Actually those ND numbers do seem to check out.
Per AAMC, 276 ND applicants latest cycle. ND claims 75-85% of applicants get in. That’s 221 kids at 80%.
First year med school enrollment in USA is 21,000. 1% would be 210. QED. Seems like a pretty good production rate for a mid-sized private school. Duke would be up there too – they claim 85% so they’d have like 280 med school admits a year. I’m sure the usual suspects (HYPS, Penn Hopkins) are also in the 1% club. Since those are all smaller private schools, you’d think they’d be the per capita leaders.
Come one, the priests wouldn’t be lying to us, would they? : )
P.S. My pre-med considered but did not choose to attend ND. So I have no dog in that hunt. But the thing I actually appreciated about ND’s data presentation was that they talked about it straight up – this is exactly how many kids get in. So you didn’t have to filter through all of the BS about who gets put into the denominator and who gets weeded out. 200 admits a year is 200 admits a year.
Moving on.