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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would agree, especially with the last piece. Some schools fast track their own, plus others have the BS/MD programs too.

The happiness part makes sense, but I do think the where matters also. UMD and Vanderbilt are very different.

If it helps, here are reports:

Vanderbilt - https://www.vanderbilt.edu/hpao/documents/2023%20Annual%20Report.pdf

[b]Note that they, nor really any school, can precisely tell you how many students started out as pre-med as first-year students. So 78% accept rate is impressive but consider how many kids dropped out along the way.[/b] Also note the top major is Medicine, Health and Society, which allows more customization to student strengths. Biology is lower on the list of majors, which is different than some other schools.

And here is Maryland:

https://prehealth.umd.edu/prospective-students/facts-figures

Also this report might be helpful:
https://www.aamc.org/media/9636/download

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This.  The acceptance rate is not out of the kids who started as "pre-med" freshman year.  It's out of the number of kids who complete all the pre-recs and apply to medical school.  This number (the ones who actually apply) is probably 10% of the kids who enter college saying they are pre-med.  The pre-med classes (at ANY university) are weed-out classes, aren't easy and if you get a B in any of them, you're pretty much out of the running for medical school, at least on a traditional path (some of these kids who get a B but desperately want to go to medical school will repeat a class or do an entire post-bac program or apply to a Caribbean med school, etc).  The large majority of the pre-meds with a B (or more than one) will shift courses, never apply to medical school and are not counted in the university's medical school admission numbers.  [/quote]

This depends on the school. Premeds with some Bs but mostly As get into med school all the time from my kid’s T10. The average mcat score there is high. As long as they have the average gpa (3.7) and a good mcat score they get in to US med schools. Even some 3.5s get in as long as top mcat, which most of the students get easily, as most are excellent test takers. 3.9 is only needed if they are chasing a big name med school. [/quote]

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