<p>If it is at all possible, can someone make a list, or post a link, about which colleges have the most premed students currently? A pre med student, I think, is a student that has fulfilled or is planning to fulfill all the prerequisites that medical schools require, right? However, I don't know if colleges even publish this info, but a list of which ones have the most pre med students can help me a lot. To be clear, I am not asking "which colleges have the best pre-med programs" or something like that. From reading around, it seems that it is pretty much impossible to rank colleges based on pre med programs accurately because of a variety of reasons. However, can we assume that a college with more "pre med students" is a more popular undergrad college for med students? And if so, doesn't that mean they are doing something right? </p>
<p>On the other hand, what about a list of colleges that produce the most amount of students that get accepted into a medical school? I figure that this might be a more plausible/accurate telling of which schools truly are more successful in their teaching endeavors, but the problem is that the obvious ones will be at the top. Of course, HYPS and WashU and JHU will produce the most probably, but what about the ones below those? If you go further down from the top ten, it seems to get less clear about which schools really do have success in preparing their students for med school. Once again, i understand that asking for a ranking of best premed programs is based largely on opinion, but what about just a list of cold calculated numbers? I understand that this probably a poor way to find a school, and make no mistake, this will not be the only factor in my decision making process. But I was told to find schools that i liked over a variety of "eliteness" so to speak, and once you go below the obvious top tens, its harder for me to decipher which schools perhaps offer more of a challenge or prepare me better than other schools. I'm aiming for a top school, my grades are very competitive, an above average school, one that is harder to get in than the average school and has a more challenging/helpful med advisers than the average school, an "average" school where i have very high chances of getting in, but still have a good amount of pre med students, and perhaps a very easy school to get into if all else fails. </p>
<p>My thought process here is that schools with more students that go on to med school are likely to have more experience in advising aspiring med students, and obviously, have mroe success with their curriculum. I also understand that the type of med school that they go onto also matters, like a med student that gets accepted into Harvard med is probably carries more weight than a med student that goes to a 3rd tier med school. But at this point, i just want an idea of which schools i should be looking at, cause aside from schools like HYPS, I know nothing about any other colleges. </p>
<p>Any help would be really appreciated, and any input on my thinking process would help a lot too. If you have any questions, just ask. Thanks in advance.</p>