<p>No, he did mean HIGH admission rate – i.e., the % of students from that particular college getting into med school. </p>
<p>Colleges like to brag about that statistic, so many of them limit which undergraduates can apply to med schools (for example, by requiring a certain minimum undergraduate GPA). Students that are not likely to get into med schools are therefore “washed out” and don’t adversely impact the med school admission statistic.</p>