Denison Class of 2029 Official RD Thread

tjun555
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 17:47:51 +0000

Great discussion regarding medical school alumni from different schools on this thread if you haven’t seen it. Probably should be taken with a grain of salt - I’m sure some schools attract more non pre-meds than others, which might bias the numbers.

Colleges with Acceptance Rates Above 20% & Strong Pre-Med Programs College Search & Lists

Getting into med school is hard, and most students who think they want to become doctors never do, no matter how strong of a student they were in high school or what college they end up attending (@WayOutWestMom has shared data on this before). But many students and/or families come to the board to ask about which colleges are especially good at preparing their students for med schools. This website (which I found from a link on law schools shared by @NiceUnparticularMan) lists 2024 data on the percentage of alums who attend(ed) any medical school: To give some framing, here’s some ranges of percentages of alums followed by what “rank” of colleges there were for that range: 4.0%: #1 (Johns Hopkins) 3.1-3.7% #2-5 (Harvard, Yale, Rice, & Brown) 2.0-2.9%: #6-23 1.0-1.9%: #24-65 0.5-0.9%: #66-148 0.1-0.4%: #148-297 Students and families tend to have an easy time finding low probability colleges, which are those that have acceptance rate of 20% or less (i.e. rejecting at least 80% of …