Emory vs UW vs Saint Louis university for premed pls help

crankyoldman
Sat, 04 May 2019 00:21:12 +0000

Notwithstanding WashU’s public statistics-which don’t include a number of potential applicants-it is important to remember that there is no agreed definition about who is or is not “pre-med” for purposes of published statistics. In the WashU case, the numbers are not comprehensive, excluding two of the schools at WashU. In addition, these numbers only count those who applied to medical school for the first time, which would be after junior year at the earliest. So how many pre-meds were accepted at Wash U as freshmen? Or finished first year and didn’t ultimately apply to medical school? Or second year, etc? Or applied years after graduation?

What about second or third time applicants?
Unless and until there is an agreed definition of pre-med student, any published numbers are subject to manipulation and are not particularly helpful. In OP’s case, the question is regarding an incoming freshmen; WashU doesn’t tell us how many of those wash out(sorry, couldn’t help it) from pre-med long before the time comes to apply to medical school.
So the most direct answer to OP’s question is: who knows? There’s no definition of pre-med, and no school publishes the number of freshmen pre-med students, and then the number of those students who are still at that school and ultimately apply.