# of applicants

[luckymed]

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Does any of you know where i can find out the number of applicants for this year? thanx

 

[SMW]

Approximately 38,000 - 6,000. Check out <a href="http://www.studentdoctor.net/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=006798" target="_blank">this thread</a> for details.

 

[imtiaz]

This is significantly less than last year, no?

 

[WSUreds]

That 38,000 number is wrong for 2001. It was 34,859 check the AAMC website to verify your results because they had a press release in November.

 

[Coalboy]

~35,000 people applied. However, due to problems with AMCAS, only approximately 19 people actually had their applications received by the schools. Those select few have it made in the shade; the rest of the pool just has to wait until next year when the Web application issues have been worked out.

 

[SMW]

Originally posted by WSUreds:
•That 38,000 number is wrong for 2001. It was 34,859 check the AAMC website to verify your results because they had a press release in November.•••

Don't know why we have two threads going for this topic. But just to clear up some confusion:

The press release of Nov. 2 said that 34,859 people applied
this year, 2001, for entrance in 2002 . The 38,000 number is approximately correct for last year's (year 2000's) applicants for entrance in 2001. The actual number was 37,092.

I was wrong about their being 6000 fewer applications this year. I was repeating a recently posted rumor. From the above figures you can see that approximately 2000 fewer people applied this year. Darn! 😡 A 16% drop sounded so much better than 6%! 🙁