Princeton vs Yale

cmburns14
Wed, 31 Aug 2011 04:51:30 +0000

I agree with underachiever- if you look at PtonGrad2000’s stats on page 2, you’ll see that somewhere around 105 to 120 students/alums apply to medical school every year.

However, if you add up the typical pre-med majors- Anthropology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Molecular Biology and Psychology- that alone is about 200 majors a year. Then you add in a number of very strong chemistry majors, a handful of engineers and a large but unknown number of shadow pre-meds who major in softer subjects like politics, sociology and Woodrow Wilson- and you’ll see the potential applicant pool to medical school could easily be at around 400 students a year. Obviously a handful of biology majors will go on to earn PhDs- but excluding them- the others would want to go to medical school if it were a viable option.

Career opportunities for anthropology, psych and bio grads are very limited in their respective fields excluding MD programs.

The evidence indicates that Princeton administrators either actively discourage the weaker candidates from applying or the students self-select out of applying, realizing that their profiles are not competitive for admission to U.S. MD programs.