<p>I also heard of a person applied to 35 med schools and got accepted by 11.</p>
<p>Ah, the wonderful world of medical school admissions. Keep in mind 50 percent of med school applicants nationwide do not get in ANYWHERE. Usually, you are very fortunate to get into 1 med school and if you're lucky, you might have (gasp!) a choice. You will most likely apply to 20 or more med schools and get into a couple if you're good. The acceptance rates at top medical schools are around 2-5% (roughly 5 times tougher than Harvard or Stanford undergrad to get into).</p>
<p>For some applicant profiles and to get some realistic views, I suggest you visit mdapplicants.com.</p>
<p>Here are some profiles I pulled up: </p>
<p>Applicant #1: 3.66 GPA from Harvard undergrad, 35 MCAT (VERY GOOD score, roughly in the 90 percentile)
Applied to 14 med schools, got into 3</p>
<p>Applicant #2: 3.72 GPA from Harvard, 33 MCAT
Applied to 16 med schools, got into 2 (one of them was JHU so she can't complain:)</p>
<p>Applicant #3: 3.50 GPA from Yale, 33 MCAT
Applied to 19 med schools, got into 1</p>
<p>All of these applicants have very good MCAT scores that I would be happy with (mean MCAT score nationwide is 24).</p>
<p>There is no such thing as "saftety schools" Even people who get into Harvard or JHU med will end up getting rejected by most of the schools they apply to. It's tough but it's puts that 86% acceptance rate of Cornell 3.4 GPA applicants in perspective.</p>
<p>thank you for the enlightening case study, norcalguy... I guess for med school admissions, whatever helps. I didn't realize applying to med or other grad schools for that matter would be THIS different from undergraduate schools. It must be a whole other league of higher education admissions ballgame,, the major league.</p>
<p>Admission rate at top med schools like HMS, JHU, Wash U only little more than 2% chance of getting in... man oh man, i'm in for a big awakening. I suppose if schools like U of Arizona which probably have only the national average rate of 50% compared to Cornell's 78% or 89% for GPA of 3.4 +, Cornell has a much better chance, sort of a quasi-guarantee of getting accepted to at least 1 US med school as said by another CCer.</p>
<p>I also heard of U of Rochester etc. have some sort of med school GUARANTEED admission thing, that same CCer mentioned above said "guarantee admission is gold", but Cornell's percentages seem least very good.</p>