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Yes and no. Even schools that weed can still have results like that because they minimally discourage those with weaker stats from applying, and/or they minimally discourage crazy app lists.
I don’t know what goes on behind the scenes at JHU. The PreHealth advising office may do a better job at convincing their applicants to do as they tell them…apply early, don’t apply to a bunch of OOS publics, apply to all your instate SOMs, etc. I’m always shocked to see some applicants crazy app lists!
“apply early, don’t apply to a bunch of OOS publics, apply to all your instate SOMs, etc.”
Brief, somewhat related complaint that NH has no public medical schools and the closest thing it has to an agreement with other states is a tiny preference at Dartmouth, with a whopping 1.7% acceptance rate.
^^ Yes, it’s unfortunate that a few states don’t have an SOM. I think most that don’t have better agreements with SOMs or states that do. NH is at fault for not taking care of its applicants.
The purpose of such agreements and/or instate bias is that each state should have a vested interest in educating doctors for their state!
To get an agreement with a neighboring state I would imagine NH would have to pony up some $ to pay for part of the cost. That might be workable if there were an agreement with the student to work in-state for a certain amount of time. I wonder how those other affiliation agreements work?
UF med school acceptance rate is around the national average of about 42%. However, they have more than 700 people apply each year to med school, and the cost is a fraction of Emory’s.
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“Why do you think those other 46% rec’d no acceptances?”
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Bad MCAT scores?
“Where are you seeing that Emory SOM gives a preference to Emory applicants?”
Nobody is going to tell you they do that, especially adcom.
“Maybe you’ve done very well in the premed prereqs so you’re not aware of what’s going on with others.”
I’ll be honest, I really like my premed classes and I haven’t found them to be too challenging (I dread physics though). However, if I went to a school like UC Berkeley, I probably wouldn’t do so well - horrible, horrible curves. At Emory, you get what you earn and I like that.
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@r4cheh Yeah, I think Emory would be too expensive for you. Apply and see if you get in. If they give you anything (which isn’t likely), definitely go there! University of Florida is an excellent school too and dirt cheap! In this case, I would go to the cheaper school. Good luck!
If you can make the financials make sense, Emory is a great school. However, we always have a few kids at our local HS decline Emory and choose UF (or FSU/UCF/USF), simply based on cost.
For 2015-2016, the top 5 institutions supplying undergraduate applicants to U.S. Medical Schools:
UCLA: 961
UC-Berkeley: 819
UF: 802
UT-Austin: 783
U-Michigan: 782
(the above does not consider acceptance rates, only number of applicants)
If you haven’t already, you may also want to consider some of your other in-state options. FSU, UCF, USF, all have med schools (which helps with EC’s) and generate a fairly large number of med school applicants.
USF: 366
FSU: 341
UCF: 324
They also are much more likely than UF to offer merit scholarships, honor programs, and very competitive, accelerated med school programs.