What I’m reading is that even after the “weeding out”, those fewer, remaining students are still rejected at a rate of 60% to 65%?
And according to the AAMC stats, those with MCAT scores around 500, and/or GPAs around 3.3, are rejected at rates of 80%.
It’s already bad enough for those 30,000 each year who had “stayed the course” just to never gain acceptance – now imagine how big those numbers were, if many had not been actively encouraged early-on to assess their outlooks, and possibly look for more attainable target professions?