Medical School Placement Number Tricks

Colleges00701
Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:50:26 +0000

but I am trying to point out that other schools inflate their data to make it seem like a higher med school placement rate than it is in reality.



^^^ Your thread makes it seem like thats the only reason that other comparable schools have higher percentages then emory does. Its not.



You say that Emory pre-health advising is a problem. That does not explain why 1/2 the kids can’t get a 30 on the MCAT.

^^^ They probably don’t advise students on the “best” way to prepare for the MCATs, when to prepare, how to prepare, how long to prepare, what resources they should use to prepare, etc.



Also, can I ask what year you are at Emory?

I will be a sophomore next year.



I never claimed that other Top 20 schools other than JHU screen applicants… all I said is that such a fact would be hard to know even if your “freinds” say so.

You were saying that other top 20 schools stop applicants from applying (NO SCHOOL WILL TELL YOU, YOU CAN’T APPLY TO MEDICAL SCHOOL,) which is true unless you are looking at JHU.



My S and I were at Emory last week and specifically asked if they “weed out” or select those that get the composite letter.

Yes they don’t “weed out” or tell kids they can’t apply to medical school. However, schools like EMORY, Rice, Vanderbilt, Cornell, make their science classes difficult so only the best students make the grades necessary to make into medical school. Since it happens at Emory, and at other top schools, it doesn’t explain Emory’s low pre-med acceptance rate.

Emory’s Medical School has explicitly told Emory’s Undergrad that they need to make KEY CRITICAL CHANGES to bring Emory’s Pre-Med program on par with other “peer” schools. (Ie Cornell, Rice, Vanderbilt, Brown)

I am going to let this thread die, because all this thread does is make excuses for a pre-med program that NEEDS MAJOR CHANGES. HAHA funny thing was that the op made this thread simply because in another post, I made the statement that Emory’s pre-med program needs a lot of work.