<p>Hi. I'm a high school senior and I'm trying to decide what colleges I want to apply to. I want to take the pre-med track and eventually apply to a med school. If you could objectively comment on the rigor or how well each/any of these schools prepares you for med school. And if you could speak to the med school acceptance rate from each school that would be great! The list of schools is:
Loyola Universtity - Chicago
PLNU
Seattle Pacific
Cal Poly
U of San Francisco
Loyola Marymount
U of Washington
UC Davis
UC Santa Barbara
USC
George Washington U
Northeastern U
Boston University</p>
<p>Any or all of the schools you list are fine for pre-med.</p>
<p>(HINT: your college doesn’t prepare you to take the MCAT; you prepare yourself. The MCAT covers only lower level, introductory science, math and social science which you can learn at any college in the US. Or any community college, for that matter.)</p>
<p>Any acceptance rates published by specific colleges are entirely meaningless. Why? Because every college calculates its acceptance rates in a different way and colleges are not at all transparent about how they go about their calculations. </p>
<p>Acceptances to what kinds of programs? Just allopathic? Allopathic and osteopathic? Allopathic, osteopathic and naturopathic? Any graduate medical professional program (nursing, dental, pharmacy, podiatry, PA, OT, PT, SLP, AA, PsyD)? Only US medical schools? Or US medical school and foreign medical schools (in the Caribbean, Europe, Asia, Australia)? Does it only count graduating senior applicants or does it count graduating seniors and all alumni applicants for up to 5 years after graduation? Does the school manipulate/manage the number of students it allows to apply to medical school by only offering letters of recommendation to those students the school is sure have an excellent chance for acceptance? Does the school restrict enrollment in key required pre-med classes?</p>
<p>And yes, colleges (even some very well known and high ranked colleges) manipulate their med school acceptance numbers in some or all of those ways.</p>
<p>And lastly, no college ever counts in any way in its published acceptance rate the approximately 70% of freshman pre-meds who drop out the pre-med track before senior year applications roll around.</p>
<p>tl;dr-- You should chose ignore the hype and propaganda surround pre-med programs. Choose a college that offers you the best combination of fit, affordability and opportunity. </p>