<p>How are both programs at this school? Matriculation to law and med school?</p>
<p>There is no pre-law nor pre-med program per say. Harvard shys away from encouraging professional degrees in that sense. Pre-law’ers could concentrate in economics, for example.</p>
<p>Besides–you don’t need to do a pre-whatever program…My mom, a Harvard grad and now an attorney, was a European history major.</p>
<p>The best thing to do at Harvard is to take advantage of all the amazing courses the school has to offer–don’t get caught up in the pre-“job” craze if you don’t have to.</p>
<p>Harvard purposefully does not post prelaw/premed statistical data online. To get it, you basically have to go to one of the Houses and look it up - it’s only available on paper, and you’re not allowed to make a copy. </p>
<p>However, I do have the online data for prelaws from Yale. I think we all can agree that the student bodies at Harvard and Yale are roughly equivalent. So I think the Yale prelaw data is a fair indicator of the equivalent Harvard data. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.yale.edu/career/students/gradprof/lawschool/media/statistics2003.pdf[/url]”>http://www.yale.edu/career/students/gradprof/lawschool/media/statistics2003.pdf</a></p>
<p>Notice that while Yale prelaws obviously enjoy a greater chance of getting into the top law schools as compared to prelaws nationwide, it’s no slam-dunk by any means. Over 80% of all Yale prelaws who applied to Yale Law get rejected, and almost 3/4 of all Yale prelaws who apply to Harvard Law get rejected. Furthermore, many Yale prelaws who apply to no-name law schools get rejected. For example, almost 40% of all Yale prelaws who apply to Brooklyn Law School get rejected. Also keep in mind that this data has to do with Yalies who actually apply to law school. There are many other Yalies who want to go to law school but don’t think they can get in, so they don’t even bother to apply. </p>
<p>I haven’t been able to locate the Yale premed data online. But here is the Princeton premed data. Again, I think we would all agree that Harvard premeds and Princeton premeds are roughly equivalent.</p>
<p><a href=“http://web.princeton.edu/sites/hpa/data98-03.htm[/url]”>http://web.princeton.edu/sites/hpa/data98-03.htm</a></p>
<p>Again, notice that while Princeton premeds do enjoy a higher chance of getting into med-school as compared to premeds nationwide, it’s no slamdunk by any means. Only 15% of Princeton premeds who apply to Harvard or Yale Medical get admitted, and only 13% who apply to Johns Hopkins get admitted. Plenty of Princeton premeds apply to no-name medical schools and get rejected. And again, this data obviously has to do with those Princeton students who actually apply to med-school. Many other Princeton students would like to go to med-school but don’t think they can get in so they don’t apply.</p>