Pre-med Colleges

ucbalumnus
Mon, 10 Dec 2018 20:13:02 +0000

WayOutWestMom:

BTW, the best thing you could do to improve your daughters chances for a med school admission is to relocate to someplace else than CA. CA has the worst med school admission rates of any state in the US. Too many qualified applicants, too few med school seats.

see: Applicants to U.S. Medical Schools by In or Out-of-State Matriculation Status, 2018-2019

Based on https://www.aamc.org/download/321466/data/factstablea5.pdf that is linked above, it looks like California is not the worst, but is not good either, particularly for lower-cost in-state medical schools (and California public medical schools have higher in-state costs than those in many other states). Lower cost in-state medical schools can be found if you can move and gain residency for them in New Mexico or Texas, though medical school applicants in those states get shut out (of any medical school, including out-of-state or private) at similar rates as those in California. But some other states (particularly in the northeast and some other western states) would not be an improvement from a pre-med standpoint compared to California.