Emory’s link to more premed stats isn’t working, but the website does indicate :
For the 2013 app year (latest available), 403 students applied to med school ad 217 received at least one US MD acceptance…a 54% acceptance rate.
139 M1 seats…67 different undergrads…24 avg age at matriculation.
Why do you think those other 46% rec’d no acceptances? These are top students, after all…they got into Emory. They took a rigorous high school curriculum , they were well ranked at their high school…probably most/all were top 10%.
Where are you seeing that Emory SOM gives a preference to Emory applicants? While there may be a slight one (and at many private SOMs there isn’t a preference), Emory states that there are no reserved seats for their undergrad applicants…therefore there isn’t some sort of …10% will be from Emory.
@emory323 Maybe you’ve done very well in the premed prereqs so you’re not aware of what’s going on with others.
And weeding doesn’t just involve curving…it also involves difficult tests to weed out the weaker students.
Are you saying that everyone in your premed prereqs are getting B’s or better? AND…no one drops those classes?
BTW…don’t necessarily believe what you’re being told that students are “moving on” to something else just because of interest. While that may be true in some instances, I’m willing to bet that at least half change paths because of grades (either final grade or test grades/drop class). I know that some start as premeds, maybe due to family pressure or romantic thoughts and soon learn it’s not for them, but issues with grades in the sciences often a accompanies that decision.
Re: curves…I don’t think anyone here is saying that if everyone in the class gets nearly every question correct on every test in a prereq class, that some will get low grades. Often the tests/labs are designed to weed…maybe by including many questions that weren’t covered in lectures but can only be found in some obscure paragraph in the textbook or by having extremely picky lab rubrics and rules (like losing points if you open a water bottle while walking out of lab!..yes, there are such rules at some schools)
There’s a reason why virtually all schools, even tippy top schools, start out with 4 times as many frosh premeds as there will be by senior year…of which maybe 40-85% end up with at least one acceptance. So if a school starts out with 400 premeds, then about 100 will remain by senior year…and about 50-85 will get an acceptance.