Medical School Placement Number Tricks

el_duque
Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:38:44 +0000

Here’s another way of looking at it:

How many pre-meds do you think apply to Emory Med each year? 90%? maybe 80%?

Emory’s med school class sizes are 138 students.

How many Emory students do you think they want?

Last year Emory Med accepted applicants from 61 different schools, meaning there were at most 78 (but probably more like 10) students from Emory.

Emorydeac said 157 students from emory are going to med school next year, which means, given our acceptance rate to at least one school, there were somewhere around 285 students applying to Med school.

Even if only half of them applied to Emory, that’s still 143 applications for 10-78 spots. So even if you were just considering numbers, all opinions aside, throw in the other 5500+ applicants and there’s no way for Emory students to have an advantage in admissions. None.

And I agree with colleges, this thread is ■■■■■■■■. But then again, so is putting yourself through 12+ years of schooling/residency and 200k in the hole to become a doctor after Obama just destroyed a huge chunk of your salary. Have fun living a middle class life after finally paying off your student loans at the age of 40. I’ll be paying you with my infinite pool of non-existent Medicaid reimbursement funds.