USC vs DUKE

[goldenboy8784]

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@camomof3

Duke is a committee letter school and USC is not. The admit rate you are citing is like comparing apples to oranges. Duke does not have to write committee letters for all students wanting to apply to med schools (and will control who applies by doing so-- like a pre-screen).

You’re totally off on that camomof3, check out this link below:</p>

<p><a href=“http://prehealth.duke.edu/wp-content/uploads/Table-1-Acceptance-patterns-20092.pdf[/url]”>http://prehealth.duke.edu/wp-content/uploads/Table-1-Acceptance-patterns-20092.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Duke does not utilize committee letters and allows anyone who wishes to apply to medical school. As you can see, there are some students who applied with below a 3.0 and/or a 25 on the MCAT which are included in the premed statistics. Obviously, if a committee letter was utilized, these specific Duke applicants would have been weeded out to artificially inflate the school’s acceptance rate for premeds. This is clearly not happening.</p>

<p>IMHO, Duke is worth 40K more than USC provided you like it there. It will give you a big lep up if you’re applying to the elite medical schools including Duke’s very own top 10 medical school.</p>