Number of Pre-meds

[Sheon]

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I just read a post where a person siad that at his/her school there were 500-600 premeds. Is this real? Are there schools out there with 100+ premeds each year?

 

[noah]

There may be 600 pre-meds in an entering freshman class, I'm sure there are significantly fewer who actually survive to apply to and be accepted into med school. I'm sure there are many schools where 100+ people a year are accepted into med schools - maybe UMich, Berkeley, UTexas, etc...

 

[buttercup]

50% of Stanford's entering classes list themselves as potential premeds- it narrows down to 10% by graduation.

 

[turtleboard]

Same situation exists at NYU. When I entered the College, about 500 students were premed, which was about half the entering class. By senior year, there were 165 applicants.


Tim of New York City.

 

[nerak74]

I am from UC Berkeley. The # of people who claim to be premeds does decrease significantly as we progress toward graduation. According to the statistics released by our career center, there were 309 accepted medical school applicants (not counting multiple acceptances) in 1998. Well, we are a big school.

 

[Sheon]

Wow, this is news to me.

Do you think the high end schools get a higher concentration of premeds than lower ranked schools?

 

[BAHoover]

the percentage of entering freshman of a class of 1200 at a highly renoun school can be as high as 75%. However, the number rapidly decreases up untill graduation.....4 years later

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[jk680]

to turtleboard-
did you go to CAS at NYU? If so, how does it do w/med school admissions?

 

[turtleboard]

jk680, yes, I did attend the NYU College of Arts & Science.

The impression I get is that NYU does fairly well with med school admissions. The number thrown around for quite some time was 80% of applicants are accepted to medical school, but I can't be sure of the number today. 80% might not be the highest number of the bunch, but the Premed Committee at NYU writes letters in support of a med school application from every student who's willing to apply. Many other schools will refuse to recommend students because of, for example, what's thought of as a low GPA or a low MCAT, so they may have a higher acceptance rate.

Orgo is notorious for making prelaw or Stern (business) students out of premeds, though, so I'd be careful.

Tim of New York City.

 

[jk680]

Thanks Turtleboard! I'll be taking orgo soon so thanks also for the warning. I know orgo is a bitch no matter what, but could you give me any pointers for NYU's orgo? For my pre-med classes, I plan on taking summer classes at a nearby community college before I take the classes at NYU so I will at least be familiar w/the material. Do you think this would help for the orgo class?

 

[Arsenic]

bump

 

[Hoberto]

For my pre-med classes, I plan on taking summer classes at a nearby community college before I take the classes at NYU so I will at least be familiar w/the material. Do you think this would help for the orgo class?

Do you mean you are planning to take Orgo at a CC and then retake it at NYU? If so, you will have to explain why you took the class twice come interview time. Also, you'll have to do really well in a difficult class both at the CC and NYU. If you want to prepare for Orgo you could read the book or sit in on some classes over the summer. I wouldn't recommend taking it twice, though.

EDIT: Can't believed I replied to this ancient thread.

 

[willthatsall]

Do you mean you are planning to take Orgo at a CC and then retake it at NYU? If so, you will have to explain why you took the class twice come interview time. Also, you'll have to do really well in a difficult class both at the CC and NYU. If you want to prepare for Orgo you could read the book or sit in on some classes over the summer. I wouldn't recommend taking it twice, though.

EDIT: Can't believed I replied to this ancient thread.

Hahaha, I didn't realize either until I saw that one of the people who posted was a guest. Guests haven't been able to post on SDN for quite a while. I think this is the oldest thread I've seen resurrected. I didn't even think the threads stayed on the server for this long.

 

[Arsenic]

Hahaha, I didn't realize either until I saw that one of the people who posted was a guest. Guests haven't been able to post on SDN for quite a while. I think this is the oldest thread I've seen resurrected. I didn't even think the threads stayed on the server for this long.

 

[willthatsall]

I commend you on being able to resurrect this thread. I sense the dark side is strong in you.

 

[bigdan]

I did my pre reqs at SUNY Binghamton. 440 of 460 students in my Chem I class were "premed". I applied to medical school two years later, and the prehealth advisory office sponsored something like 98 committee letters for folks...so reality and organic chemistry seem to do some weeding out over time...

dc

 

[quantum]

Do you mean you are planning to take Orgo at a CC and then retake it at NYU? If so, you will have to explain why you took the class twice come interview time. Also, you'll have to do really well in a difficult class both at the CC and NYU. If you want to prepare for Orgo you could read the book or sit in on some classes over the summer. I wouldn't recommend taking it twice, though.

How would your medical school know that you took Orgo at a CC if you don't tell them?

 

[Arsenic]

How would your medical school know that you took Orgo at a CC if you don't tell them?

You're required to list all courses taken at the college/university level to AMCAS and submit transcripts from those schools.

 

[Zephyrus]

There are about 100-120 graduating seniors who apply to medical school from Duke each year, with an 85-95% acceptance rate (Duke endorses every candidate, no bull**** pre-screening to jack up numbers). The number of entering freshman "pre-meds" is enormous. It's evolution, baby.

Z

 

[Turkeyman]

Hahaha, I didn't realize either until I saw that one of the people who posted was a guest. Guests haven't been able to post on SDN for quite a while. I think this is the oldest thread I've seen resurrected. I didn't even think the threads stayed on the server for this long.

Ohh, yeah I was always wondering how I would post as a guest in a first place, 'cause I'd heard of it. Surely we have a gem in this thread...5 years.

Arsenic rules 👍

 

[PTPoeny]

There are a lot of schools where it isn't ridiculous to think of there being 100+ premeds in a class, if you have 10,000 people entering freshman year. Maybe its just having grown up by one of these schools and going to another I don't think having 100+ premeds is particularly difficult.