<p>Mini, I think we would need to know what percentage of the Yale class applied–either successfully or unsuccessfully–to medical school in 1975 and 2002 in order to make any meaningful comparison. </p>
<p>My husband and I graduated in 1974, and as I said in the original story, it seemed as if an astonishing percentage of our class was applying to med school. It would be interesting to see how many Yalies who wanted to go to med school were denied admission in each of those two years. I certainly knew some kids who were rejected back in 1974–but since, (as you point out) med school admissions are easier now, I can’t tell whether the drop from 17% to 6% represents a surprisingly low rate of med school admissions–or a simply a radical drop in the number of students who apply for admission right after college. (Medicine does seem to have been a more popular choice of vocation back in the 1970s.)</p>