<p>Hey!</p>
<p>What are the acceptance rates like for UCLA and University of Michigan into medical school?</p>
<p>I'm choosing between the two atm (it's proving very difficult :() and this is a factor...</p>
<p>Ive heard research etc. at UCLA is more extensive/better, but the med school acceptance rates are only 50%! Does this mean it's easier to get into med school from Michigan, or that it prepares you better?</p>
<p>Muchos gracias
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<p>The statistics you want do not seem to be available in a way that supports apples-to-apples comparisons of colleges. So they are not a good basis for your comparison-shopping.</p>
<p>There are many related discussions on CC and other forums. Occasionally you will see what appear to be straightforward claims for specific colleges, for example that Michigan has a 60%-70% medical school “placement” rate. Generally, posters don’t cite their sources. They don’t indicate the time span covered by the numbers (whether they cover only the most recent graduating class, or all alumni for the past N years). They do not indicate the average GPA or MCAT score for the cohort. The numbers are not calculated and reported in a uniform way (as admission statistics are, more or less, in the Common Data Set files). </p>
<p>What you really would need to know is the acceptance rate from each of these colleges for each medical school that might interest you, for every combination of GPA and MCAT score above a certain threshold. What you probably would find is that, for a given combination of GPA+score, there is no significant difference in the acceptance rates for applicants from these two schools (or most other peer colleges) to most med schools.</p>
<p>Then the question becomes, how easy is it to obtain a certain GPA at UCLA v. Michigan? That, too, is virtually impossible to answer. </p>
<p>Is there a significant cost difference between the two schools? If so, it would make sense to choose the one with lower net costs. Med school is extremely expensive (more so than college) with little or no available financial aid, other than loans. If costs are comparable, choose based on personal preferences (for climate, setting, or whatever matters to you). If you do not have any such preferences … then flip a coin. They are both good. </p>
<p>UCLA actually collects fairly detailed data on its pre-med students, which you can see here:</p>
<p><a href=“http://career.ucla.edu/Students/GradProfSchCounseling/MedicalSchoolStatisticsForUCLAGraduates.aspx”>http://career.ucla.edu/Students/GradProfSchCounseling/MedicalSchoolStatisticsForUCLAGraduates.aspx</a></p>
<p>There’s no indication that this data is exhaustive however. So there could be quite a few pre-med students who do well in applications yet don’t participate in this survey.</p>
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<p>I agree that this probably makes the most sense.</p>
<p>where are you instate?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t go to a UC as an OOS premed.</p>
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<p>I see that you’re an int’l…canadian citizen. the med school acceptance rate at either school wont mean anything to you since int/ls have such a low med school acceptance rate.</p>
<p>@beyphy, thanks - I was told that by a UCLA graduate so maybe that’s why? Just assumed the UROP wasn’t as good or as extensive etc. Thanks!</p>
<p>@mom2collegekids, It can’t hurt to try, right? :P</p>