The % of med school admittance is “supposed” to reflect the % that applied and were accepted to at least one MD school…although schools can manipulate the numbers a bit.
Obviously, the % is meaningless to an incoming frosh because 75% of premeds never apply to med school.
I think many high school students hear numbers like 75% or 85% of premeds get into med school, and they wrongly think that they, as an incoming frosh, will have such good odds.
If a school has 400 premeds frosh year, then likely only about 100 will still be premeds by junior/senior year.
Bio and Chem weed out frosh
Orgo weeds out sophs
MCAT scores weed out Jrs and Srs.
So, each year, the number of premeds at a school drops.
Sounds like the two that you know have GPA issues and are doing some sort of repair.
We think that my H’s niece needed GPA repair and maybe a borderline MCAT. She was premed all thru college, applied, failed, and then did a SMP. Applied again, failed, and now is in Pharm school.
@Dadof3