<p>Thanks to WOWmom to repost this link for the future premeds.
( I think this link and the GPA-MCAT grid link were posted by several CCers before.)
Maybe it is my bias (so I have no way to validate this:</p>
<p>If you look at the ratio of the number of white applicants from an institute and the total number of applicants from the same institute, some school (e.g., JHU) would have a lower ratio of white applicants. I think you could reach the conclusion out of this fact. My biased conjecture is that many non-white, “I want to become a top surgeon since middle school” type of students are attracted to this kind of school. Look at another example: UC Irvine vs a nearby school USC. There is also some difference there in this ratio. This may imply that there are much more premeds who choose to go a “cheaper” route to the medicine career (after all, it usually costs more to attend USC than a UC, I think.)</p>
<p>Another point: the total number of applicants from an institute include alumni applicants. Usually, the more prestigious of the college, the higher percentage of alumni applicants. Their families tend to have more resources unless the students were recruited for special reasons and their families are not of the “same caliber” in their resourcefulness.</p>