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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child will be going to UVA. Got rejected from Ivies. What are we missing by not going to Ivies for pre-med. Outside of pre-med, do Ivies and other top schools create employers and other schools create employees[/quote]

Colleges ranked by percentage of undergraduates who go on to attend medical school:

2 Harvard
3 Yale
5 Brown
13 Penn
16 Princeton
23 Cornell
46 Columbia
84 UVA

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/adam.hearn4686/viz/TopFeederstoMedicalSchool/TopFeeders-Med5[/quote]

If the denominator is the class size, [b]this will penalize the large schools.[/b] Should be based on how many students declare themselves as premed and of these how many get into med school [/quote]

I think most people care about whether their kid will have better odds.  To calculate odds, you need to adjust for school size.[/quote]

Only if you sincerely believe that 100% of undergrads at every school are premed. [/quote]

+1. This comes up all the time on this forum but it is faulty reasoning. Large universities have lots of professional schools where the kids were never likely or planning to do career X or grad school Y. If you don’t adjust for the different structure between universities then a per capita measure doesn’t tell you anything useful.[/quote]

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