Best undergraduate pre-med program

sakky
Mon, 26 Dec 2005 04:10:52 +0000

HYPS have 90% and they do not discourage anyone from applying. 90% sounds pretty close to guarentee



No it’s not. In fact, it’s not even close. That’s because you haven’t figured in all those HYPS people who didn’t even bother to apply to med-school because their premed grades/MCAT scores were too low. Those are the ‘hidden’ premeds that premed placement rates never capture, but you have to be cognizant of them when you determine what the ‘true’ premed placement rate is. That 90% rate only deals with those who actually apply, and says nothing about all those people who didn’t even make it to that step.

BS/MD programs, on the other hand, have no ‘hidden’ premeds. Basically, you know that every single entering student to one of these programs is a premed. Hence, it’s quite easy to determine what the ‘true’ premed placement rate of these programs is, as it’s just a matter of determining how many people are able to stay alive in the program to activate the guarantee.