<p>According to AAMC data, 238 Stony brook students applied to medical school last year, vs. 169 from Binghamton.
<a href=“https://www.aamc.org/download/161114/data/table2-6-masian2010-web.pdf.pdf[/url]”>https://www.aamc.org/download/161114/data/table2-6-masian2010-web.pdf.pdf</a></p>
<p>While Stony Brook produces more applicants, the numbers are completely in proportion to the relative sizes of the schools altogether. Stony Brook has 16,342 undergrads total, Binghamton has 11,787 undergrad students total.</p>
<p>However I do not see data on acceptance rates, either altogether or more importantly, for comparably qualified candidates. What one would really need to see is a comparison of results for applicants with the same MCAT and GPA from each school. </p>
<p>Nor do I know if grading standards at these two schools are identically the same, and/or are considered so by med schools. On the old Boalt Hall data,they found Binghamton law school applicants had a bit lower GPAs than Stony Brook law school applicants with equivalent LSATs. <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/oberlin-college/934935-toughest-schools-get.html?[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/oberlin-college/934935-toughest-schools-get.html?</a>. Since Binghamton undergrad admission class stats (SATs, etc) are higher than SB’s, it makes sense that grading would be a little tougher at Bing if both schools are curving their respective classes to a C, or whatever. Elsewhere on CC, former med school adcoms said relative college grading difficulty was taken into account, at least by the better private med schools. But the Boalt data is very old and for law school, and one does not know how perfectly the med school admissions people really address this.</p>
<p>Stony Brook has provided the following information regarding medical school admissions:
<a href=“http://www.stonybrook.edu/ugadmissions/forms/PreMedBrochure.pdf[/url]”>http://www.stonybrook.edu/ugadmissions/forms/PreMedBrochure.pdf</a>
(BTW, it’s really laughable that they would reference the Wall Street Journal “feeder school” article. It has many flaws, as has been discussed on CC many times. But more importantly, the Stony Brook rank in that study was caused by getting a total of just 4 individual students into the few top professionals schools that were included in the study !!!
<a href=“WSJ in Higher Education | Trusted News & Real-World Insights”>WSJ in Higher Education | Trusted News & Real-World Insights; )</p>
<p>All I see for Binghamton is this:
<a href=“http://www2.binghamton.edu/pre-health/documents/freshsoph.pdf[/url]”>http://www2.binghamton.edu/pre-health/documents/freshsoph.pdf</a>
Not much information to go on.</p>
<p>In the end, I see no data to compare admissions results of comparable applicants. So, no real, valid way to draw conclusions.</p>