admissions statistics
"ADMISSION STATISTICS FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T DO STATISTICS AND STUFF. AND ALSO WHY YOU SHOULD APPLY TO A LOT OF PROGRAMS AND STUFF.
This here is going to be a very important bit of information, so pull up a chair because grandpa Andy is gonna tell you something real good.
We are all told that the national acceptance rate into medical school is something around 8%. This is a fucking terrifying number, but if you break it down, this number is pretty skewed for a number a reasons. So before you shit a brick here we go:
In 2012, 19,517 (and this number will gradually increase in the future) as applicants were accepted to medical school out of 636,309 applications which is like 3% or so. Now you go oh shit Andy motherfucker I thought you had good news.
Yes we are getting there so before you shit a brick pay attention.
The number of actual applicants (so persons) was 45,266, because everyone submits usually more than one application. This means an acceptance rate of about 43%.
Then the acceptance rate is probably higher than 43% for several reasons: First, some students are accepted to multiple medical schools and, naturally, must chose a single program to attend. Secondly, some students choose not to attend medical school although they were offered admissions (I know it's hard to believe but some people do decline matriculation altogether).
And, there are a number of ways to increase your probability of getting into a program, which a lot of people actually don't do, the least of which is applying EVERYFUCKWHERE. I have met a lot of people that just applied to just UCSF Stanford and UCLA. My constructive feedback to them is motherfucker what the fuck are you doing.
We can look at it mathematically. Let's say you want at least a 90% chance of getting into a program.
P (getting into at least one med school) = 0.95
= 1 - P (not getting into a single goddamn school) 0.95
Thus, P (not getting into a single goddamn school) = 0.05
Assume that the probability of getting into any single one medical school is 8%, the national average. ^
Using a binomial distribution because I am smart and shit like that, nCr*p^r *(1-p)^(n-r)
we see that n = number of schools you need to apply to
p = 0.08
r = 0
n comes out to about 36.
Now when I told folks I applied to 40 programs, motherfuckers thought I full of shit. Those motherfuckers thought wrong. I WAS FULL OF MATH MOTHERFUCKERS.
There are 141 programs in the United States. It is easy to apply to 40 programs.
TL, DR: Apply everywhere and you will become a doctor because you had Andy do math for you and shit.
Also, a link where a guy basically posted the same statistics I did and shit.
http://www.doctorshadow.com/the-real-medical-school-acceptance-rate/
"
-Andy
This here is going to be a very important bit of information, so pull up a chair because grandpa Andy is gonna tell you something real good.
We are all told that the national acceptance rate into medical school is something around 8%. This is a fucking terrifying number, but if you break it down, this number is pretty skewed for a number a reasons. So before you shit a brick here we go:
In 2012, 19,517 (and this number will gradually increase in the future) as applicants were accepted to medical school out of 636,309 applications which is like 3% or so. Now you go oh shit Andy motherfucker I thought you had good news.
Yes we are getting there so before you shit a brick pay attention.
The number of actual applicants (so persons) was 45,266, because everyone submits usually more than one application. This means an acceptance rate of about 43%.
Then the acceptance rate is probably higher than 43% for several reasons: First, some students are accepted to multiple medical schools and, naturally, must chose a single program to attend. Secondly, some students choose not to attend medical school although they were offered admissions (I know it's hard to believe but some people do decline matriculation altogether).
And, there are a number of ways to increase your probability of getting into a program, which a lot of people actually don't do, the least of which is applying EVERYFUCKWHERE. I have met a lot of people that just applied to just UCSF Stanford and UCLA. My constructive feedback to them is motherfucker what the fuck are you doing.
We can look at it mathematically. Let's say you want at least a 90% chance of getting into a program.
P (getting into at least one med school) = 0.95
= 1 - P (not getting into a single goddamn school) 0.95
Thus, P (not getting into a single goddamn school) = 0.05
Assume that the probability of getting into any single one medical school is 8%, the national average. ^
Using a binomial distribution because I am smart and shit like that, nCr*p^r *(1-p)^(n-r)
we see that n = number of schools you need to apply to
p = 0.08
r = 0
n comes out to about 36.
Now when I told folks I applied to 40 programs, motherfuckers thought I full of shit. Those motherfuckers thought wrong. I WAS FULL OF MATH MOTHERFUCKERS.
There are 141 programs in the United States. It is easy to apply to 40 programs.
TL, DR: Apply everywhere and you will become a doctor because you had Andy do math for you and shit.
Also, a link where a guy basically posted the same statistics I did and shit.
http://www.doctorshadow.com/the-real-medical-school-acceptance-rate/
"
-Andy