statistics

[sportsfreak]

does anyone know if there is some database that shows to which med schools a specific schools undergraduates have had the greatest success of admission?

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[NeuroChaos]

Not to which med school; but there is data on AAMC that shows how many students from each school were accepted.

 

[LizzyM]

Some schools are natural feeder schools to some medical schools, particularly due to geography, etc but I think that most private schools pride themselves in casting a wide net and taking students from many undergrad schools (some will even point out that their students came from x different schools). Public schools that are unfriendly to OOS applicants either in the admission process or in the tuition structure are likely to draw many students from the major in-state university but even then there are likely to be people who "went away" for college and now want to "come home" for medical school in their home state.

Your pre-med advisor may be able to tell you which med schools have taken students from your undergrad institution - even if they didn't end up matriculating there (a single student might get offers from >3 schools). Of course, what you are asking requires a denominator: e.g. how many students applied to x medical school and how many were admitted. Taking into account that most schools admit only a small fraction of their applicant pool (some as few as 5-10%), you might find the numbers depressing unless you also look at the number of school each student applies to and the proportion of applicants from that college who get in somewhere.

 

[sportsfreak]

so do pre-med advisers at a college get notified when their advisee gets into med school?

 

[Beta Cell]

Some schools are natural feeder schools to some medical schools, particularly due to geography, etc but I think that most private schools pride themselves in casting a wide net and taking students from many undergrad schools (some will even point out that their students came from x different schools). Public schools that are unfriendly to OOS applicants either in the admission process or in the tuition structure are likely to draw many students from the major in-state university but even then there are likely to be people who "went away" for college and now want to "come home" for medical school in their home state.

Your pre-med advisor may be able to tell you which med schools have taken students from your undergrad institution - even if they didn't end up matriculating there (a single student might get offers from >3 schools). Of course, what you are asking requires a denominator: e.g. how many students applied to x medical school and how many were admitted. Taking into account that most schools admit only a small fraction of their applicant pool (some as few as 5-10%), you might find the numbers depressing unless you also look at the number of school each student applies to and the proportion of applicants from that college who get in somewhere.

LizzyM, I just wanted to comment on your signature. I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you on it. If you're about to begin research at a summer program while applying, I would think it would be to your benefit to at least mention it.

 

[nick_carraway]

LizzyM, I just wanted to comment on your signature. I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you on it. If you're about to begin research at a summer program while applying, I would think it would be to your benefit to at least mention it.

What if it doesn't actually happen? The EC section is for things that you have done--not what you will have done. Notice that you can't even choose a start date in the future.

You wouldn't put future events on a resume, why would you add it on a med school app?

Even if you started it the same month in which you apply, how valuable do you think it'll be when your experience is only a few weeks old by the time you apply? Just save it for the secondary.

 

[GoSpursGo]

LizzyM, I just wanted to comment on your signature. I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you on it. If you're about to begin research at a summer program while applying, I would think it would be to your benefit to at least mention it.

This is what update letters are for, or at most a passing mention in a personal statement. If it was really going to be so important that your application was going to be made or broken on the basis of it happening, then you should've gotten it done earlier.