Brown vs Duke - premed

tsbna44
Thu, 13 May 2021 03:10:18 +0000

1/3 of Duke is pre-med…seems high. Might be right. But seems high. Only 250 apply to medical school. Based on the majors I wouldn’t say 1/3.

Computer Science 282 Graduates

Economics 218 Graduates

Public Policy Analysis176 Graduates

It goes down fast from there. Then you say 250 apply - here are the #s - from someone at Princeton. I’ll assume they are correct.

So your thesis that Duke doesn’t deliver may be off.

Only about 17% of US Freshman pre meds earn admission to med school. About 140,000 start out. Half drop the program before completion. Of those who “stick it out” and take the MCAT (~70,000), half do not do well enough on the MCAT even to apply. Of the ~ 35,000 who apply, a little under half get in. Among the ~18,000–20,000 applicants who are rejected (and some of those who didn’t apply after their first MCAT), about 6,000 will eventually earn admission on subsequent attempts.