<p>@pinegood,</p>
<p>Your information on Cornell not having summer clinical opportunities for its premed students is grossly incorrect. They have a Urban Semester program where Cornell premed students can participate in medical rotations at various hospitals in NYC in the summer. This is a fact as my son will be a participant in this program this summer. Two caveats though: (1) you have to apply for this program and there is a min. GPA cutoff of 3.0 (B average) to qualify (2) it is formally a summer course, so you may have to pay a summer tuition to participate (although they do provide financial aid for needy students).</p>
<p>In addition, contrary to rumors on the internet, Cornell still gives out admission statistics on years after 2010. My son attended a premed orientation session as a freshman and they provided all the admission statistics (more details than is publicly available on its website for previous years, with acceptance rate against various combinations of GPA and MCAT score). They did emphasize several things when comparing admission statistics from different schools: (1) As many pointed out already, Cornell excludes DO acceptances and only includes MD schools, and that really will skew the overall statistics by A LOT (all the students with GPA between 3.0 to 3.4 will have significant if not full acceptance rate into DO schools, but unfortunately, most of these students will likely be all fall under the null pool for MD acceptances) (2) minorities acceptances have not been included (3) they included all and not just first-time applicants, which according to the premed advisor, if only first-time applicants were to be included, the admission statistics will look a “little” stronger. As can be surmised, out of the above three factors, the effect due to factor (1) would be most significant, and it is not far-fetch to imagine that the statistics will be >7-10% higher if DO schools were to be included. Another important factor is that Cornell does not filter out students as applicants to med school, whereas according to many other sources, in order to preserve favorable admission statistics, a lot of school do restrict students who are deemed to be “under-qualified” to apply to medical school.</p>
<p>All in all, my overall message is that one has to take extreme caveats in comparing medical school admission statistics between schools.</p>
<p>Good luck to you in whatever school you decide to attend.</p>