<p>does anyone know the percentage? i’ve been looking for it everywhere!</p>
<p>i'm trying to decide which school out of these 3 is the best for med school: brown, cornell, or u penn. does anyone have an idea? thanks!!!</p>
<p>Brown's PLME program basically wants you to have cured a major tropical disease. As far as pre-med goes, they are all fine.</p>
<p>this stat won't really help you, i'm pretty sure all 3 probably have over 90% (maybe even over 95%) of those applying to med school getting in</p>
<p>i know cornell's is 76%, and 86% for those with a gpa of 3.4 or higher....</p>
<p>Brown is 92%, but I think that might count PLMEs who stayed with the program and went on to Brown med. Excluding them it's probably around 90%. To compare, Duke is around 85% and Princeton 92-93%</p>
<p>Someone posted the scanned summary from Brown on CC a few months ago. Hunt around and you may find it. Dcircle did not post it, but was in on the discussion.</p>
<p>I would say that among Cornell, Brown and UPenn, if you are talking about just getting into the very top medical schools, Brown has the edge for pre-med because you are competing against a much smaller pool of science majors. Brown is a very good feeder school to the top graduate programs:</p>
<p><a href="http://online.wsj.com/documents/wsj_college_092503.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://online.wsj.com/documents/wsj_college_092503.pdf</a> </p>
<p>If you are talking about getting into medical school in general, all are very good for that. Just do very well and you'll get in somewhere.</p>
<p>I keep on hearing different medical acceptance rates for the same schools, and it's getting really confusing. Eg., someone said princeton was 90% (which is extremely high) and an above poster said 92 to 93%.
At the Upenn info session, the admissions rep said that it was ~86%.
I also heard that cornell might be more difficult for pre-med, because it's more grade-deflated than the other ivies, but I'm not sure how reliable this is.</p>
<p>It would be nice if people gave a college acceptance rate into med school from an actual website.</p>
<p>They don't report numbers in a way that's truly representative or equal.</p>
<p>Any of these schools will be fine if you do well there and do well on your MCATs, as well any other top university. You're concentration should have more of an affect than the PreMed part since GPA and MCAT scores often matter far more than where you are amongst top schools with this kind of thing.</p>
<p>The "medical acceptance rates" are completely useless. They are not reported accurately by any stretch of the imagination, so my advice is don't even bother looking for them. Many schools advertise a 100% acceptance rate, by massaging the numbers and encouraging certain students not to apply. You should only be concerned if the rate is less than 75%. If it's higher, treat it as a 100% acceptance rate. You just have to do well on your exams.</p>
<p>Posterx--many schools do that, but Brown doesn't....they support anybody who wants to apply and there is none of that political ********. I remember when I was applying to college there were some schools where you had to get certain gpas or mcat scores to receive a committee recommendation, or the school would list "95% acceptance for qualified applicants" and qualified applicants would only be the ones from the top of the class or whatever. Not at brown--they take everybody applying to med school that year, including the non-trads or ones who took a year off or whatnot, and thats where the precentage comes from.</p>
<p>If you don't screw up at Brown, sticking with it and do the requirements etc., you will get into med school. </p>
<p>Brown is also recruited at many of the top med schools every year. I believe Harvard takes 5-6 students a year.</p>
<p>Yes, as I said above, Brown does very well at getting its premed students into the top medical schools. I'd say it's probably in the top ten or fifteen or so nationwide, along with MIT, Yale, Harvard, Caltech, Swarthmore, Williams, Dartmouth, Princeton, Stanford, Wellesley and Amherst, in terms of getting into the top 20 programs. I don't think any of these elites limit who gets to apply to medical school, but their "medical school acceptance rates" can still be misleading nonetheless, and the advisors will discourage you a bit if you, as you put it, "screw up." I wouldn't put any faith into those rates, though. </p>
<p>Penn and Cornell definitely aren't as successful, at least on a per capita basis.</p>
<p>If anybody has web space to post some pdf files (few megs) I'll can email some stuff with information on Brown premed statistics, including where students of 2005 matriculated...PM me your email or something and then post the web address here.</p>
<p>ok, so here are the stats they gave at my info session 8 days ago:</p>
<p>-4th highest Med School acceptance rate in the nation
83% into top 3 choice of med schools</p>
<p>PLME has a 5-7% acceptance rate</p>
<p>I would take those with a grain of salt - stats like "getting into your top 3 choices" can be very easily manipulated - but nevertheless, like I said above, I have very little doubt that Brown is one of the top 10 places to go if you want to get into a top medical school.</p>