Basically title.
I got accepted into WashU during the Early Decision round. I’m thinking about doing premed and was just wondering about where WashU undergrads go to medical school later on.
If there are any former WashU undergrads or parents of WashU undergrads who are in med school right now, please reply.
Thank you!
I just have to ask you…why are you asking this question? IF you apply to medical school, your application will be reviewed on its merits (MCAT and GPA), not where other Wash U students attended medical school.
Since you’re 100% going there (as you applied ED), why not ask the school to answer for you. Obviously some will go to the home school.
You can also look at the AAMC data to see how many WashU grad apply to medical school.
Over on SDN, you can look up posts by efle who is a WashU grad who went MD/PhD. His most recent thread about programs who are the top producers of MD applicants (including WashU) is here
WashU’s pre-health advising office posts the acceptance and matriculation data about its grads here:
https://prehealth.wustl.edu/matriculation-acceptance-rates
BTW, the MSAR lists–at least used to list-- the percentage the med school matriculants who attended the school for undergrad.
The MSAR has a $30 annual subscription fee to access its data
In short, literally every medical school! I’m a 2014 alum and off the top of my head I can think of WU grads who went to WashU, Stanford, Ohio State, NYU, UChicago, Loyola Chicago, Harvard, UMiami, Baylor, UPenn, Thomas Jefferson SOM, Columbia, UTMC Houston, University of Puerto Rico, Yale, Georgetown, UFlorida, Ross U SOM, Texas A&M…
Two caveats:
Most medical professionals will tell you it doesn’t really matter where you go to med school, since the foundational curriculum is pretty standard and the Step 1 and Step 2 exams are the same everywhere. For that reason, many choose the med school with the best financial aid, often their in-state public U. Med school tuition at private/OOS schools can hit $65,000 per year (equal to a resident’s annual salary), before $20k or so for room/board/living. Many debt-sensitive pre-meds also try to keep their undergrad costs down as much as possible, in case they don’t end up getting offered a sweet deal for med school and have to pay sticker price.
Of course, definitely pick an undergrad where you’ll be happy & successful, it’s just ideal if it also doesn’t put you on track to graduate med school with half a million dollars in college+med debt. Remember, residency falls when many young physicians are also moving toward important (& pricey) milestones like a wedding, house, or kids, and they don’t really start earning big until their mid-30’s – if they pick a well-paying speciality. All I can say is, bless the docs who go through all that to take care of us!!
This list of schools is for the folks who had the ability, resources and determination to power through tough pre-med reqs and MCATs, do medical research, volunteer in clinics, and shadow physicians (check out the MedPrep courses!) WashU alums have higher med admit rates than those at many schools, but I still know people who had to retake pre-med classes, switched out of pre-med, applied to med school multiple cycles, or even got an MD from a well-known school and then decided not to practice.
Just a bit of perspective so you go in with eyes wide open – I’m sure you have what it takes to be a wonderful clinician, and I hope you find lots of fun and support along the way!
Just adding. I would say that many choose the med school to which they get accepted with the lowest net cost…and that often is their own instate public.
But “best financial aid”. Financial aid for medical school is most often loans, loans and more loans.
And medical school applicants are lucky to get one acceptance (many get none) so sometimes, there is not a choice to pick the lowest net cost option.