Med school acceptance rate (overall)?

Bigredmed
Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:53:27 +0000

but by just their sophomore year (when they haven’t even taken the hardest course load yet!), 80% of them have changed their minds



The two most popular times to switch from being pre-med to something else at my undergrad were: after the first general chemistry exam (so basically middle of september), because they had studied soooo hard and still pulled a “D”, or after the end of first semester for kids that took Bio 101, which had an incredibly horrible lab for an intro level class. The kicker about Bio 101 however was that it wasn’t an absolute pre-req for any course (if it was a pre-req, you could have taken Bio 201 Cell Structure and Function and used that as the pre-req) and kids didn’t have to take it, even if they were bio minors or majors. And those two combined to remove most students from pre-med…Organic was a greater % removed (of the remaining pool of pre-meds), but a much smaller number.