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