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<p>Not sure where you got that statistic.</p>
<p>ACCEPTANCE RATE<br>
National Acceptance Rate 46%
Total MIT Undergraduate Applicants 82%
-Prehealth Advising Service User* 86%
-Acceptance Rate for 3.0 GPA<strong>or higher 87%
-Acceptance Rate for 3.3 GPA</strong> or higher 95%</p>
<p>I imagine Harvard is similar.</p>
<p>[Preprofessional</a> Stats - MIT
Careers Office](<a href=“http://web.mit.edu/career/www/infostats/preprof.html]Preprofessional”>http://web.mit.edu/career/www/infostats/preprof.html)</p>
<p>Medical school admission percentages are very misleading. At many colleges, recommendations are only written for those students advising administrators/ professors deem have a relatively high probability of a successful outcome. Students who have little/no chance of acceptance are encouraged to pursue post grad research, courses, and then reassess their likelihood of a favorable application outcome.</p>