IVY vs State full ride PRE-MED

cobrat
Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:42:52 +0000

Roughly 45% of first-time med school applicants get admitted somewhere. When you add in those who are admitted on the second try, it is probably closer to 50%. While I wouldn’t downplay the difficulty, med school isn’t nearly as difficult to get into as a bunch of humanities and social science Ph.D. programs where fellowships are paid.



I’ve known several friends with 3.7+ Ugrad GPAs from places like Berkeley, tippy top MCAT scores, internships in hospitals, ECs, and stellar recommendations get rejected 3+ times in a row before suddenly getting admitted to some fine med schools like UChicago, Columbia, BU, NYU, etc…sometimes with partial-tuition scholarships.