Eighty-nine percent of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College students who worked with the college’s Medical Studies Committee in applying to health care-related graduate programs for fall 2007 matriculation were accepted.

According to a report issued this week by the committee, 32 of 36 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ applicants to medical (allopathic) or osteopathic schools, or 89 percent, were accepted. Nationally, about 45 percent of applicants to allopathic schools were accepted.

A national acceptance rate for osteopathic schools wasn’t available. However, in the 2007-08 academic year, 4,243 of 11,459 osteopathic school applicants, or 37 percent, were enrolled (as opposed to accepted; not all accepted applicants will enroll).

Fifteen out of 17 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ applicants to other health-related programs, such as dental, nursing, nurse practitioner or veterinary medicine, were accepted, or 88 percent.

All told, 47 out of 53 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ applicants who worked with the committee were accepted into graduate programs in the health professions.

ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students are typically accepted into graduate programs in the health professions at a rate higher than the national average. This speaks to both the quality of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students and the way ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ prepares students for life after graduation.

During the 2006-07 academic year, the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Medical Studies Committee had more than 300 counseling appointments lasting at least 30 minutes with students and alumni interested in health careers. The college’s medical studies program helps students satisfy medical school requirements by, for instance, guiding students with their course selections and helping set up job-shadowing or internship opportunities.

Nearly 91 percent of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students who worked with the committee and applied to allopathic schools were accepted for fall 2007. Sixty-three percent of all ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students who applied to allopathic programs were accepted, whether or not they worked with the committee.

Nationally, in 2007, 18,858 of 42,315 applicants (44.6 percent) to allopathic medical schools were accepted, according to information from the American Association of Medical Colleges.

Lee Abrahamsen, chair of the Medical Studies Committee and an associate professor of biology, notes that students at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and elsewhere show an increasing interest in graduate programs in public health. “That reflects the growing perception of health as a global issue that has to be understood from many perspectives,” she says.

In response, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ has developed a four-course public health concentration as part of its new general education curriculum.

“Emerging infections, pollution, antibiotic resistance, who can or should be immunized — even laws that require car seats for children — are all public health issues,” notes. “So public health is multidisciplinary, and including it in the curriculum allows our students to use what they learn from courses, travel, community engagement and other experiences to approach important issues that affect everybody.”

During the last two years, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ applicants to allopathic and osteopathic programs have been 15 percent neuroscience majors, 24 percent biology majors, 29 percent biochemistry majors, 10 percent psychology and 22 percent other majors including art, philosophy, chemistry, English and religion.

Ninety-six percent of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College seniors and alumni applying to graduate programs in the health professions for fall 2005 matriculation were accepted.

Ninety-one percent of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ applicants were accepted into medical or osteopathic schools, vs. a national average of around 49 percent, according to a report issued on Oct. 10 by the college’s Medical Studies Committee.

ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students are typically accepted into graduate programs in law and the health professions at a rate higher than the national average. This speaks to both the quality of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students and the way ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ prepares students for life after graduation.

The college’s medical studies program helps students satisfy medical school requirements by, for instance, guiding students with their course selection and helping set up job-shadowing or internship opportunities.

Of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ seniors or alumni who applied to 2005 post-graduate programs at allopathic or osteopathic medical school, 20 of 22 applicants were accepted, or 90.9 percent. For applicants to other health-care programs, such as dentistry, nursing, pharmacology or veterinary medicine, all 23 of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students who applied were accepted this year.

Nationally, in 2004, 17,662 of 35,735 applicants to allopathic medical schools were accepted, or just over 49 percent, according to information from the American Association of Medical Colleges.

Equivalent information for osteopathic schools wasn’t available. However, for the 2002-03 academic year, according to the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, 3,079 of 6,324 applicants were enrolled in osteopathic schools, or nearly 49 percent. (Note that these applicants were actually enrolled, as opposed to accepted; not all accepted applicants will enroll.)

According to the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ MSC report, the grade point average for students matriculating at medical and osteopathic schools this fall was 3.58.

Eighty-three percent of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College seniors and alumni applying to graduate programs in the health professions were accepted for matriculation in fall 2004.

Seventy-five percent of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ applicants were accepted into medical or osteopathic schools, vs. a national average of around 49 percent.

ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students are typically accepted into graduate programs in law and the health professions at a rate higher than the national average. This speaks to both the quality of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students and the preparation ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ offers for life after graduation.

The college’s medical studies program helps students satisfy medical school requirements by, for instance, guiding students with their course selection and helping set up job-shadowing or internship opportunities.

The quality of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ education is also key to students’ success in these graduate programs. “ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ absolutely prepared me,” says Jessica Walls, a 2003 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ graduate who is now studying at Dartmouth Medical School and contemplating a career in pediatric oncology.

Likening her academic career to a marathon, Walls adds: “If ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ hadn’t pushed me to work hard, and develop strategies that work best for my learning needs, I don’t think I ever would have broken the 10-mile mark.”

Of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ seniors or alumni who applied to 2004 post-graduate programs at allopathic or osteopathic medical school, 15 of 20 applicants were accepted, or 75 percent. For applicants to other health-care programs, such as dentistry, nursing, pharmacology or veterinary medicine, 14 of the 15 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students who applied were accepted last year, or 93 percent.

Nationally, in 2004, 17,662 of 35,735 applicants to allopathic medical schools were accepted, or just over 49 percent, according to information from the American Association of Medical Colleges.

Equivalent information for osteopathic schools wasn’t available. However, for the 2002-03 academic year, according to the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, 3,079 of 6,324 applicants were enrolled in osteopathic schools, or nearly 49 percent. (Note that these applicants were actually enrolled, as opposed to accepted; not all accepted applicants will enroll.)

In law, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ applicants last year attained higher Law School Admission Test scores than their peers nationally, with an average score of 157.3 for ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ applicants vs. the national average of 152.5. Moreover, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students and alumni were accepted to the top tier of law schools including Harvard, the University of Chicago, New York University and the University of Michigan.

“The rigorous undergraduate curriculum at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ helped prepare me for the intellectual demands of law school,” says Michelle Wong, a member of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ class of 1998 and a J.D. candidate at the Northwestern University School of Law. “I learned how to read text critically and defend my ideas — skills that are critical to success in law school.”