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What percentage of matriculants came from Top 25?I went and pulled numbers from my "most premeds per capita" sheet, which is from last year's AAMC Fact Table.
No data for MIT, caltech, dartmouth, or carnegie mellon, but the other 21 of the top 25 schools contributed a total of ~7300 applicants.
Out of a total of ~49,500 applicants last year, that brings us to at least 15% of US MD applicants last year came from Top 25 undergrads.
Is there any way to get this data? Like do all MD admits get their alma maters listed somewhere central?What percentage of matriculants came from Top 25?
Is there any way to get this data? Like do all MD admits get their alma maters listed somewhere central?
Doesn't it seem logical that the successful applicants to the top 25 would have what it takes to rise to the top of the med school applicant pool?
Have what it takes? Yes. Have what it takes while attending a top school if the school curves heavily? Not as much.
My UG curved the median to 2.6-2.8 in many premed prereqs and required doing 2 standard deviations above the mean to guarantee a 4.0 or be in the 95th-100th percentile in the event that 2 standard deviations was unobtainable. Throw in a bunch of top-performing students into an exam and somebody still have to get the best and worst score. Plus 50% of those people are guaranteed to get scores which med schools would deem lethal.
Right, but that puts students from institutions like this in the "Low GPA High MCAT = must be a good test taker but not a hard worker" bin. Idk, maybe I'm just bitter at my UG. I mean it creates a really unbalanced app.What can I say, it sucks to be a student or alumnus of your UG if your plans include medical school.
On the other hand, compared with the pool of applicants from no-name LAC or no-name state collge, as a group, students from top 25s are likely to have a higher MCAT and a stronger aptitude for medical school.
Right, but that puts students from institutions like this in the "Low GPA High MCAT = must be a good test taker but not a hard worker" bin. Idk, maybe I'm just bitter at my UG. I mean it creates a really unbalanced app.
Your only salvation is if the school is very well known for this phenomenon. Princeton and Reed are two I know of and there may be others that are known to their feeders.
Your only salvation is if the school is very well known for this phenomenon. Princeton and Reed are two I know of and there may be others that are known to their feeders.
Must have been tired of losing accepted students to HYS because of their reputation for being holdouts on the rampant inflation!
There's actually a good bit of variety among the big premed feeders like Ivies, likely due to things like state residency of students there, attached med school (or lack), level of deflation/competition, different approaches from prehealth committees, etc. Some publicly available ones:
Rice - 89% !! (Dang it must be nice to be Texan)
Brown - 85% (range 80-91 in the last few years)
Princeton - 82-90%
Columbia - 82%
MIT - 75% (87% for "users of prehealth services" and 56% for nonusers)
Duke - 75%
WashU - 72%
Hopkins - 70% per year, and 80% within 5 years
Cornell - 67%
Vandy - 66%
UCLA - 51-59%
Berkeley - 51-56%
Of course, what none of these schools will tell high schoolers is that there is massive attrition!
75-90 sounds about right considering the student body there compared with places like BrownTufts is outside of the top 25 and has a higher acceptance rate than most of those
75-90% rising to over 90% if you only look at applicants with GPAs over 3.5
http://admissions.tufts.edu/academics/pre-health-information/