Do Medschool tend to accept their own undergrads?

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Do med schools usually give priorities to their own undergrads?

 

[mudphudwannabe]

Do med schools usually give priorities to their own undergrads?

I'm not sure -- that's probably not true across the board, but they do say that schools hate to lose bright students...so if you're a competitive applicant, you maybe even more competitive at your home school. I don't know any stats though.

 

[dr.z]

I think some schools do take more of their undergrads. I'm sure at most schools a good percentage of the matriculants completed undergrad at the same institution.

 

[bluejellybelly]

i think that holds true for the major competitive ivy leagues when you look at MD applicants' site.

(columbia, hopkins and etc)

 

[PreMedAdAG]

No, they never do that..... 😉

 

[lightnk102]

i've heard that penn isn't too kind to its own undergrads. in the name of "diversity". or at least, that's the rumor among the penn premeds.

 

[dave613]

AECOM is definitetely biased toward its own undergrads 🙂

 

[CarleneM]

i think its tough to say for sure. i only know about harvard and yes their first year class has tons of former harvard undergrads in it (the number i was quoted was 35) but keep in mind that the vast majority of premeds coming from harvard apply to harvard med so competition for those spots may be stiffer. i'm sure its that way for other schools like johns hopkins, etc. I wish i knew a definitive answer and it may be quite different depending on what school we are talking about.

 

[paco]

I met quite a few Penn undergrads attending Penn Med during the interview. Not sure if that was purely luck, but I remember that there were definitely at least 15-20 first years. Quite likely more. But then again probably every Penn premed applies, so the question is whether the acceptance rate is substantially higher than for other similar caliber schools...

 

[WatchingWaiting]

At most top med schools, you will find that the highest number of med students come from that med school's undergrad program.

 

[stoic]

if you were on an adcom, and you had two "equal" applicants - one who went to your school for undergrad and one who didn't.... who would you choose?

 

[Jason110]

WashU, for example, says that their undergrads have "a statistically better" chance of getting accepted. That could be due to a variety of factors (recs from faculty on the admissions committee, for example).

 

[10minutes]

From the statistics, it seems that med schools with fine undergrad programs are willing to give some preference to their students in admission decision. I suspect that it may have to do with recommendation letters and the students' committment to the school.