Carleton vs. Middlebury vs. Swarthmore - PreMed to Med School Details

While helpful, remember the chart above is number of applicants, not number of acceptances.

Reach out to the pre-health advising departments at the schools on your list, after researching their websites.

-What kind of programs/resources do they have for pre-meds? Opportunities for patient facing experience (job or volunteer)?

-Do they give everyone who wants to apply to med school a committee letter? (some schools gatekeep, and only allow support students with X GPA and X MCAT)

-Do they have an MCAT prep course?

-What proportion of the applicants from the table above were graduating seniors?

-Do they help students apply after a gap year? After a Post-Bacc? After an SMP?

-What is their historical acceptance rate? (understand what’s in the numerator and denominator, vis a vis the categories in my previous questions)

All the schools that you list above with have good pre-health advising and resources. I might be concerned at Swat in particular and one’s ability to get a high GPA.

Bottom line, go to school where you can get a high GPA, has good pre-health advising, and major in something that you like.