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Originally Posted by blueash
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. |
Thank you blueash
I too was confused abt the stats for people applying to medical school.
If you use the 52,000 number for 17,000 slots. That’s an acceptance rate of over 32%.
In actuality the number for acceptance is closer to 4%
Some exact numbers are: My son went to George Washington university med school. 15.216 applications for 181 slots. Acceptance rate of 1.09%