<p>Sam Lee,</p>
<p>I know that an acceptance rate of 76% to medical school is very high. When I said “which is not very comforting”, I meant the fact that I could not find a link in this thread is not very comforting because estimates are not authoritative. It was a poor choice of words on my part.</p>
<p>While 76% is high, it’s possible that this is more than just a reflection of Northwestern’s academic prowess in pre-med… it also may reflect that Northwestern weeds weak pre-med students out of their program.</p>
<p>Though I’m not sure that Northwestern weeds out weaker applicants, almost all the top premed programs in the country discourage weaker applicants from applying to med school and tell them to take one or two gap years to really figure out what they want to do or do a masters and then apply to med schools.</p>
<p>Whether or not they weed out weak pre-meds is irrelevant- if they do either a) You are not one, and thus it doesn’t effect you or b) You ARE one, get weeded out, and its for hte best anyway because you likely wouldn’t have made it in the end and they just saved you years of possibly wasted education and aspiration.</p>