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.
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 …