn't have any problem getting into med school - it just isn't that hard - UNLESS you are weeded out. The average student at JHU, who might be weeded out, would likely be a top student at a local state university, with more research opportunities, and better mentoring, and no weed-out. And less debt.</p>
<p>Duke, Hopkins, Tufts, Stanford all very high. On the East Coast, some LAC's like Holy Cross and F&M, and Bowdoin have very strong pre-med programs.</p>
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<blockquote> <blockquote> <p>"most schools have a council that you meet. Brandeis does it, im sure Harvard does. They decide if they will give you their reccomendation to apply. (Without it, you might as well not apply, so thats how they basically say you cant apply)"</p> </blockquote> </blockquote>
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<p>This completely untrue. Appying to medical school is a very individual process. You will make it or not judged on your academic achievements. The school you go to will have some bearing on your success but it will more reflective of your personal performance. For example, 82% of Brandeis applicants were accepted to med school. This reflects the caliber and level of motivation of kids that go there, not an artificial screening process.</p>
<p>I'd be cautious of comparing the med school acceptace percentages of different schools, since many have caveats.</p>
<p>At Boston College, "90% of of BC applicants with at least a 3.2 science gpa and at least a 9.0 on the MCAT were admitted to medical school" for the Class of 2004 (this is from the 2005 BC bulletin). BC profs mostly grade on the curve and BC does not have in-/de-flation.</p>
<p>Pomona College has like a 90% med school admission rate...or so they say</p>
<p>The schools with lower acceptance rates tend to have higher med school admissions rates. However, you might be that 5% from Harvard or xyz U that doesn't make it, so going to the school with the highest med school acceptance rate might not necessarily be the best idea. Your happiness, for instance, might be much higher at a school with a 10% less acceptance rate, but this difference might cause you to be in the acceptance percentage, and not in the rejection percentage, that you may have occupied going to Higher Med School Acceptance Rate U.</p>
<p>It's about what you do with where you go, not just where you go, or their numbers.</p>