Undergraduate university acceptance rates

[vanillawafer]

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Do Medical Schools care about Undergraduate university acceptance rates? My school has a 90% acceptance rate and I'm considering transferring just because of that, hoping it doesn't **** when I apply. I don't want them to think I took an easy way out, but this school I am going to was financially the best option for me. If I went to a state school (as oppose to my private university, funny) I would have taken out bigger loans than the small ones I already have. I got a nice academic scholarship package for this school as well.

 

[WedgeDawg]

Private medical schools generally factor in selectivity of undergrad, but it's by no means an end all be all factor.

If you do very well, your undergrad school probably won't be the deciding factor.

There is a link in my sig that helps explain this and a number of threads in the past couple of months that have discussed this as well - searching for them might help clarify this issue a little.

No one will think you're taking the "easy way out"

Don't transfer just because of an acceptance rate.

 

[efle]

1) Adcoms aren't going to look up your alma mater's accept rate.

2) This is really not worth transferring/paying more over.

3) You will be able to put on your application that you are receiving a merit scholarship to your school. I think it was LizzyM I once read saying that this often answers adcoms surprise at seeing an outstanding student (eg super high MCAT) coming from outside of their state or famous private names.

P.S. What the hell is wrong with high schoolers and college students these days. I swear people's identities are starting to be derived from their college's US News rank or SAT scores or accept rate.

 

[WedgeDawg]

1) Adcoms aren't going to look up your alma mater's accept rate.

2) This is really not worth transferring/paying more over.

3) You will be able to put on your application that you are receiving a merit scholarship to your school. I think it was LizzyM I once read saying that this often answers adcoms surprise at seeing an outstanding student (eg super high MCAT) coming from outside of their state or famous private names.

OP, #3 here should really answer most of your concerns.

P.S. What the hell is wrong with high schoolers and college students these days. I swear people's identities are starting to be derived from their college's US News rank or SAT scores or accept rate.

It's the new a/s/l

1/2400/0.1%

 

[Lucca]

1) Adcoms aren't going to look up your alma mater's accept rate.

2) This is really not worth transferring/paying more over.

3) You will be able to put on your application that you are receiving a merit scholarship to your school. I think it was LizzyM I once read saying that this often answers adcoms surprise at seeing an outstanding student (eg super high MCAT) coming from outside of their state or famous private names.

P.S. What the hell is wrong with high schoolers and college students these days. I swear people's identities are starting to be derived from their college's US News rank or SAT scores or accept rate.

It gets worse every year. Engineered scarcity of educational resources for the sake of prestige mongering. Usually the parents are worse

 

[WingedOx]

P.S. What the hell is wrong with high schoolers and college students these days. I swear people's identities are starting to be derived from their college's US News rank or SAT scores or accept rate.

As someone who used to post on the old PricetonReview forums back when I was in HS (think the precursor to the College Confidential of today, but more of an unmoderated wild west), that is NOT a new phenomenon. If anything it still has a strong regional variation.

How much it's gotten worse is probably up for debate.

 

[WingedOx]

OP, #3 here should really answer most of your concerns.

plus, even then, acceptance rate isn't really a good metric for the school's quality or the quality of the quality of the student body, especially when you're making comparisons between schools.

The LAC with a class size smaller than your high school's in a crappy town in a cold state in the middle of nowhere where the nearest WalMart is more than 12 miles away is going to reach a somewhat more self-selective pool of applicants than say, Miami.