<p>I’ve heard that HMS accepts no more than 2 pre-meds from any single House at the College. Is this true or just another myh?</p>
<p>Hopefully I don’t get a pathetic fallacy response.</p>
<p>Damn…5482 applicants –> 165 seats (3%)</p>
<p>Myth. There are no quotas for how many Harvard students they accept, let alone how many from each House. The only semi-truth about all of the rumors that float around about Harvard grad school acceptance is that a decent chunk of any Harvard grad school is comprised of Harvard College alums. From what I’ve heard, this does not mean that a College student would be accepted over another person or has a better shot at an H grad school…it’s just how it works out.</p>
<p>Due to the self-selective nature of Harvard pre-meds/ pre-pheds I assume?</p>
<p>According to the rumor I heard, HMS accepted a grand total of six kids from all of Harvard College this year. It was a real bloodbath. This hardly allows room for any within-House quotas. </p>
<p>Harvard pre-meds had good luck getting into medical schools this year, just not Harvard medical school.</p>
<p>I don’t know about bloodbath. In the 1990s, a young family friend of mine, who graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from harvard College with a senior thesis which his advisor thought was of publishable quality, was denied admission at HMS. Not to worry: he is a very successful physician now.</p>
<p>D’s friend was a pre-med at Harvard College this year and was one of the many who didn’t get into HMS. She will be entering Yale Medical School this fall. She also was accepted at Cornell and maybe some other medical schools too. So I suppose it’s no harm/no foul for her. But I think she would have preferred to stay at Harvard.</p>