IVY vs State full ride PRE-MED

mini
Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:24:05 +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.

The real difficulty is, 1) sticking with it as an undergrad (lots of students don’t, though there is no such thing as a “pre-med” major, so that really isn’t much of a problem), and 2) paying for it.