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Actually I have one more semester of college then off to med school in the Fall 🙂
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Med school acceptance rate?!?
Started by bgil
Actually I have one more semester of college then off to med school in the Fall 🙂
Congratulations!
Did you decide m.d or d.o?
Each medical school has a very low acceptance rate because the number of seats is very small. The majority of medical schools have 100-200 seats for each incoming class, unlike colleges which have thousands. Some schools have even fewer than 100 seats (although they're likely to get slightly fewer applications) while I think a few might creep up to about 250. So, if you take a school that has, say, 150 seats, and they accept ~2x that number (just hypothetically) for a total of 300, then you can see that receiving even just a little more than 3,000 applications will drop their acceptance rate down into the single digits.
Also, there are a handful of schools hovering near the 3.7/33 range for median accepted stats that receive up to 12,000 or even near 15,000 applications (Drexel, Jefferson, Tufts, BU, NYMC, Albany, Georgetown, etc), because a) many applicants who have similar stats are "competitive" for those schools, b) higher-stat applicants will apply to these schools as safeties, and c) these schools are within reach for lower-stat applicants. But again, remember that these schools usually have around 150-200 seats, so the acceptance rate will be very small.
If you take any one medical school applicant at random, his/her chance of being accepted at any one particular school is really small because each school has a very low acceptance rate (with the exception of in-state schools in particular states). But, if you know what you are doing as a pre-med and craft a solid application with competitive stats and meaningful experiences, your chances of getting an acceptance SOMEWHERE are pretty good as long as your school list is reasonable and you're not incompetent in some way during your interviews.
Also, there are a handful of schools hovering near the 3.7/33 range for median accepted stats that receive up to 12,000 or even near 15,000 applications (Drexel, Jefferson, Tufts, BU, NYMC, Albany, Georgetown, etc), because a) many applicants who have similar stats are "competitive" for those schools, b) higher-stat applicants will apply to these schools as safeties, and c) these schools are within reach for lower-stat applicants. But again, remember that these schools usually have around 150-200 seats, so the acceptance rate will be very small.
If you take any one medical school applicant at random, his/her chance of being accepted at any one particular school is really small because each school has a very low acceptance rate (with the exception of in-state schools in particular states). But, if you know what you are doing as a pre-med and craft a solid application with competitive stats and meaningful experiences, your chances of getting an acceptance SOMEWHERE are pretty good as long as your school list is reasonable and you're not incompetent in some way during your interviews.
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Humblest apologies to all; the 'Dawg is correct. I have 518+ in my advice file for the Harvard class schools as well. I just forget.
This is more like a scenario my pal @Lawper is addicted to. Because the class would be filled, I would imagine that we would not interview any.
Interestingly, I've seen almost the exact same thing with faculty candidates when hiring new Faculty. For example, for an Anatomy position, we'll get CVs from microbiologists or geneticists. They must think "I could learn how to teach that!"
It's probably the same mindset in people with 3.0 GPAs who apply to WashU...they must be thinking "maybe not enough people applied".
It's probably the same mindset in people with 3.0 GPAs who apply to WashU...they must be thinking "maybe not enough people applied".
Yeah the only flaw in their thinking is that Wash U one of the biggest stats w words around lol
If there was ever going to be med school with a 4.0 acceptance average it would be wash u
I don't know how you read your spreadsheets without conditional formatting.
Oh I didn't realize you did a direct copy/paste. I assumed you meant that the one you linked was the one you personally refer to. At least the pdf has alternatingly-colored rows.
Edit: Typo
