Written By: Madison Elliott
Considering that I will eventually have to apply and attend medical school, I was curious to know what the top ones are in the United States. I thought that maybe they would be different than what everybody knows are the best undergraduate colleges (mainly the ivy leagues!), but I was wrong, a lot of them are part of this list as well. In the article I found here, it lists the top medical schools in the country for more research based schooling. The ten schools that fall at the top of this list are Harvard University, Stanford University, Johns Hopkins University, University of California - San Francisco, University of Pennsylvania, Washington University, Columbia University, Duke University, Yale University, and New York University. Only three out of the eight Ivy League schools are on this list which may come as a surprise to some, but most of the other five fall shorter below these ten schools.
A lot of people don’t know what makes a top medical school actually a top school, the name of the school is just well known for being a “good” school. Don’t worry, I am also in this same boat, so I am here to tell you why! I decided to look into the number one medical research school, which is Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, to understand why it is known as being such a prestigious school. To start off, their acceptance rate is a whopping 3.7%, which is fairly low. Whether the reason being for this is the large number people that apply here, about 6,113 to be exact, or whether it be that they are just that picky about the graduate students that they accept, that is a hard percentage to beat. On top of that, to really even be considered an option for acceptance into HMS, you must have outstanding MCAT scores. Harvard’s average score for this standardized medical test is about 37 out 45 points. This is one of the highest averages for this quite challenging test in the United States. These are just a couple of the reasons that Harvard Medical School is known for being so top notch. I can’t even imagine what the course load is like once you get to the inside of HMS.
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