BC vs Carnegie Mellon for premed

you are wasting your time searching for this number. Not that schools don’t track it per se, but the do make it hard to get. But more importantly, what does that number actually mean. Do you the parent, you are looking for the numerator and denominator for apps to allopathic med schools in the US. However, many colleges track any med school anywhere, so they include osteopathic med schools, med schools in the Caribbean, Mexico, and any where else. They, how does one count alums who apply a year or two after graduation, as such students might want to strengthen their applications with health care/med research, or take a little more time to study for the mcat?

And finally, how restrictive is teh school with “Committee Letters.” For example, Holy Cross likes to tout their ~80% acceptance rate to med schools, but that is really only 80% of those ‘approved’ by the HC Committee to actually apply. In other words, HC only actively supports its top students to apply to med school; by definition, those students will be successful in admissions. HC’s strong, but more average student will not receive the Committee recommendation to med schools, which is the kiss of death to the applicant.

fwiw: BC does have a Committee to advise in the process, but they help all students, even those with a really low chance of admission to med school.

My advice is to visit each and see which she likes better, what college she could call ‘home’ for four years. That will be the place that she is likely to do better.

Any financial considerations?