Dartmouth Class of 2028 Official Thread

CollegeDad8
Mon, 27 May 2024 18:11:56 +0000

Although only 63% of Dartmouth grads reported graduation plans, assuming the remaining 1/3 has the same result, here are numbers for post-BA med school (don’t know if data includes D.O. programs) and law school enrollment:

1,200 class size x 23% attending grad school = 276 attending grad school immediately after graduation. Of this:

10% or 28 attended med school (including unranked med schools), and
6% or 16 attended law school (perhaps some decided to attend law school later. Also, law schools exist with low admissions standards where essentially anyone can enroll in “a” law school)

Due to the rigorous ivy league premed programs, 2/3 to 3/4 of ivy league grads take gap years before med school. AAMC (med school admissions service) data states 137 applied to M.D. programs from Dartmouth last year. Assuming 1/3 were not alumni, and a 70% acceptance rate to “any” U.S. med school, the 28 straight from Dartmouth undergrad seems extremely accurate. It’s inline with Yale’s actual numbers, adjusted for class size:

cdn.ocs.yale.edu

2022-EXTENDED-STATISTICS_YALE-COLLEGE-MEDICAL-SCHOOL-APPLICANTS.pdf

My D opted for another slightly larger ivy with almost double the number of applicants/acceptances. The numbers are horrific everywhere including top flagship “premed” state schools. Hence why all schools report percentages instead.

What’s worse is that the largest typical weed-out is from starting freshman to the med school application stage. No school likes to report this percentage. One way to ballpark is count the number enrolled in freshman chemistry at the particular college. If it has a strong engineering program, you’ll have to deduct the estimated number of chemical engineering (and some other types of engineering) majors.

I state this so you know placement in life is not perfect from any college, even ultra highly competitive ones. For those who don’t get off the waitlist, your life is what you make it, not a college’s admissions committee which takes a few minutes to review your application.