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Hey everyone, no ruckus this evening just some fun data, available in an excel sheet here.
I've always been curious about how big the proportion of premeds was at different universities. So, I went to AAMC's Table 2 and found all the universities which produced either 100+ white medical applicants or 50+ Asian medical applicants, got the total number of medical applicants produced by each, and then looked up each school's total enrollment. Using 1/4th total enrollment to approximate the graduating class size I found the percentage of the graduating class that was applying to med schools (I realize that due to gap years we have to assume the % taking a gap remains similar between years for this to work).
The results are in! Top 10 schools by % of grad class that are med applicants:
1. Johns Hopkins University 25.0%
2. Duke University 23.3%
3. Rice University 19.8%
4. Emory University 19.7%
5. Washington University in St. Louis 19.3%
6. Harvard University 19.2%
7. Yale University 17.1%
8. Vanderbilt University 16.6%
9. University of Notre Dame 16.2%
10. Stanford University 16.0%
Here's a chart of the schools with 10.0+ %
And here is the full list:
Let me know if you spot anything I screwed up. Sorry I didn't have the patience to do all schools listed for all races!
Edit: Updated to include the full 100+ white and 50+ Asian universities, not just 100+ white and 100+ Asian
I've always been curious about how big the proportion of premeds was at different universities. So, I went to AAMC's Table 2 and found all the universities which produced either 100+ white medical applicants or 50+ Asian medical applicants, got the total number of medical applicants produced by each, and then looked up each school's total enrollment. Using 1/4th total enrollment to approximate the graduating class size I found the percentage of the graduating class that was applying to med schools (I realize that due to gap years we have to assume the % taking a gap remains similar between years for this to work).
The results are in! Top 10 schools by % of grad class that are med applicants:
1. Johns Hopkins University 25.0%
2. Duke University 23.3%
3. Rice University 19.8%
4. Emory University 19.7%
5. Washington University in St. Louis 19.3%
6. Harvard University 19.2%
7. Yale University 17.1%
8. Vanderbilt University 16.6%
9. University of Notre Dame 16.2%
10. Stanford University 16.0%
Here's a chart of the schools with 10.0+ %
And here is the full list:
Let me know if you spot anything I screwed up. Sorry I didn't have the patience to do all schools listed for all races!
Edit: Updated to include the full 100+ white and 50+ Asian universities, not just 100+ white and 100+ Asian
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