Does Pitt have a pre-med committee which provide committee letter to med schools or undergrad students need to get recommendation letters from professors individually when they apply to medical schools?
@SkAdvice I have sent you an e-mail. Feel free to delete your comment on here if you don’t want your e-mail to be available to the public.
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Thank you so much @hailtopitt1787 .
I did not know how the forum works, when I didn’t see my message posted, I thought my browser was causing some problems. So, I pressed Post Comment many times , it flagged the admin’ attention.
I got a warning from the Admin.
I am very sorry about what I have caused.
@SkAdvice no need to apologize, there is nothing wrong with you did. I have actually encountered a similar problem on here. This forum can be a bit confusing sometimes. Anyway, I hope you choose to commit to Pitt!
@hailtopitt1787, Does Pitt have a pre-health committee which writes a committee letter to med schools or undergrad students need to get recommendation letters from professors individually when they apply to medical schools?
@V80287 I am not entirely sure. I recommend you reach out to the Interprofessional Center for Health Careers at 412-624-2656.
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@hailtopitt1787 Hello, I am interested in the pre medicine program and saw the acceptances you had posted in previous posts (Around 159 acceptances). Do you know what the average GPA and MCAT scores for these applicants were? Please let me know.
Please send us a private message with an e-mail address that I can send this information too! There are quite a few statistics regarding the GPA/MCAT scores.
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Hi @hailtopitt1787, could we have that information as well? (The statistics with GPA/MCAT scores) I don’t think I’m able to send you a private message. Thank you!
@panthermom18 I sent you a private message with email details. Please send me an email because it is a lot of data.
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Hello,
Our son received acceptance to Pitt. As his aspirations are in medicine as a career can you share with me the statistics you reference concerning Pitt’s placement to medical schools and a detailed list of the schools Pitt UGs matriculated. We think this would be helpful as he makes his decision in the next few months.
@PAdude please send me a private message with an email you would like this data sent to.
-Pitt Admissions Staffer
@hailtopitt1787 it seems because im new here I can not private message until I have a certain number of posts. I will put up here an email (non personal that I can access if you would be able to send to there that would be great) thank you
@PAdude I have just sent you an e-mail!
@hailtopitt1787
I sent a private message with my email - can you forward the med school data to me as well please?
Thank you!
@hailtopitt1787 - I am also looking for same inform. Since i am new member, i cannot private message you. Could you please share the same detail with me? thanks
@samhouston23 I need to have an e-mail to send this information to you. you’ll have to call the Interprofessional Center for Health Careers at 412 624-2656.
-Pitt Admissions Staffer
I can’t speak about Pitt specifically but I just want to make a general comment that people be careful with medical school acceptance rates quoted by admissions. It may sound obvious, but it is very important to understand exactly what goes into the numerator and denominator of the ratio as not all schools calculate med school acceptance rate in the same manner. For example:
–Some schools have more “weed out” classes than others reducing the number of students who continue on the pre-med path for four years (lowering the denominator).
–Certain colleges have committees which pre-screen and recommend med school applicants. These committees generally only recommend students who have the stats, experiences etc. to make them very strong candidates for med schools. Students who are not recommended are left out of the equation. In contrast, other colleges support all of the students who want to apply to med school. So while the schools with the pre-screening will have a higher acceptance rate (because of the lower denominator), a schools that support all students may be preferable.
–Some students take additional coursework such as a Masters degree (sometimes at other schools) before getting into med school. Be sure to understand how those students are counted.
–It is important to know what constitutes a med school acceptance for the med school acceptance rate. Some colleges just count US allopathic med school acceptances and other schools also include acceptances to DO, overseas med schools, podiatry etc. programs in the numerator leading to a higher med school acceptance rate. Pitt does seem to break out MD, DO, PhD and dentistry programs but I can’t tell if any of the acceptances were to international programs or were after students took additional coursework after Pitt etc.
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Hi, I am interested in Pitt but would like to know more about the pre med stats at Pitt.
Can you PM me the list of all the 150 medical schools to which Pitt undergrad students got into and total numbers for each school? I am not able that’s message you. Thanks.