Stats - number of med school admissions from a university

[Mwfan1921]

@ucbalumnus

if you want to take your chances applying to medical school even if your chances are not good. It may actually be better for a student with poor chance of admission to be advised to switch to plan B earlier, rather than wasting a lot of time and money on futile medical school applications.

Pre-health advisors at schools that don’t make use of committee letters should still be advising students of their realistic chances of admission. Really can’t make the final recommendation until the MCAT score is in.

@ucbalumnus

For a college with a pre-med committee, would the medical school admission rate be an indicator of how high a chance of admission the pre-med committee will need for endorsing medical school applications?

I don’t really know any undergrad school (that doesn’t mean there aren’t any) that gives detailed med school acceptance stats. It’s critical to know know certain facts to get the context: URM/ORM status, how many years work experience a successful candidate had, or whether they did a post-BACC or SMP just to name a few important variables. Of course MCAT and relevant GPAs are critical to know too…but really need these other details for context.