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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
Forty years ago, there were 120,000 applications for 17,000 medical school seats. Five years ago there were only 25,000 applications.
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Sometimes what you read on TOTV is opinion. Sometime people claim to be experts and are so wrong, so wrong.
And here was a statement that is in the so wrong category and easily checked.
See the graph below from
https://www.aamc.org/media/9581/download?attachment
Forty years ago, 1983 there were about 36000 applicants for US allopathic medical schools. About 25000 were first time attempting to gain admission and about 11000 were trying again after previously failing to gain admission.
Five years ago, 2018, there were about 52000 applicants for US allopathic schools, 39000 were first time and 13000 repeats.
Please, readers, do not repeat the false claim that the number of people applying to medical school is down from 120000 to 25000. It is blatantly, totally , completely untrue.