Med School Admission is really this competitive?

Davefan13
Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:38:21 +0000

I’m a junior in high school and have been really thinking about and looking into what I want to do with my life. I am leaning towards medicine at the moment, and have spent hours pouring over books and the computer reading about career options, school, etc etc.

Anyway…I was looking into admission rates for med schools and found this page on the IU website…
http://www.medicine.iu.edu/documents/factSheets/current.pdf

For those of you who are to lazy to open it, it says that out of 3598 applicants, 322 were accepted to the school.

So, my questions are

1. I am reading this statistic correctly?

2. I am from Indiana, and if possible, would like to stay in Indiana for med school. IU is the only medical school in Indiana.

3. I was hoping to attend IU for my undergraduate degree and take the prerequisite courses for pre-med. Do I have a better chance of getting in the the IU School of Medicine if I am an undergraduate student at IU?

And a random, unrelated question - does IU have a pharmacy program?

Thanks