Pre med acceptance to med school?? Please read

Jugulator20
Tue, 14 Jul 2015 15:35:13 +0000

In answering this question, you must first realize that Penn State has a large group of non-traditional applicants……With this in mind, the application/accept figures for the past several years show that of all students across the University who applied for medical school admission, …… And finally, in looking at just the undergraduate Premedicine majors who applied, about 70% were accepted. These above figures compare with an overall national accept rate of about 40%.

As I read Penn State statement above:

all students across the University **who applied ** for medical school admission.
How many students started as “premed”, crashed and burned along the way, never made it to actually applying, and are now on different career pathways?

the undergraduate ** Premedicine majors who applied **. Notice the capital P in Premedicine. It’s not the generic premed but refers to a specific major. According to PSU’s website, the following is required just to be eligible for this major is:

In order to be eligible for entrance to the Premedicine major, a student must have: 1) attained at least a 3.20 cumulative grade-point average; and 2) completed BIOL 110 GN(4), BIOL 230W GN(4), CHEM 110 GN(3), CHEM 111 GN(1), CHEM 112 GN(3), CHEM 113 GN(1), CHEM 210(3), MATH 140 GQ(4), MATH 141 GQ(4) and earned a grade of C or better in each of these courses.

http://bulletins.psu.edu/undergrad/programs/baccalaureate/P/P%20M

Again how many students started as “premed”, crashed and burned along the way in the above courses, never made it into this major, much less actually applied, and are now on different career pathways?

Be very,very wary of accepting of a college’s reporting of their med school acceptance rates. Getting into med school is more the result of an individual student’s effort and less about the name on their diploma