Med school acceptance rate (overall)?

aplusplus
Tue, 24 Oct 2006 03:15:54 +0000

Does anyone know the approximate percentage of everyone who applies and is accepted to med school (nationwide)? I know there are millions of people that try and I know that there are many many schools as well. So is it like if you’ll try hard you should make it into at least one med school (like undergraduate college), i.e., a pretty good chance of going to med school? Or rather is it bleak for everyone unless your the top-top of your class.

Or in other words, if you go through your undergraduate education with the mentality that you will go to med school, and do ECs and get good grades and about average MCAT scores, are you basically a shoe-in to at least one med school? That is, should you not be too concerned about not getting in?