<p>jack, I am not sure I ever heard of that criticism. It is probably a result of disgruntled applicants with a sense of entitlement. Michigan alums have long made up one third of the University of Michigan Medical School total population. You cannot ask for more. I have posted figures above. WUSTL and JHU, arguably two of the largest premed student bodies (relative to their size of course) place only 15 or so of their alums in their own medical programs. UCLA seems to have a similar placement figure of 15 or so annually. Michigan’s average of 50+ each year is clearly an outlier, which is why I started this thread. I have yet to see a medical school that enrols more than 25 of its own alums in its program annually, let alone 50 or 60. I am sure there are some that do, but they are the exception rather than the rule.</p>