<p>I think you are meaningfully overstating the Duke and Stanford numbers for Michigan. They didn’t make it onto the charts every year, so there were years when each school sent 0-3 students there. The yearly average for Duke could not have been as high as 5 (and for Stanford could not have been higher than 6). Harvard averaged 8 per year (about 5% of the class, and 7% of everyone who hadn’t been a Michigan undergraduate).</p>
<p>I am stunned by the number of Harvards at these schools, but I am even more surprised at the number of Hopkins and Duke students. </p>
<p>Now, it’s worth noting, at least when looking at the longer-term cumulative WashU data, that until the class of 2008 or so Chicago was meaningfully smaller than it is today – less than half the size of Penn, and only 60% the size of Duke or Harvard. We also don’t know how many people from each college were applying to medical school. I am fully prepared to believe that the pool of Hopkins med school applicants is larger than the Chicago pool, even though the colleges are the same size.</p>
<p>Still . . . .</p>
<p>If I were Dean Boyer or Dean Nondorf, I would be worrying about this a little. Ultimately, the quality of Chicago’s undergraduate education gets validated by graduate schools and employers, and data like this make it look like there is some skepticism out there. I don’t think it’s Chicago’s job to get kids into med school at WashU, but if there’s some reason that Chicago applicants look uncompetitive for medical school at WashU (and elsewhere), I would sure as heck want to know what it was, and to think about fixing it or doing some marketing to convince the med schools they should rethink their positions.</p>