<p>What percentage of students are premed at Yale? I have been everywhere but couldn't find any figures. A premed can major in anything so the majors page on the Yale website doesn't show much.</p>
<p>Those figures donât exist.</p>
<p>Why do you ask?</p>
<p>Not directly answer your questionâŠ</p>
<p>I have the impression (likely learned from the AAMC site at one time) that each year, there are slightly over 200 applicants from Yale College. This number most likely includes alumni applicants.</p>
<p>Since at least one half of applicants from most top private colleges apply after one or more gap years (so that the applicants look more mature to med schools â the med school admission is not all about academic merits; characters, passion and maturity level and even charisma polished via years of life experiences, count for something also), the number of applicants who apply in the summer between junior and senior is likely 100 at most.</p>
<p>The other related question is the premed attrition rate. This number is harder to dig out. But this number is generally not very good everywhere â However, Yaleâs number is likely better than most other college due to the caliber of the students Yale admits.</p>
<p>Are you at Yale already or still a high school student?</p>
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<p>Does Yale restrict students to apply Med school if their GPA is not that great?
What is med school acceptance rate of Yale?</p>
<p>OP is a Yale admittee weighing options. </p>
<p>@wildwood: Yale doesnât restrict anyone from doing anything. They have advisors whose job is to get you to where you want to go. If you have a subpar GPA /MCAT for an American med school, theyâll tell you. And tell you where else you can apply.</p>
<p>Thanks T26E4!</p>
<p>@entomom: I heard a rumor that Yale is one of the best places for premeds among the ivy league and so I just wanted to confirm it myself because the more premeds there are the more focus the school gives to them.</p>
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<p>D1 took premed courses at Y, and she was happy with her experience. However, Iâm not sure I have ever thought about Y in those terms.</p>
<p>Understand, Iâm not saying that Y is bad for students interested in taking premed classes, just that I havenât seen/heard anything about it that necessarily stands out specifically for premed that makes it better than many other top schools. </p>
<p>Iâm also not sure they âfocusâ on premeds any more than a school like say P, which it looks like youâre also considering. </p>
<p>Perhaps Iâm just out of the loop since D1 was not a science major. T26E4, enlighten us please, youâve been through the process and have more experience than me.</p>
<p>With its grade deflation, I donât think Princeton is a good school for students considering post-graduate study.</p>
<p>I heard grade deflation at Princeton doesnât affect science majors as much?</p>
<p>I donât recall any special focus on âpre-medsâ per se. The majority of my MB&B classmates went on to medical school with substantial numbers going to graduate work or industry. One in my senior research seminar apparently did well in investment banking. The advising must have been pretty transparent since I have no recollection of meetings or required institutional paperwork that I needed to do to apply to medical school. Some schools may discourage medical school applicants who they feel will be less successful in the process and some formalized advising structure would be necessary to do that.</p>
<p>I donât believe that grade deflation at Princeton is an issue with going there for pre-med. The medical schools know these top feeder schools and are as aware of grade deflation/inflation as is the general public. There is a common mantra on CC that kids should not go to Ivyâs or equivalent for pre-med but rather should choose a full-ride merit scholarship at a lesser institution so that they easily outshine classmates and graduate with 3.9+ GPAs and no debt (or even out of pocket cost saving money for medical school). The college experience as a âpre-medâ can be so much more and it is a shame to think of those years as nothing more than a step to the goal.</p>
<p>Sunshine, as you navigated the Yale Web site, did you come across this page, associated with Yale Undergraduate Career Services?</p>
<p>[Health</a> Professions Resources | Yale Undergraduate Career Services](<a href=âhttp://ucs.yalecollege.yale.edu/content/health-professions-resources]Healthâ>http://ucs.yalecollege.yale.edu/content/health-professions-resources)</p>
<p>Perhaps you can contact one of the premed counselors in UCS and tell them that you are a prospective student. Not only would doing so answer many of the questions you may have now, but it may raise other points for you to consider. Speaking with them would also give you a taste of the advising that Yale provides. I donât know for sure that they will speak with you, but it canât hurt to try.</p>