Schools to Apply for Pre Med

Megametahead, mom2collegekids just explained why those acceptance rates at Tulane are bogus. Any school can have a close to 90% acceptance rate if they weed hard enough. That’s not the measure of good ‘pre-med’ advising.

And the key data is provided by the AAMC for perusal at your leisure:

https://www.aamc.org/data/facts/applicantmatriculant/157998/mcat-gpa-grid-by-selected-race-ethnicity.html

The only other data that matters is med school specific, starting with whether they take out-of-state students (many state medical schools don’t). If you are a resident of Louisiana, you are in great shape because the state medical schools won’t accept students from elsewhere. If you are from CA, you are almost forced out of state because they have so many more applicants/seats. It’s not that LA schools are better at pre-med advising than CA schools.