Harvard's medical admissions data

T26E4
Fri, 07 Sep 2012 23:02:19 +0000

Plus, many students at schools such as Harvard are wooed away from the pre-med track or otherwise change their minds. Let’s say 300 possible pre-meds enter as freshmen. By Senior year, only 40 of them still intend to apply to med schools. If 38 get accepted, is that a good number or not? How about those who apply years after graduation who get accepted and rejected? Do those nos. get put in?

Harvard is an excellent school, prepping for med school or not. YOu shouldn’t be planning on going down the arduous H application process just because of some population’s med school admit rate. It has very very little correlation to your eventual path. Really. Apply to H if you think it’ll meet your scholastic needs, not solely as stepping stone to med school.

Logic would dictate that you go for the best school with a full ride and save the money for med school. That prolly isn’t Harvard for most people.