<p>You should be careful about drawing conclusions from such raw statistics as the percentage accepted. </p>
<p>Why?</p>
<p>Because reporting standards, and the approach to premed education vary greatly from college to college. As others have pointed out, some schools actively manage the med school application process, to the point of informally or formally screening candidates. Only candidates that pass a pre-screen have supported applications, and these are the only ones counted in the reported statistic, to use one example.</p>
<p>You folks would be a whole lot better off getting advice from students at U of C, especially successful med school applicants. </p>
<p>Keep in mind too, that the attrition rate from pre-med is high everywhere. IMHO, you would be better off focusing on finding a place for a good education in a variety of topics, rather than narrowly focusing on one possible career path that you may not stick to anway.</p>
<p>IF you were so committed to medicine already, you should be looking at one of the accelerated programs that chicago doesn’t offer.</p>