Chemistry vs. Biology vs. Biochem major?

belevitt
Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:23:50 +0000

You don’t need to be a superstar to be accepted into medical school. According to AMCAS (the organization that people apply to for medical schools, in order to send their apps to specific schools) there were 123,992 applicants between 2007 and 2009. 55,402 of these applicants were accepted making for a success rate of about 44%. [FACTS: Applicants, Matriculants, Graduates, and Residency Applicants - Data - AAMC](http://www.aamc.org/data/facts/) Granted not every person who was accepted was accepted to most or even many of the places they applied. 44% acceptance rate is a bit better than NBA superstar competition.

If we contrast this to acceptance rates into the NBA, we see that there are 546,000 high school basketball players of which 156,000 are seniors that are eligible for going into NCAA basketball. There are 4735 NCAA freshman positions available making for a success rate of about 3 percent. Of the 3682 seniors in NCAA basketball programs, 44 were drafted into the NBA. That means that the success rate of high school basketball players going into the NBA is about 0.008%. http://www.collegesports*****************/percentage-high-school-athletes-ncaa-college.htm Just because somebody made it to the NBA doesn’t guarantee that they will be superstars, but since I can’t estimate rates of superstar, I will leave my calculations at that.

Ergo, I don’t think that being accepted to medical school is as unlikely as being a superstar in the NBA.