<p>talking about MIT applicants getting into UCSF, HMS, etc… is like the Oxyclean commercial. The product always works on set, never works at home. I rather know about the absolute statistics like after weeding out (%?) of pre-med students, how many finally made the cut.<br>
Those 10, they would have gotten into elite med schools had they gone to Azkaban or wherever.<br>
MIT is MIT, not a miracle worker. How is that impressive?</p>
<p>Surely students from any school with mcat scores of 29 or gpa = 3.2 would easily have gotten into HMS just like from MIT.</p>
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About 100 MIT students come in each year self-identifying as premed, and about 75 apply to med school. </p>
<p>In my experience, it’s mostly not weeding out, but self-selection – a number of people decide that they’d rather not be doctors rather than being forced to switch because of a low GPA. (Actually, I know at least one case of a person being weeded into premed, so to speak – she started out in mechanical engineering and decided it was too hard, so she became premed and is now a medical student. Premed is definitely not the most difficult path at MIT.)</p>
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<p>No… I quit premed because of this. If you think going from arguably the best undergraduate school in the nation (yes, MIT was my first choice, I think it’s better than Harvard) to a Tufts med school and have 92% of your peers rejected is “impressive” than you should go to MIT and do premed lol. Dude, even my Tufts premed friend said he wouldn’t even consider his own medical school. “It’s not good enough for him.” is what he said…</p>
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<p>Harvard didn’t take anyone from MIT with MCAT scores of 29.
The guy with a 3.2 GPA probably has 32 on his MCAT.<br>
But with this kind of profile and getting accepted across the board, we should call him Cap’n Hook. With that much going on, he could have gone to Colby and get accepted at Harvard Med.<br>
Frankly speaking, the MCAT total scores for these acceptees are borderline pathetic. 29? 32? How did they get into MIT in the first place? They apparently survived the weed out process and still scored 29-32?</p>
<p>Excuse me - wrong line - 31 was the MCAT score which is also such a great score!</p>
<p>Medical school admissions is a (very) competitive process no matter where you go to college. It would be ludicrous to claim that going to a top college guarantees acceptance to a top medical school. In a process as competitive as the med school admissions process, every possible edge helps, and MIT’s name and reputation is definitely an ‘edge’.</p>