Williams for Pre-med？

interesteddad
Sun, 31 Dec 2006 03:49:58 +0000

Intersteddad; where did you find the median age of 24?



Swarthmore’s extensive handbook for med school admissions. They have access to the official national stats from the med school placement service, including average MCAT’s etc. It’s easy to spot the delayed med school applicants from Swarthmore’s list of post-grad plans. Research assistants at NIH. AIDS volunteers in Africa. And, so forth.

Just look at the numbers from Swarthmore. 7 graduating seniors versus 36 alums applying. And, this is a major med school feeder. 38 Swatties accepted to med school last year. That’s 11% of an entire average graduating class.

http://www.swarthmore.edu/Admin/health_sciences/guide_for_applying_to_med.html

The handbook has some fantastic no-BS guidance, virtually all of which would apply to Williams or Amherst students as well.

I believe the site posted earlier in this thread is a self-reporting site, with data posted by students. It makes more sense that such a site would tilt towards college students applying directly to med school, much in the way that a self-reporting site (like this one and others) isn’t a terribly representative sample of college admissions.