Easier college for future MD?

mikemac
Wed, 02 Nov 2016 17:19:24 +0000

There are two smaller LAC schools in texas, very loose requirements to get in, and they have 90, 92% matriculation rates respectively to med school that is higher than Rice!!

This is actually a red flag. I would only advise someone to go to these schools intent on pre-med after careful digging to understand that number. Care to give the names of these schools?

There are 2 ways to get these eye-popping accept rates. One is to start with great students. It should be no surprise that kids getting into elite colleges that accept 5% or less turn out later to be in the 40% of med school applicants that are accepted.

The second and less well-known (among HS kids and their parents) method is to screen and only write a favorable committee letter to those with great chance of admission, as @happy1 has mentioned. All you really need to know is in this chart: https://www.aamc.org/download/321508/data/factstablea23.pdf Let me write the committee letters and I could get any college in the country an astounding accept rate.