Princeton Pre-med placement

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<p>Is there info about how many Princeton premeds enter which medical schools ?</p>

<p>[Yale</a> University Bulletin | School of Medicine 2012?2013 | Doctors of Medicine](<a href=“Welcome | Office of the University Printer”>Welcome | Office of the University Printer)</p>

<p>From Yale med web site about 2 Princeton UG entered Yale med</p>

<p>And 15+ Yale students enterd Yale Medical School </p>

<p>Where can I find similar statistics for other medical schools ?</p>

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<p>It takes some work to find and total all of these numbers but your counting is a bit off in this instance. For this single class at Yale Medical School, here are the undergraduate origins of the students:</p>

<p>Yale Medical School Class of 2012</p>

<p>12—Yale</p>

<p>[gap]</p>

<p>7----Stanford
5----Harvard
4----Columbia
3----Princeton, Cornell, Duke, MIT, Penn, U. of Georgia, U. of Notre Dame, U. of Washington
2----Amherst, Brown, Cal State, JHU, NYU, USC</p>

<p>This is, of course, just a single year at a single top medical school and I suspect that this difference in the number of Yale undergraduates compared to those from other top schools is not found every year. It’s likely that this year was a bit of an ‘outlier’ though it would not be surprising to find that Yale undergraduates offered admission to Yale Medical School are more likely to accept that offer… </p>

<p>Princeton graduates are among the most successful in the country in medical school admissions. In recent years about 93% of Princeton applicants have been admitted to medical school. Here are some recent statistics:</p>

<p>Year of Matriculation—Number of Applicants Accepted—% of Applicants Accepted</p>

<p>2006-----------------------107-----------------------------------------94.7%
2007-----------------------108-----------------------------------------93.1%
2008-----------------------114-----------------------------------------91.2%
2009-----------------------107-----------------------------------------93.0%
2010-----------------------123-----------------------------------------92.5%</p>

<p>(Average % Acceptance Rate Over Five Years = 93%)</p>

<p>In 2008 and 2009, Princeton students who applied to a Top 10 medical school were offered admission at a rate more than three times the overall admit rates at those schools.”</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/odoc/faculty/grading/faq/[/url]”>http://www.princeton.edu/odoc/faculty/grading/faq/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Nationally, about 30% of students taking the MCAT score in a range that makes them competitive for medical school admission. At Princeton it’s 80% and this, again, is among the highest in the nation.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/hpa/premed/2012-HPA-FAQ.pdf[/url]”>http://www.princeton.edu/hpa/premed/2012-HPA-FAQ.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>It is important to note that only a handful of other schools in the country have Princeton’s record of success in medical school applications. </p>

<p>Yale applicants to medical school enjoy a success rate in the low 90% range, very similar to Princeton’s. </p>

<p>“Jones said: in the last decade, acceptance rates for Yale students and alumni applying to medical school have risen by about 10 percent, from 80 percent to about 90 percent. “</p>

<p>[Premed</a> advising gets a check-up | Yale Daily News](<a href=“http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2010/apr/23/premed-advising-gets-a-check-up/]Premed”>http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2010/apr/23/premed-advising-gets-a-check-up/)</p>

<p>Harvard’s statistics aren’t reported publicly but are similar to Princeton’s and Yale’s. I suspect Stanford’s are similar as well but I can’t find any current reported numbers.</p>

<p>Here’s an analysis of how Princeton has compared to its peers in medical school admissions.</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/9601150-post9.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/9601150-post9.html&lt;/a&gt;
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<p>According to Princeton Annual report only 38 Princeton grads entered Medical School
<a href=“Search Opportunities | Human Resources”>Search Opportunities | Human Resources;

<p>Why is number of successful applicaiton is greater than 100 (as shown in poster #2) ?</p>

<p>The number of “successful application” shown in poster #2 includes multiple acdeptances ? For example, if each of 38 student get 2-3 acceptance letter = 100 successful “application” ???</p>

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<p>Champ, I’m afraid that you are quite confused. There are no multiple acceptances in these numbers.</p>

<p>The figure of 123 Princeton applicants entering medical school in 2010 includes alumni. A great many students take a year off after undergraduate school prior to entering medical school. Many others have decided on a medical career too late in their undergraduate careers to have time to complete medical school prerequisites by the time of graduation. Many of these students finish their pre-med courses at another institution and enter medical school the year after that. This is true at all of Princeton’s peers and, in fact, at most universities. </p>

<p>Neither Harvard nor Yale reports exact numbers of graduating students headed to medical school or law school and Yale confuses comparisons even more by waiting a full year after graduation to compile its statistics. However, overall, Princeton has, among these three, the highest percentage of each graduating class going directly to graduate school and the percentage breakdown of those attending law, medical and graduate school in the arts and sciences is about the same at all three. Overall, Harvard will send somewhere around 50 graduating seniors to medical school each year and Yale somewhere in the low 40’s. Princeton is the smallest of the three schools while Harvard is the largest and on a percentage basis each of the three sends about the same number to medical school directly after graduation.</p>

<p>Here are the closest comparisons I could find.</p>

<p>Class-------------------------Employment–Graduate School–Other Activities</p>

<p>Harvard ’11 (6 months after graduation)----71%---------21%------------8%
Princeton ‘11 (6 months after graduation)–73%----------23%-----------4%
Yale ’10 (one year after graduation)---------75%----------21%-----------4%</p>

<p>Harvard: [OCS-Students:</a> Jobs / Senior Survey 2011](<a href=“http://www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu/students/jobs/seniorsurvey.htm]OCS-Students:”>http://www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu/students/jobs/seniorsurvey.htm)
Princeton: [Princeton</a> Office of Career Services 2010-2011 Annual Report](<a href=“http://issuu.com/pucareerservices/docs/annual_report_2010-2011?mode=window&backgroundColor=%23222222]Princeton”>http://issuu.com/pucareerservices/docs/annual_report_2010-2011?mode=window&backgroundColor=%23222222)
Yale: [Yale</a> “Factsheet” | Office of Institutional Research](<a href=“http://oir.yale.edu/yale-factsheet#GraduateActivities]Yale”>http://oir.yale.edu/yale-factsheet#GraduateActivities)</p>

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<p>PtonGrad2000,</p>

<p>a lot of your links are broken…
Is there a way I can view them?</p>

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<p>You’re worrying too much. Princeton (just like all top schools) is an absolute force of nature in almost every single area, and it sends plenty of students to top medical schools every year. In fact, almost all med schools look especially favorably on Princeton’s pure focus on UGs.</p>

<p>These are numbers for one top med school in one single year.</p>

<p>P.S. Even if you find some sort of correlation between top med schools and Princeton’s admittance rate, it’s probably meaningless, and is not suggestive. The only correlation that could potentially be merited, is the high percentage rates of colleges who feed their med schools with their own students (i.e. Yale College sending a lot of their own students to Yale’s School of Medicine.)</p>