<p>Percentages galore!</p>
<p>Berkeley’s admit rate to top med schools in the last few years:</p>
<p>Harvard-3/361 (less than a 1% acceptance rate)
Johns Hopkins-9/340 (2.6%)
Columbia-12/132 (9%)
Cornell-9/322 (2.8%)
Duke-5/281 (1.8%)
Stanford-15/470 (3.2%)
UChicago-11/349 (3.2%)
Upenn-4/293 (1.4%)
University of Washington-6/150 (4%)
WashU-19/234 (8.1%)
Yale-6/288 (2%)</p>
<p>Berkeley’s med school acceptance rates:
<a href=“http://career.berkeley.edu/MedStats/national.stm[/url]”>http://career.berkeley.edu/MedStats/national.stm</a></p>
<p>Cornell’s med school acceptance rates:
<a href=“Career Services | Student & Campus Life | Cornell University”>Career Services | Student & Campus Life | Cornell University;
<p>I don’t see what the big deal is. All because I generalized Berkeley and Cornell’s acceptance rates as:</p>
<p>Cal: High 50’s-low 60’s
Cornell: High 70’s-80</p>
<p>And I pointed out that he was wrong in saying that Cornell screens it’s applicants when clearly it says on the link above:</p>
<p>“If you are comparing Cornell’s acceptance rates to other colleges, keep in mind that Cornell does not prevent any student from applying and includes in the Cornell data all those who applied.”</p>
<p>It’s not an indictment of Berkeley. Berkeley’s probably the best public school in the country for premed.</p>
<p>I don’t have any bias against public schools in California. My top choice for med school is UCSF.</p>