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Is this definition of “success” too ambitious and hard to achieve even for most premeds in Harvard?</p>
<p>I do not know about Harvard premeds. But I once heard that even among premeds from many ivy-level colleges, roughly 70% of medical school matriculants attend their in-state public medical schools. But it is also quite possible that they are into the specialties like cardiovascular surgery or dermatology, or becoming Chief of Neurology at a major teaching hospital, as many would claim it does not matter what med school a person attends. This may be true, but I also heard that a dermatology residency program may take a couple of residents only, unlike a IM or primary care program which often takes an order of magnitude more residents (say, 30 or 40 vs 3 or 4.) Very few become dermatologists in the end no matter what med school they attend. Is the class size of HMS like 160 or so? Is this number in the same order as the number of residents a year in all dermatology programs in the whole country?</p>