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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If they have 100 percent med school admission, it’s because they refuse to support some applicants, weeding out at the front end. Better to go to a school that will support any student seeking to pursue the pathway. [/quote]

Do we really want doctors from schools where "any student" can make it through the program?[/quote]

The med school admission will weed out the unqualified. [/quote]

+1 
 The point is that schools that do not gatekeep(restrict one from applying to med school even with lower GPA or mcat) are going to have lower med admissions rates than schools or programs within schools where you have to meet an internal GPA/mcat in order to be allowed to apply--thereby artificially inflating the med school acceptance rate from that undergrad. I do not know if The Alabama program gatekeeps or not but 100% is not believable. Top undergrads (Ivies, WashU, Chicago, Stanford) do not gatekeep and have not for the past decade or more. They do advise people to take 1-2+ gap years if the stats do not look likely, which is smart because it raises the chances a lot for those students who listen,  but they do not ban them. These top-most non-gatekept schools report overall med admissions of 88-93% at the highest, none 100.  The med admissions process does the weeding out not the undergrad premed office. 
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