Acceptance Rates by School

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http://www.doctorpremed.com/medical-school-acceptance-rates.html

not sure how old this data is but the numbers seem sooo low 🙁

 

[DoctorDeMan]

US news has this information also. Might be a more reliable and up-to-date source.

 

[87138]

Acceptance rates are virtually useless.

 

[Jameel11435]

Acceptance rates are virtually useless.

How come?

Sorry that I don't know this by now.

🙁

 

[phospho]

How come?

Sorry that I don't know this by now.

🙁

For example, take a look at north dakota... according to this website, it accepts 1 out of 5 students who apply. However, that is very misleading because they rarely take people who are not residents of north dakota, which means that out of state people aren't going to even bother applying. The only people who end up applying are not only in state, but are people who know that they have a decent chance of getting accepted. But if you or me were to apply there right now, we would pretty much have a 0% chance of getting in.

Another example: take a look at harvard. There are a lot of schools who are a lot less competitive that have a lower acceptance rate, why? because people (like me) who don't have such high numbers won't even bother applying there. Therefore, their numbers are skewed because they're mostly taking into consideration the people who had high enough grades to think that they had a decent chance of getting in.

hope this makes sense🙂

 

[Lukkie]

hope this makes sense🙂

Nope - Meharry really is more selective than Harvard!!!

 

[phospho]

Nope - Meharry really is more selective than Harvard!!!

haha, nice catch... i just noticed...

i'm sure the haaavud folks won't be too happy about this😀

 

[Rzarecta]

For example, take a look at north dakota... according to this website, it accepts 1 out of 5 students who apply. However, that is very misleading because they rarely take people who are not residents of north dakota, which means that out of state people aren't going to even bother applying. The only people who end up applying are not only in state, but are people who know that they have a decent chance of getting accepted. But if you or me were to apply there right now, we would pretty much have a 0% chance of getting in.

Agreed. Furthermore, UND is not on the AMCAS system even further reducing its applicant pool.

 

[saveourpens]

I don't know where they got their rates. US News for example (much more reputable) has Pittsburgh with a 7.9% acceptance rate, not a 2.72% like this site.

 

[anbuitachi]

Do you have to get premium to see acceptance rate? If not where did you see it on US NEWS?

 

[witness23]

acceptance rates are useless. it should be broken down into % interviewed, % of interviewed accepted immediately, % waitlisted, % of those waitlists accepted, IS/OOS apps, GPA/MCAT

there are schools where you have 0% chance at (ie Hawaii), and higher (say a North Dakota)

 

[saveourpens]

Do you have to get premium to see acceptance rate? If not where did you see it on US NEWS?

you do, but I just went to Barnes and Noble and flipped through the print version.

 

[Excelsius]

Why US news? MSAR is all you need. You can get data from there that is actually useful, such as % interviewed for residents, OOS, international, and the same data for % matriculated. That's as good as it gets. I might just be in the mood after the exams this week to make all the calculations and post them. I am thinking that I might also be able to break the data down further by GPA and MCAT.

 

[armybound]

For example, take a look at north dakota... according to this website, it accepts 1 out of 5 students who apply. However, that is very misleading because they rarely take people who are not residents of north dakota, which means that out of state people aren't going to even bother applying. The only people who end up applying are not only in state, but are people who know that they have a decent chance of getting accepted. But if you or me were to apply there right now, we would pretty much have a 0% chance of getting in.

Another example: take a look at harvard. There are a lot of schools who are a lot less competitive that have a lower acceptance rate, why? because people (like me) who don't have such high numbers won't even bother applying there. Therefore, their numbers are skewed because they're mostly taking into consideration the people who had high enough grades to think that they had a decent chance of getting in.

hope this makes sense🙂

you also have to consider things like class size. The Texas application system is cheap, so people end up applying to every school. some schools have much larger class sizes than others, so they will have a larger acceptance rate compared to a smaller school, since they will receive roughly the same number of applicants but have room to accept 2-3x as many students.