Williams for Pre-med？

Aardvark
Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:02:22 +0000

One should be VERY careful when looking at Med School acceptance rates. Many schools do not allow you to apply (see above: won’t write rec’s unless you meet their criteria). Other schools have no such requirement so anybody who has met the prerequisites (which isn’t hard to do) can apply regardless of their chance of getting in. A much better question would be how many Pre-med students get into med school from each institution? If ther are 50 pre-med students at Williams (or any school) and only the top 8 are allowed to apply, then 8/50 who wanted to get in did, not 8/8.

Again, a much better assessment in the pre-med program would be to look at the total, not the final number of students who wanted to apply.