Pre med acceptance to med school?? Please read

i_wanna_be_Brown
Tue, 14 Jul 2015 18:09:40 +0000

Another thing to think about is to look at the GPA/MCAT scores of the average applicant from each school. For example, Brown’s acceptance rate for 2012-2014 was 85.3% compared to the national average of 44%, but look at the average stats for these accepted students: http://www.brown.edu/academics/college/advising/health-careers/medical-admission-data-snapshot The national average for an accepted med student is 3.63/31.4. For a Brown student, it’s 3.67/34. Now I know that’s the accepted students but since that’s 85.3% of the Brown applicants let’s treat that number as representative of all Brown applicants. The AAMC reports that an applicant with a 3.67/34 has a 75.6% chance of being admitted (https://www.aamc.org/download/321508/data/factstable24.pdf). Now, obviously that’s still less than 85.3%, but it’s certainly much closer to 85.3 than it is to 44. The reason top schools do well is because they start with better students.

And hey, what do you know, Brown is fudging the numbers a bit just like I said schools do (and not all schools are as forthcoming about it to put it right there on the website):

Includes applicants to M.D., D.O. and foreign medical schools. Does not include students admitted to the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University from the Program in Liberal Medical Education (PLME).

Also, there is no mechanism in operation at Penn State where students are pre-screened to determine who can or who cannot apply for medical school admission.

How many kids do you think apply after they meet with the pre-med advisor and he tells them they have very poor chances of getting admitted to medical school? The former Brown pre-med advisor did not mince words, and I know first hand of about 4 or 5 people who left his office in tears because they were flat out told they had little to no chance of getting admitted if they applied. All but one of them chose not to apply (as in the school would have written them a committee letter if they had applied), the one who did apply was not admitted anywhere.