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[quote=Anonymous]Look at the medical school admission rates for undergrads at each school

Michigan: The acceptance rate for Honors graduates to MD granting programs hovers around 80% every year. This compares to an overall acceptance rate of 56% for U-M graduates as a whole compared to a national acceptance rate of about 42%. https://lsa.umich.edu/honors/current-students/academic-information/honors-pre-med-faqs.html#:~:text=The%20acceptance%20rate%20for%20Honors,acceptance%20rate%20of%20about%2042%25.

Wisconsin: Nationally, the acceptance rate into MD programs specifically is about 45%. At UW, it’s about 55%. While this is better, it still sounds scary when you realize that about half the students who apply don’t get in. This led us to look at the data more carefully. We wanted to know “who is not getting in?” We found that the total number of applicants applying to medical school includes those with low GPAs and low MCAT scores who were most likely not competitive overall for programs. We then looked at the percentage of applicants with GPAs of 3.5 and higher and 80th-percentile-and-higher MCAT scores. We found that these UW-Madison students and alumni have gotten into medical schools at a rate of 85%. This is a stunning number for a school that does not screen applicants through a pre-medical committee.
https://prehealth.wisc.edu/prospective-students-2/

(My grandfather rowed for Wisconsin in the early 1900's so I vote for Wisconsin)[/quote]

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