WashU and Tufts syndrome for med school?

[MahlerROCKS]

For those of you who don’t know, several schools, particularly Duke, WashU, Penn and Tufts are known to reject strong applicants who apply to several peer institutions. For example, WashU is known to reject strong undergraduate applicants that apply to schools such as Stanford or Emory (WashU just got burned!!!!!!!!!!), because they know any student who gets into WashU and Stanford would most likely chose Stanford, thus decreasing WashU’s yield. Anyhow, concerning this hyper-selectivity that these institutions use in order to increase their yield, does anyone know if any med schools do anything remotely similar? The only thing I've heard is that Chicago and Northwestern prefer applicants who don't apply to the other, although I'm sure this is probably false

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[silas2642]

For those of you who don’t know, several schools, particularly Duke, WashU, Penn and Tufts are known to reject strong applicants who apply to several peer institutions. For example, WashU is known to reject strong undergraduate applicants that apply to schools such as Stanford or Emory (WashU just got burned!!!!!!!!!!), because they know any student who gets into WashU and Stanford would most likely chose Stanford, thus decreasing WashU’s yield. Anyhow, concerning this hyper-selectivity that these institutions use in order to increase their yield, does anyone know if any med schools do anything remotely similar? The only thing I've heard is that Chicago and Northwestern prefer applicants who don't apply to the other, although I'm sure this is probably false

Is it possible that these schools reject applicants who apply to several peer institutions because they don't think that the person will be a good fit for their school, that maybe it isn't about numbers only? You say these schools reject applicants with stellar stats, but they also accept a lot of applicants with stellar stats, which kind of blows your theory out of the water.

 

[MahlerROCKS]

Is it possible that these schools reject applicants who apply to several peer institutions because they don't think that the person will be a good fit for their school, that maybe it isn't about numbers only? You say these schools reject applicants with stellar stats, but they also accept a lot of applicants with stellar stats, which kind of blows your theory out of the water.

Its not a thoery, its common knowledge: all of the above schools are known for catering to the US News ranking system

 

[silas2642]

Its not a thoery, its common knowledge: all of the above schools are known for catering to the US News ranking system

But don't MOST schools in the nation do this-- favor applicants who are likely to go to their school? Isn't that why residence and stuff are important in an application? Aren't most schools a crapshoot to apply to anyway?

 

[DrBowtie]

I don't think this holds true since WashU has the highest averages.

 

[MahlerROCKS]

I don't think this holds true since WashU has the highest averages.

What I meant was whether or not any medical schools do what WashU does for UNDERGRAD

 

[DrBowtie]

What I meant was whether or not any medical schools do what WashU does for UNDERGRAD

Gotcha.

 

[MahlerROCKS]

But don't MOST schools in the nation do this-- favor applicants who are likely to go to their school? Isn't that why residence and stuff are important in an application? Aren't most schools a crapshoot to apply to anyway?

Not really, if you have a 32 on you ACT and your in the top 10 of oyur high school class and you apply to Brown, Dartmouth, Chicago and U Virginia, you have a good chance at any of the schools. However, if you also apply to Tufts, they most likely will reject you because you its clear that its you safety school. However if you apply to several middle tier universities and Tufts, its apparent that its your top choice, and they'll be more likely to accept you. They discuss the hell out of this topic for undergrad here, http://www.xoxohth.com

 

[dilated]

Considering they can't see what other schools you apply to, that's clearly out.

 

[cryogen9]

I agree. I'll probably get into 5 or 6 top 20 schools but ironically I've gotten a deferral from my non rated safety schools.