Pre med acceptance to med school?? Please read

mom2collegekids
Tue, 14 Jul 2015 15:43:01 +0000

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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.
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Most schools do not have a mechanism to pre-screen students to determine who can or who cannot apply to med schools. Some with modest stats will still ‘try’. However, most premeds with modest stats will change their career paths long before the end of junior year. Usually some poor/modest Gen Chem or OChem grades motivate them to change paths. However, as the PSU words indicate, some will insist on “trying”…maybe because of family pressure or maybe because they’re just naive as to how low their chances are.

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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, about 60% were accepted.

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Yes, that would be the net result if there are a number of applicants who have some sort of inadequate application (grade issue, MCAT issue, LOR issues, whatever)

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If you consider just the junior year undergraduate students who applied, about 65% were accepted. 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%.

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Yes, but again, none of this tells a high school kid anything. There is no mention of how many incoming frosh premeds ended up applying to med school, and how many succeeded.

What are your stats?