Number non-trads accepted by each school

[ThaDude]

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Much like EOE and the workplace, I'd like to think medical school admissions want to have certain number of men, women, minorities, etc. Would the same go as well for medical schools? Say School X has 150 spots open, and they like to have 10 (jutjust a random number) non-traditional applicants based off what they consider non-trad (maybe min 5 years removed from classes, worked in another career for x years and so on).

 

[gyngyn]

Much like EOE and the workplace, I'd like to think medical school admissions want to have certain number of men, women, minorities, etc. Would the same go as well for medical schools? Say School X has 150 spots open, and they like to have 10 (jutjust a random number) non-traditional applicants based off what they consider non-trad (maybe min 5 years removed from classes, worked in another career for x years and so on).

No, not specifically. We would like to have the class be representative of the population we serve but the pool is so skewed that it is not possible for UIM's. We do pretty well with males and females, though.
Non trads are neither a protected category nor "under-served."
We do like a diversity of experience though.

 

[ThaDude]

I agree to non-trads not being protected or underserved. I certainly did not mean to imply I thought such. thanks for the feedback.

 

[Goro]

Most DO schools by their nature are more open to non-trads.

So are a number of MD schools...Columbia, Yale and Dartmouth come to mind.

Much like EOE and the workplace, I'd like to think medical school admissions want to have certain number of men, women, minorities, etc. Would the same go as well for medical schools? Say School X has 150 spots open, and they like to have 10 (jutjust a random number) non-traditional applicants based off what they consider non-trad (maybe min 5 years removed from classes, worked in another career for x years and so on).

 

[ThaDude]

My girlfriend-wife one day soon-has a lot of family in New York with whom we could likely live with, so Columbia would be great.