<p>Cangel - of course that is true - but the number of places also expand, and each of those places is being filled…by someone! I don’t for one minute believe the quality of Yale students has dropped (if anything, I think they are probably better.) Nor the quality of education. But I do think, because Yale itself says so, that the gap in student quality between Yale med school applicants and those of other schools has narrowed very, very substantially. This is because 1) as Yale says, they reject entire classes of applicants every bit as academically talented as those they accept (and I believe them) - these students are going somewhere else; and 2) as student quality at these other institutions has increased, so has the quality of their academic programs; and 3) medical school admissions committees are well aware of this gap narrowing.</p>