Medical School Placement Number Tricks

emorydeac
Sun, 11 Apr 2010 22:37:01 +0000

I know this is not going to be PC but I supect Emory’s diversity may be affecting the acceptance numbers. While the diversity at Emory has enhanced my son’s college experience (he chose Emory over other schools due to the diversity), it can also hurt the racially diverse applicant. While this helps an African American applicant, I suspect it hurts other racially diverse applicants. Does this explain all the questions asked by colleges, no, but I think it is an important issue. For full disclosure purposes, I am a caucasian male MD who was involved with medical school admissions as a medical student and my son is currently an Emory Scholar who loves the premed program at Emory. He has found the school has far exceeded his expectations with multiple opportunities to seek help from professors, study abroad in the summer (he is going to London this summer to study comparative health care systems under the CIPA program), extensive research opportunities in the college/med school/graduate programs, and great advice from anyone you are willing to take the time to talk too. In the end, Emory has great opportunities, you simply must pursue them and make them happen. As an example, my son plans on doing an MD/PhD and he has talked to the head of the Emory Med School program and sought his advice on undergraduate course work and research opportunities. The director was more than happy to arrange an appt with a second semester freshman. He has taken Chem from the same prof each semester, worked with the prof on Chemory (chem demo team), gone on chem seminar with prof in SF (at schools expense) and has eaten at this profs home. Do you think he will be able to get a good recomendation? Again, I think many Emory students do not avail themselves to such wonderful opportunities as it takes extra effort. Emory is an outstanding college to do premed. I did! Anyway, here is a link to my theory.