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It’s not just the percent that get into med school. How many freshman premeds get weeded out? It’s how many actually make it to the point where the U committee endorses their med school apps.
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This is sooo true. I remember talking to a high school senior many years ago (class of 2006), when I knew nothing about the med school app process, and he said he was going to XXX university because it had a 90% med school acceptance rate.
He made it sound as if 90% of the freshmen premeds at his future Univ make it to med school!
Little did I know that this particular school weeds heavily, and maybe only 20% of those freshmen premeds ever applied to med school. The school further controlled the situation by refusing to write a Committee Letter for a student that whose stats weren’t high enough.
In the end, this student couldn’t get a CL…so he had to do a SMP. He did finally make it into med school thru the SMP and improving his MCAT and will be graduating with my son in May.
So, don’t put too much into anything schools report that make themselves “look good.”
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An old study about JHU suggested the med applicant number is a small fraction of those freshmen with dreams <<<
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Yes…and even JHU will admit that their med school acceptance numbers aren’t as high as they could be simply because some students ignore JHU’s advice and apply even tho their stats or app list won’t be successful.