<p>Just wondering: what percentage of yale premeds go to top 10 med schools?</p>
<p>Don’t know any exact numbers…however my interviewer went to yale pre-med, then went to harvard for medical school</p>
<p>I’d suggest you look at the pre-med FAQ section in the medical school board area. I have no idea why percentage matters, nor even why “top 10” matters for most people who want to be doctors and not academics.</p>
<p>idk, but on a yale flier it stated that 94% of Yalies who apply to med schools get accepted to med schools. thats a pretty big stat because the national avg is only 48%.</p>
<p>I agree with Lergnom that the best place to find out about Med school admissions on CC is the Premed Topics subforum; several doctors, current Med school students and current Med school applicants post there frequently. There is much misinformation about Med school admissions, and the perceived value of % acceptance from UG colleges is one of them.</p>
<p>I doubt you’ll find statistics on how many Yale graduates go to the top 10 medical schools. I would be hard-pressed to even say what the top 10 medical schools are.</p>
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<p>Just use amount of NIH funding and job placement statistics.</p>
<p>US News & WR ranks Med schools, but they have two lists, Research and Primary care; some schools rank highly in both, others show strength in either research or primary care. Of course one has to recognize all of the usual caveats that apply to any ranking system.</p>
<p>Job placement statistics? What US medical school has less than 99% job placement? And the only jobs you care about are residencies. Maybe you want to look at who gets “top 10” residency programs, but that’s going to be even harder to determine than top 10 medical schools, and it’s going to differ somewhat based on intended specialty, something that won’t be captured in any data.</p>
<p>Unlike law school or business school, “top 10” means very little in the medical world, unless you want to go into academic medicine. And even there it doesn’t necessarily mean so much.</p>
<p>I got this from an admissions brochure</p>
<p>Each year, 85-90% of first-time applicants gain admissions to medical school; medical schools admitting the largest number of Yale graduates are Yale, Harvard, Columbia, NYU, UCSF, Johns Hopkins and University of Pennsylvania.</p>
<p>Im guessing that the 85-90% is lower than the 94% stated in a previous post, because the 85-90% only takes into account how many of the students got in to medical schools the very first time they applied.</p>
<p>Basically if you like Yale overall, you would definitely not be at a disadvantage( you would probably be at an advantage) going there to do your undergraduate degree before med school. I dont think however that they offer a degree in pre-med, just pre-med advising.</p>
<p>I think though that the high admit rate is representative of the quality of students that Yale admits and resources etc that they offer that may make a potential medical student applying from Yale look very attractive to medical school admissions board. </p>
<p>I guess getting into a top medical school is more for your satisfaction. I mean how many of us actually ask where our doctors went to school before we go?</p>
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<p>Premed is not a major or a degree, it is just the set of courses you need to take in order to apply to Med school. You can major in anything as a premed. All colleges have premed advising, some are better than others. Again, all of this and more is discussed at length on the Premed Topics subforum.</p>
<p>If you’re thinking pre-med, then you should spend some time understanding how it works. You need grades, MCAT and EC’s, ideally something related to community service and science / medicine. You can go anywhere but Yale students tend to get in more because they score higher, just as with the LSAT. Top medical schools is sort of strange because most people will practice medicine and your medical school is not strictly related to how you’re matched for your first professional step.</p>
<p>Yale students do very well with med school applications. We have a high degree of success at even the most competitive med schools (yale med school among them…)</p>
<p>I am sure Yale grads do very well when they apply to Medical School, but the acceptance rates that they quote are misleading because at big name schools you can not apply to Medical School unless you have the recommendation of the pre-med advisory committee and they will not recommend you if you do not have a strong application. So many pre-meds are advised to go into other careers if they do not have a strong application. Some will be advised to take an extra year to improve their application.
Many colleges ( esp. public universities) do not have such a gate keeper to prevent less qualified applicants from applying. So there admissions rate will be lower. So when you compare admission rates for Medical Schools you should be aware of this difference.</p>
<p>Um, like half of all Yale students are pre-med. Aren’t they?</p>
<p>um, nooooo</p>
<p>LOL: it seemed that half of the freshman class was pre-med! I’m just kidding but I recall Chem 115 being filled with nervous wanna-be doctors. There was a dark joke about Chem 115 generating more Psych majors than any other single class at Yale (i.e. people no longer on the med school track).</p>
<p>actually, psych is a reasonably good undergrad degree for pre-med. They still have to take OChem and the rest of the torturous pre-med reqs, but many don’t choose to major in Chem, Bio or other straight science…</p>
<p>Is Yale good for Pre-Med?</p>
<p>Come on. Seriously. It’s Yale…you can’t really go wrong.</p>