@EDHDAD Again, 50% is not a “horrible rate”. It’s actually a pretty normal rate compared to most schools. Clemson has about a 44% med school admit rate. Basically, if you have a slightly worse GPA from a better university, you’re more likely to get into a med school than you are if you have a slightly worse universities. Med school admissions aren’t stupid. They know that it’s harder to do well in better universities. It’s just like applying to college. Colleges would rather take a B student who took AP classes, over an A student who didn’t.
@wannagotovandy Harvard publishes only the success rate of the students applying that meet certain GPA and MCAT scores. That’s the 93% stat you are seeing for them. It’s not uncommon for colleges to do that, but it’s misleading. Harvard is of course an awesome school so I’m not bagging on them, just saying that’s a poor example. My whole thing with Vandy is that it is a great school, but the ROI has to be weighed. We are a upper-middleclass with three three kids to send to college so we have to be smart with our money. Vanderbilt at full tuition has a poor ROI from a monetary payback standpoint. It costs a lot more and average salaries are comparable to schools where we have offers to go far cheaper. If you want to argue it’s worth it intrinsically, then OK. If you are in a position to pursue Vanderbilt “at any cost”, then you are either very rich or very poor.
Hi. I applied RD in November 2017. I know the deadline is passed for ED2, but since I have had my app in since before the deadline, do you guys think I can switch this to ED2 now? I am dumb and just realized that this is my top school and I really want to go there.
@an1999
I would contact the admissions office as soon as you can. They’ve likely been evaluating apps for a few weeks already but will probably be doing so for an additional week or two. They want as many people to apply ED as possible to maximize their yield, so I think they definitely have an incentive to let you switch.
@an1999 Try to call them, they’re better at answering. I also had to change something minor on my application, and he never answered either of my emails, but he did answer and was friendly over the phone.
@EDHDAD Yes, I was aware that is the statistic. But at say, Vanderbilt, I think it was in 2014, almost half who applied to med school had a GPA > 3.5 and an MCAT > 30 (which is remarkable in itself), and 90% of those students were accepted.
@wannagotovandy Yes, Vanderbilt is awesome. No argument there. Pretty much every competitive school can brag that the majority of their students that graduate with the stats you posted above get into med school. That does not make Vanderbilt special in that regard.
