In the coming months, pre-med undergraduates at colleges across the country will be preparing to apply for medical school. The top tier students will likely apply to some of the most prestigious medical schools, such as Harvard, Johns Hopkins or Michigan.
But where are most of the medical school applications coming from? StartClass set out to find which undergraduate schools produce the most medical school applications.
The data comes from the Association of American Medical Colleges. The AAMC notes that the data is for informational purposes only and should not be interpreted as an assessment of an institution’s pre-medical educational or advisory programs.
Another caveat for this list is that schools with larger overall student bodies will obviously have more medical school applicants than smaller schools. Though the list is not a ranking of the best premedical schools, it is helpful to know which schools have the most aspiring doctors.
#30. Harvard University
- 2014 medical school applicants: 323
- Percentage of undergrads studying biological or biomedical sciences: 13.9 percent
#29. University of Pennsylvania
- 2014 medical school applicants: 339
- Percentage of undergrads studying biological or biomedical sciences: 9 percent
#28. New York University
- 2014 medical school applicants: 339
- Percentage of undergrads studying biological or biomedical sciences: 2.7 percent
#27. Michigan State University
- 2014 medical school applicants: 343
- Percentage of undergrads studying biological or biomedical sciences: 10.9 percent
#26. University of Notre Dame
- 2014 medical school applicants: 344
- Percentage of undergrads studying biological or biomedical sciences: 6.2 percent
#25. University of Miami
- 2014 medical school applicants: 348
- Percentage of undergrads studying biological or biomedical sciences: 14.3 percent
#24. University of Arizona
- 2014 medical school applicants: 353
- Percentage of undergrads studying biological or biomedical sciences: 9.8 percent
#23. Washington University in St. Louis
- 2014 medical school applicants: 354
- Percentage of undergrads studying biological or biomedical sciences: 10.2 percent
#22. University of Maryland-College Park
- 2014 medical school applicants: 365
- Percentage of undergrads studying biological or biomedical sciences: 9.4 percent
#21. University of Virginia
- 2014 medical school applicants: 368
- Percentage of undergrads studying biological or biomedical sciences: 6.8 percent
#20. Rutgers University
- 2014 medical school applicants: 385
- Percentage of undergrads studying biological or biomedical sciences: 9.6 percent
#19. Emory University
- 2014 medical school applicants: 386
- Percentage of undergrads studying biological or biomedical sciences: 14.8 percent
#18. Duke University
- 2014 medical school applicants: 387
- Percentage of undergrads studying biological or biomedical sciences: 14.1 percent
#17. Johns Hopkins University
- 2014 medical school applicants: 390
- Percentage of undergrads studying biological or biomedical sciences: 15.5 percent
#16. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- 2014 medical school applicants: 394
- Percentage of undergrads studying biological or biomedical sciences: 9.7 percent
#15. Texas A&M University
- 2014 medical school applicants: 411
- Percentage of undergrads studying biological or biomedical sciences: 9.7 percent
#14. University of Washington
- 2014 medical school applicants: 417
- Percentage of undergrads studying biological or biomedical sciences: 12.9 percent
#13. UC Davis
- 2014 medical school applicants: 427
- Percentage of undergrads studying biological or biomedical sciences: 20 percent
#12. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 2014 medical school applicants: 427
- Percentage of undergrads studying biological or biomedical sciences: 8.1 percent
#11. Brigham Young University
- 2014 medical school applicants: 450
- Percentage of undergrads studying biological or biomedical sciences: 11.2 percent
#10. University of Wisconsin-Madison
- 2014 medical school applicants: 456
- Percentage of undergrads studying biological or biomedical sciences: 14.2 percent
#9. The Ohio State University
- 2014 medical school applicants: 473
- Percentage of undergrads studying biological or biomedical sciences: 6.6 percent
#8. University of Georgia
- 2014 medical school applicants: 481
- Percentage of undergrads studying biological or biomedical sciences: 8.6 percent
#7. Cornell University
- 2014 medical school applicants: 509
- Percentage of undergrads studying biological or biomedical sciences: 13 percent
#6. UC San Diego
- 2014 medical school applicants: 631
- Percentage of undergrads studying biological or biomedical sciences: 19.5 percent
#5. University of Texas at Austin
- 2014 medical school applicants: 733
- Percentage of undergrads studying biological or biomedical sciences: 7.9 percent
#4. University of Florida
- 2014 medical school applicants: 760
- Percentage of undergrads studying biological or biomedical sciences: 8.9 percent
#3. UC Berkeley
- 2014 medical school applicants: 769
- Percentage of undergrads studying biological or biomedical sciences: 11.7 percent
#2. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- 2014 medical school applicants: 825
- Percentage of undergrads studying biological or biomedical sciences: 9.8 percent
#1. UCLA
- 2014 medical school applicants: 919
- Percentage of undergrads studying biological or biomedical sciences: 15.6 percent
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