Anonymous wrote:You might be able to draw inferences from this analysis:

From Pre-Med to MD: Understanding the Pathways to Medical School - College Transitions https://share.google/UM86cb1s7upQ5i82T

Thanks for the useful data!

-- OP

Georgia Tech is low.

You might be able to draw inferences from this analysis:

From Pre-Med to MD: Understanding the Pathways to Medical School - College Transitions https://share.google/UM86cb1s7upQ5i82T

Everywhere I looked, schools are boasting their high percentages of pre-meds -- often above 70% -- accepted to med school, when the national average is merely 40–45%. For example, 81% for Penn, 70–80% for Duke, 80–85% for JHU, 76–85% for WashU, and 70% for Northwestern. These numbers are amazing, but not surprising, since those schools are supposedly strong at pre-med.

Since not everyone can be above average, there must be schools whose percentages are significantly below 40–45%. In fact, for every school that's above average, there ought to be, roughly speaking, one that's below. But who are they?? I don't think I've seen any school admitting on their website to being below average (of course they won't), and neither ChatGPT nor Gemini have a clue.

Can one safely assume that most non-t50 state schools -- such as Alabama, Oklahoma, Oregon State, Nebraska, SUNY Buffalo -- have average or below average percentages? Or does one have to go further down to directional and/or for-profit schools to find them?

The answer to this question may be useful when choosing between an expensive t30 private with a high pre-med-to-med acceptance rate, and a cheaper-due-to-merit, non-t50 state school with a perhaps-not-so-low pre-med-to-med acceptance rate.

Any thoughts?