Is it really worth 250,000 ?

EricLG
Wed, 06 Apr 2011 23:58:50 +0000

Only two choices, Tulane and WashU ?

Tulane says:
Medical School Admission Rates: While the national admission rate to Medical Schools for all college students is 42%, Tulane students gain admission at a rate of 73% with a 95% admission rate for those students who earned a 3.70 GPA or above and a 33 or higher on the MCAT."

Beware the spin. First off, an MCAT of 33 is the 90th percentile of test takers so Tulane may or may not have had anything to do with those student’s success. Second, I visited schools with my daughter (not Tulane) that also boasted of stellar percentages of their pre-med students matriculating to medical school, but it turned out that students were weeded out of the pre-med curriculum by various means if they did not show early on they would succeed. Austin College comes to mind: I think 80% made it to medical school, but close to 80% of pre-med wannabes dropped out (or were dropped) by sophomore year. I may have the numbers a bit wrong but I don’t think by much.