<p>10 characters!</p>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>Can that question really be answered simply?</p>
<p>there are many ways of calculating this, but by most measures, brown ranks in top five undergrad institutions for acceptance to medical school in any given year
<a href="http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Admission/gettoknowus/factsandfigures.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Admission/gettoknowus/factsandfigures.html</a></p>
<p>High enough that you wont do better elsewhere?</p>
<p>In 2004-5 there were 237 applicants, 219 were accepted, 18 denied therefore, 92%. BUT only 31% of applicants went directly from Brown to Med-school, 33% took one year off 22% took 2 years off and 14% took more than three years off. Of those accepted, the avg GPA's were sci 3.61, overall 3.69. Of those rejected Sci 3.00, overall 3.20. I got this information from the health careers office. The sheet has a bit more information, like what schools students go to and their majors and MCAT scores.</p>
<p>Thats interesting....any way you could post the sheet or email it to me?</p>
<p>Tomorrow (10)</p>
<p>Interesting. Those GPA's are higher than the national results (2005 mean science GPA of matriculating med students=3.56, total gpa= 3.63), and higher than a number of other elite colleges, perhaps reflecting that a Brown transcript cannot show a D or F.</p>
<p>Also interesting that there is such a wide gap between accepted and rejected averages.</p>
<p>Neal, do you know whether those figures include the "applications" from the PLME's?</p>
<p>Even if it does, subtracting 90 from each number (I have no idea how many PLMEs there are but I doubt it's more than that per year) the rate is still 88%, which is very high</p>
<p>might change the gpa's</p>
<p>Neal, is there anyway that you could e-mail that to me as well?</p>
<p>The first page is the raw statistics
<a href="http://www.geocities.com/nealc1987/stats005.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.geocities.com/nealc1987/stats005.pdf</a>
The second page has the different majors students took
<a href="http://www.geocities.com/nealc1987/stats006.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.geocities.com/nealc1987/stats006.pdf</a>
the third page has the schools people went to in the last 2 years and the number of students going there
<a href="http://www.geocities.com/nealc1987/stats007.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.geocities.com/nealc1987/stats007.pdf</a></p>
<p>I don't know if geocities is working but you could PM me and I'll email it.</p>
<p>It's working. Thanks! =)</p>
<p>Compared to Princeton, Brown accepted students have identical (astronomical) admission rate, slightly higher gpa's, and lower MCAT's. Both Princeton and Brown show higher MCAT's than the national averages for accepted students, probably because the premed population at both colleges is drawn from a sample of top students.</p>
<p>At Princeton the overall gpa of students and of accepted medical students are about equal. In other words, the average Princeton student has a gpa good enough to get into med school. At Brown the overal gpa for accepted med school applicants is well above the overall gpa for all students. In neither case does the overall average account for the fact that premeds have to take premed courses, which are usually tougher than the average college course. However, the grade distribution in science courses is the same as for the other courses. So the course may be more difficult, but the grades end up at the same level.</p>
<p>The Brown students who are not accepted have very low numbers.</p>
<p>As always, difficult to interpret Brown gpa's since students can, and apparently do, take S/NC for the nonpremed courses they expect to be most challenging. </p>
<p>This list does not include the PLME's (not enough matriculating at Brown medical school for PLME's to be on the list), so many of Brown's most outstanding students are not included.</p>