Do average hs students become doctors and vets?

Data10
Sun, 14 Jul 2013 21:23:09 +0000

These are acting as weeder classes at Stanford where 600-700 students show up aspiring to be doctors each year and only 200-250 get there 4 years later.

I’ve seen lower numbers for the percent that start out pre-med at Stanford. For example, the news story at [Stanford welcomes Class of 2016 and incoming transfer students](You’ve requested a page that no longer exists | Stanford News) mentions 17.4% of the class of 2016 were primarily interested in pre-med or pre-law, which is ~300 students. There is Daily article that mentions that 300-400 that apply to med school per year, but it’s not clear what percent of those are new grads and what are former grads. I do agree that a good portion of students do drop out of pre-med because of lower grades or perception of grades. The study at The Leaky Pipeline: Factors Associated With Early Decline in... : Academic Medicine; emphasizes chem classes in particular. There are also a good number of students who switch for reasons besides grades. It’s been my experience that many apply and get accepted with grades less than a B+ in multiple core science classes. The middle grade non-hook students I knew didn’t go to Stanford, Harvard, or similar extremely selective med school. Instead they went to quality schools that were less selective. I’d expect this group achieved quality scores on their MCAT.