Universities with high percentage of undergrads attending med school

[Behnam91]

<p>Which universities have a high percentage of their premed undergrads being accepted into med school? In other words, which universities best prepare their premed students for medical school?</p>

[barrons]

<p>Getting into med school is much more a function of how smart and determined the student was before even starting college. There are no such statistics.</p>

[Sheed30]

<p>liberal arts schools</p>

[Behnam91]

<p>Sheed, there are hundreds of liberal arts schools. Please be a bit more specific. barrons, are you saying that there are absolutely no statistics which show the acceptance rate of, for example, Notre Dame’s undergrads who apply to med school?</p>

[NewEngSocSciMan]

<p>As Sheed30 said, selective liberal arts colleges do just as well or better than major universities, in many cases. <a href=“http://wsjclassroom.com/pdfs/wsj_college_092503.pdf[/url]”>WSJ in Higher Education | Trusted News & Real-World Insights;

[xplosnsnthesky]

<p>I don’t know about -out of the # of med school applicants-, but out of the total graduating class, Cornell has about 12% of their undergrads going to med school and Johns Hopkins 11%. A lot of schools don’t release this kind of info though, so you’ll have to do a bit of digging.</p>

[indiejimmie]

<p>Last year, 84% of Notre Dame pre-med undergrads were accepted to med school.</p>

[CDN_dancer]

<p><a href=“Med School Placement Rates - Pre-Med Topics - College Confidential Forums”>Med School Placement Rates - Pre-Med Topics - College Confidential Forums;

@sakky

Placement rates don’t tell the whole story. Any institution can boast of a 100% placement rate by allowing only the strongest candidates to apply.

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[noobcake]

<p>^^^^^
Beware, some school weed out students or selective filter medical school applicants.</p>

[NewEngSocSciMan]

<p>Even if you get weeded out or don’t realize your interest OR take your premed courses, you can still get to a medical career: A post bac year (degree or no degree) is a terrific option</p>

[beanieboo]

<p>i know BC has a rediculously high percentage of people who apply to medschool and get in. im not sure of the exact number but i know someones listed it a couple of times in other BC threads</p>

[Bigredmed]

<p>Students should not use “acceptance rate” data to determine their college selection. It ignores many of the issues that exist in finding the appropriate college and the statistic itself is easily manipulated. Even if there were a school which was definitively “the best” a student who is a poor match for that institution will not benefit. </p>

<p>Other issues - this is not my personal post but a prior post from Norcalguy discussing the major issues with “acceptance rates” and probably one of the best posts on this website ever about the topic.</p>

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Originally posted by norcalguy
The problems with these stats:</p>

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<li><p>They generally follow selectivity. Would it surprise you if Harvard applicants get into med school at a 95% clip while state school applicants only get into med school at a 50% rate? Harvard students are generally brighter and more driven to begin with.</p></li>
<li><p>What schools define as “med school.” Some schools only count allopathic schools. Some schools count everything (US allopathic, US osteopathic, Carib, Poland, Madagascar, etc.). The most competitive schools are the US MD schools so you can see how counting every kind of “med school” would inflate your %'s.</p></li>
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<p>3) What schools define as “getting in.” Some schools only count first time applicants. Some schools track their applicants over a period of years and as long as they get in, it’s called a “success.” For example, if Johnnie applies to med school 5 times and finally gets in, some schools will go back and retroactively change their data from 5 years before. Therefore, X percentage of their applicants EVENTUALLY get in (rather than X percentage of their applicants get in on their first time).</p>

<p>4) Screening: Some schools flat out refuse to write you a committee letter if you are underqualified. Hence, their acceptance rates are artificially inflated.</p>

<p>5) # of senior vs. # of alumni applicants. Some schools actively discourage their weaker applicants from applying as college seniors (even without a screening policy). For example, Swarthmore has a 100% acceptance rate to med school…from a whopping 6 senior applicants. A 6:40 senior:alumni ratio is definitely abnormal. Overall, it’s not a bad idea for colleges to encourage weaker applicants to improve their applications before applying. However, you can see how that would inflate your med school acceptance rates.</p>

<p>6) Which applicants are included in the applicant data. Some schools include all applicants (seniors and alumni). Some schools include only seniors. Some schools include only non-URM’s. Generally, whether you include URM’s in your data or not, it probably won’t affect your acceptance rate too much since URM’s generally get into med school at the same rate as non-URM’s. However, it is worth scrutinizing if you see a school claim that its students are accepted into med school with a lower GPA. Including URM’s in that data would definitely help bolster such claims.</p>

<p>You can see there are a lot of variables to consider. Hence, it is difficult to compare data from any two schools. But, if you want to find acceptance rates and acceptance data, you can generally find it on the Career Services web pages of colleges. There’s no single website out there that has tabulated the various med school acceptance rates. Such data is simply not publically available.

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