Med school acceptance rate (overall)?

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Tue, 24 Oct 2006 03:46:30 +0000

Obtaining admission to medical school in the United States (for non-URM applicants) would compare to gaining acceptance from secondary school to one of the Ivy’s, the top 5 to 10 small liberal arts colleges or Stanford or MIT - in others words it’s super-competitive

The difference being that pre-meds would need to take major coursework in chem, biology etc except a few programs like Brown which is also highly competitive

“Trying hard” is not sufficient - you have to score very high on the MCAT tests and will have to be near the top 5% of any average college and probably the top one-third at the very top colleges - with outstanding performance in pre-med courses

The overall acceptance rate is between 30 to 50% - but that is highly deceptive because these are for the most part (in general) the top graduating science major students in the country -with many others simply dropping out of pre-med or not (in the end) not applying to med school because of the extreme competition