How many applicants in a typical college apply for medical school? or percentage?

Question

I am goign to UCLA as an undergraduate as pre-med then going into medical school. I was wandering if there are 40,000 students in UCLA would 4,000 students apply 10%? or do you think it is less like 2,000 students? I just want to know what type of competition I am facing

Answer 1

You do realize that the applicant pool to UCLA med is not strictly from UCLA, right?

"Last year 5,467 applications were received. The Admissions Committee requested supplemental information from approximately 3,000 applicants and interviewed close to 600 students."
http://www.medstudent.ucla.edu/prospective/admissions/?pgID=3

I applied to UCLA last year. I did undergrad at UC Berkeley, grad school at USC, and had a MCAT score of 32. I did NOT get a secondary. You want competition? You got it.

A lot of folks start out "pre-med," but a lot of them change their minds after their first year. More will change theirm inds after that. But on the bright side, almost half of all applicants eventually matriculate. They won't all get their top choices, but they'll go somewhere. Keep that in mind and ask yourself how badly you want it.

Answer 2

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