Is anybody aware of any kind of statistics that shows how many students from each US universities get into US medical schools? Any help or info will be greatly appreciated.
These type of statistics are hard to find and can also be misleading. And it sounds silly but it is absolutely imperative to understand what is in the numerator and denominator of any med school acceptance rate statistic. As some examples:
–Some colleges weed out pre-med students from the start so the final number of students who apply may be far less than the number of students who start out on a pre-med track.
–Some colleges only recommend students who seem pretty certain to be successful for med school admission and only those top students are included in the statistics. So another college which recommends all student for med school admission may have a lower acceptance rate but better overall results.
–Some colleges count acceptances into foreign med schools, DO programs etc. as med school acceptances and others do not.
-Many students take a year or so off before applying to med school so you would need to understand if or how students who apply to med school a year or two after graduation are included in the statistics.
yes, I understand it won’t be very accurate. I was just trying to get some ball park number. Thanks for your response though.
Try this link: https://www.aamc.org/download/321442/data/factstablea1.pdf
Or this: https://www.aamc.org/data/facts/
I think you have to get each med school convocation proceeding and in that they will list the individual undergraduate school for each graduating medical student.
Thank you @Gumbymom! Appreciate it. DD is ready for college. trying to decide between UT Austin, tOSU, UW-Seattle which one has higher success rate of getting students into medical school. Any insight?
There are no publicly posted data about medical school admission rates from individual schools–except perhaps on the school’s own health career advising website. And those data are unreliable because the way “medical school acceptances” are calculate are inconsistent from school to school.
What state do you/your daughter live in? That has far more influence on her ability to get accepted into medical school than what undergrad she attends.
Any one of those schools you mention will provide all the necessary opportunities for your daughter to prepare for med school; however actually getting accepted to medical school is wholly dependent upon her academic performance and her achievements during undergrad. And a school’s “success rate” is meaningless and irrelevant if your D doesn’t have the necessary traits, competencies and abilities needed for med school. The best school acceptance rate in the world won’t help her if she doesn’t have the grades and MCAT score necessary for consideration.
Advising at each of the undergrads you mention will be competent for in-state med school admission but may not be knowledgable if the applicants is applying to a broad range of OOS schools. A UWash or UO advisor will not know much–or anything–about the Texas application process, for example.
TX, OK and WA all have very strongly protected in-state admission policies at their med schools.
Texas has its own separate application system for medical/dental school. Texas medical schools are required by law to admit at least 90% (usually much higher) from instate.
UWash appears to favor its own undergrads but ONLY if they are residents of Washington or one of the WWAMI states. UWash’s OOR acceptance rate is under 1% (exceptions are mostly for UiM and MD/PhD applicants).
Oklahoma also has protected medical school admissions with >95% instate.
Applicants & Matriculants at all med school by in-state or OOS https://www.aamc.org/download/321442/data/factstablea1.pdf
Thanks @WayOutWestMom! The in-state policy insight is really helpful!
In-state = means applicant is resident of the state, not the student has attended undergrad in that state
Probably the best source of data about in-state vs OOS acceptance rates for various medical schools is US News Graduate Compass (subscription required).
got it! Thanks…
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Colleges do NOT get students into med school. Not at all.
What do you think “acceptance rates” tell you??
Are you instate for any? Which state do you live?