How many people really link?

[reasonsformovin]

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Does anyone know how many students to these various postbac, premed programs actually link the following year? In particular, UPenn - any idea what percentage of students get linked and are in med school the very next year?

 

[henge]

I don't know about Penn, but Goucher's website says about 1/3 link and Bryn Mawr's says 20-30 (out of about 75) link.

 

[aSagacious]

Typically, 60-80% of graduates get in somewhere. I've had mixed success finding the information on a school-by-school basis (and I'm sure the numbers on the schools' websites might be inflated).

Anyway, as far as UPenn goes, it heavily depends on which program you're in. If you are specialized studies you can only link into two schools. If you are generic pre-health you can link into eight.

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/lps/postbac/pre-health/linkage

 

[betterlate]

Typically, 60-80% of graduates get in somewhere. I've had mixed success finding the information on a school-by-school basis (and I'm sure the numbers on the schools' websites might be inflated).

Anyway, as far as UPenn goes, it heavily depends on which program you're in. If you are specialized studies you can only link into two schools. If you are generic pre-health you can link into eight.

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/lps/postbac/pre-health/linkage

I don't know about any of the other formal postbac programs, but at Goucher typically 10 students apply via a linkage every year, which is ~1/3 of the class. The remaining 2/3rds decides to apply in the general application cycle.

Generally speaking, the entire class has stats that would make them great candidates in any admission cycle. The decision to link or not to link rests on many variables (geography, in-state vs. out-of-state costs of attendance, time, etc.), and each student varies in how they weigh those variables. For students with exceptional stats, it may make more sense to apply in the general cycle since they are more likely to receive merit money than they would if they applied via a link. Students also might be interested in schools that don't have a link to Goucher, want to bulk up their research experience during the glide year, or whatever.

 

[deleted248403]

So i'm a penn post-bac alumni and a few people link though most don't due to difficulty in doing so.

Most linkers are pre-health people and i know maybe half a dozen who did so succesfully. Tho, i do know one girl who needed to get a 10 on each section of the MCAT to link somewhere (Jeff I think, i forget off the top of my head), and didnt link cos she got a 9 on one and an 11 on the other. So it can be a bit of PIA.

If you are SSP, forget it - next to no-one links as the rules are pretty ridic and just generally crappy.