If by elite, you mean with admission rates under 30%, then yes.
If by elite, you mean the US New Top 10 research schools, then no.
Einstein has 2.2.% acceptance rate? Source, please.
According to US News (which gets this data from MSAR), the 10 med school with lowest acceptances rates (all under 4%) are:
Mayo, Stanford, FSU, Wake, GW, Georgetown, UC-Davis, UCLA, Brown and UCSD.
Acceptance rate isn’t necessarily a measure of elitism/prestige–it’s a measure of how big of a mismatch there is between the # of applicants vs # of available seats. The mismatch is largely due to a) being located in a desirable area and b) being a school without a strong instate preference with mid-range GPA/MCAT stats. (
@gallentjill Back in the bad old days, the "old boys network" w/r/t residency placement was alive and well and it determined where you went for residency and often what specialty you matched into. I have a friend in a competitive specialty who tells me he interviewed at only THREE residency programs, all interviews his specialty mentor personally arranged by making phone calls to his buddies. My friend was told weeks in advance of official match results what program he would be matching to.
The new double blind match algorithm has eliminated this kind of cronyism. It has, however, not done away with all of it. Applicants first have to <em>get</em> an interview with a residency program in order to be ranked. Residency PD tend to select applicants from programs they are familiar with--esp. through programmatic or personal experiences with previous grads.