<p>Hi! I am currently a High School junior who is intrested in becoming a doctor. I have been doing a lot of research on potential colleges that I want to go to however I can never find any information on Medical school acceptance rates. This is an important factor in my selection process and I would greatly appreciate any information or links that you guys might have. Thanks!</p>
<p>it's a BS statistic, easily manipulated and for the most part worthless because there are far too many variables that can go into it. DO NOT USE THIS AS A METRIC FOR ASSESSING COLLEGES.</p>
<p>Look for the many threads on this message board that deal with this and what constitutes a good premed school. There are many.</p>
<p>i was wondering, let's say for johns hopkins, the acceptance rate for med schools is about 92%, do they count the ppl who drop out of pre-med?</p>
<p>Nope, and that's one of the reasons why it's a poor metric to use. To actually know that data would be a significant help and actually extremely useful. But since it's only a measure of those who actually apply it provides no such insight.</p>
<p>For example there are numerous (generally smaller but not always) schools who pre-screen their pre-med students before they apply and basically only allow those students who are extremely, extremely competitive for admission to apply. Such practices thus inflate their acceptance rate, but also means that other schools who don't screen are at a disadvantage because any student could apply, even with no chance at getting in, thus hurting that schools rate.</p>
<p>And don't think that doesn't happen. I have a good friend who knew that there was no way she was getting in, due to her 3.0 GPA, but applied anyways with the hope that she might get just an interview at our home state school. For her the interview would have satisfaction enough so she applied. Unfortunately she didn't get an interview, but she - and other cases like her - prove how the acceptance rate doesn't mean much.</p>
<p>Davidson College in North Carolina has a whopping 98% matriculation rate.</p>
<p>It is basically a Harvard without the fame. But it is getting up there as a "new ivy"</p>
<p>Oh and I heard from the admissions counselour, that the 2% opted out of attending med school.</p>
<p>" Davidson College in North Carolina has a whopping 98% matriculation rate"</p>
<p>a tad inflated(got to love those admissions counselors); the last ten year average acceptance rate for those students who went through the premed committee has been just above 90%. That includes students who got in on the second or third try etc(ie 90% of those that apply EVENTUALLY get in...) Interestingly, we are having a stellar year this year even with an unusually large applicant class, perhaps it is because the premed advisor is presently the president of the national organization of college premed advisors, who knows how these 'indefinable' little things impact decisions by medschool adcoms.</p>
<p>^hmm....anybody has any comments on that?</p>
<p>I'm recently hearing a lot about Davidson College too, in terms of their "guaranteed" medical program (as suggested by the stats). </p>
<p>Is that really manipulated, or that really is the fact?</p>
<p>I know for sure that Davidson is not a selective school at all to get in.</p>
<p>Again, even if Davidson is not screening (which I'm sure they're not), it doesn't mean applicants aren't self-screening (which everybody has some of.) Acceptance rates remain a poor metric to use.</p>
<p>since when is a 30% acceptance rate considered "not selective"?</p>
<p>"I know for sure that Davidson is not a selective school at all to get in"</p>
<pre><code> well, it's not Harvard, but it is quite selective and it is a top 10 LAC, part of its success in medical and law school admissions is due in large part to the quality of its undergraduates. All of my pre-med friends and classmates at Davidson got into medical school(6 for 6) and we are all having a great time at med school, so Davidson was right for us.
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<p>SAT Middle 50%: 1310-1480.</p>
<p>Cornell SAT Middle 50%:1290-1500
Source: College Tool Kit</p>
<p>Not selective whatsoever. So non-selective, in fact, that it's anti-selective.</p>
<p>Hm. What happens if you combine selectivity and anti-selectivity?</p>
<p>Someone's head explodes.</p>
<p>mdstudent.com or something like that
it has students applications that were accepted or not accepted to med school pretty interesting to look at...........</p>
<p>You're probably thinking of MDapplicants.com</a> - Home. Be warned that it is an extremely tiny sample, with numerous joke profiles and huge selection bias.</p>
<p>yeah i was sure of the joke profiles i mean some guy had like 24 MCAT and got into some actual MD School. </p>
<p>btw BDM what undergrad did you go to? just wondering because i have good grades and stuff but i cannot choose whether to go to like Univ of Mich , Wayne State, or Michigan State ( all michigan univ. ) </p>
<p>is it better to go to like an easy univ or somewhat challenging?
are private schools harder than public or vice versa?</p>
<p>Check out the pre-med forums at http:Student</a> Doctor Network Forums</p>
<p>SDN forums are useful -- well, ostensibly -- mostly in the late stages of the game, during the application process itself. Even then, I always found them more overwhelming than helpful.</p>