PreMed Undergrad School

ucbalumnus
Fri, 25 Nov 2016 17:39:36 +0000

juillet:

Why is it that how many students who apply is important but the % accepted says nothing? Previously I would’ve expected, for example, a school where only 17% of the kids who applied to med school getting accepted to be bad and a school where 80% of the kids who applied to med school getting accepted to be good.

If the college has a pre-med committee that writes or does not write committee letters in support of medical school applicants (those not given committee letters are weeded out and told not to bother applying), the medical school admission rate may be more reflective of the pre-med committee’s threshold for writing a committee letter.

Being weeded out by the pre-med committee may not necessarily be a bad thing, even though it may feel bad. It means that a student with a poor chance of medical school admission will not have to waste effort, time, and money futilely applying to medical schools. However, some students may be willing to apply even with a lower chance of admission; such students may not want to attend a college where the pre-med committee has a higher threshold.