<p>Hard to tell from the stuff posted, but I suspect the reality isn’t “want to go to med school? Go to music school and apply” <em>lol</em>. I suspect the reason is that the size of the group of people who went to music school applying to med school is relatively small, so outcomes are easily skewed (it is why small sample sizes in statistics are considered meaningless).</p>
<p>When it comes to pre med, unless things have changed since my years in college (and no, Newton wasn’t teaching physics back then, maybe Clerk-Maxwell was…), most pre med students tended to major in chemistry or biology related disciplines (some kids do it in engineering), and they have huge numbers comparatively, so I am not surprised the acceptance rate is lower for those kinds of majors as opposed to music. Plus I would also hazard a guess that music majors who make it through to graduation are a pretty dedicated group of kids, that if they are able to do the music program and maintain high grades, that they already have an edge up. I also wonder what kind of music majors we are talking about, is it a BM student or a BA (could make a difference, too). But overall I think it is the numbers, that there just aren’t a lot of kids who do music and pre med, so it isn’t surprising they would have a higher rate.</p>