Rona Aydin is the founder of Oriel Admissions, a Princeton-based college admissions consulting firm advising families nationwide on elite university admissions strategy. An Oxford University graduate, Rona leads a deeply experienced team whose distinctive 360 approach treats every part of the application - academics, testing, activities, essays, and interviews - as one connected strategy.
Duke pre-med runs through the Office of Health Professions Advising, which supports more than 1,800 students and alumni a year and reports acceptance outcomes well above the national average. Here is how advising, access, and positioning work.
Harvard pre-med runs through house-based premedical committees of Harvard Medical School students, residents, and alumni, who write the Harvard College committee letter each August. Here is how advising, outcomes, and positioning work.
MD vs DO: both produce fully licensed physicians training in the same ACGME residency system. DO schools accepted about 63% of applicants versus roughly 43% for MD in the 2025 cycle. Here is what the difference actually means for a pre-med family.
WashU reports that 85% of students who worked with its PreHealth advisors were admitted to medical school as first-time applicants - one of the strongest published outcomes anywhere. Here is how WashU pre-med advising, access, and positioning work.
Johns Hopkins pre-med runs through the Office of Pre-Professional Programs and Advising, which writes a formal committee letter, and roughly 90% of Hopkins applicants take at least one bridge year. Here is how advising, outcomes, and positioning work.
Medical school acceptance rates at the most selective programs run from 0.9% to 2.5%. Only NYU Grossman, Northwestern Feinberg, and UCSF publish official rates; the rest publish partial funnels or nothing. Verified twelve-school table with GPA and MCAT medians inside.
The average MCAT score for medical school matriculants at the twelve most selective programs runs from 513 at Georgetown to 523 at NYU Grossman, with GPA medians of 3.89 to 3.98 - against national averages near a 3.8 GPA and an MCAT in the low 510s per AAMC reported data.
Stanford Medicine matriculated 90 students from 9,793 verified applications in the most recent reported cycle, a 0.9% ratio - the lowest in the elite tier - with a class fixed at 90 for years, reported medians near a 3.9 GPA and an MCAT of 518 to 520, and most students taking five years.
Medical school requirements combine a core science sequence (one year each of biology, general chemistry, organic chemistry, and physics with labs, plus biochemistry, writing, and statistics), the MCAT, sustained clinical experience, research, and 3 to 5 letters. AAMC reported matriculant averages: 3.81 GPA, MCAT near 512.
The Northwestern medical school acceptance rate is 1.6% for the 2025 entering class: 8,610 applications, 704 interview invitations, and 140 seats at Feinberg, with a 3.93 median GPA and a 521 median MCAT per official school data.
Weill Cornell does not publish an official acceptance rate. Official admissions FAQ figures show more than 9,000 applications for 106 seats and 700 to 750 interviews each cycle, a matriculant ratio near 1.2% with reported medians of a 3.9 GPA and a 518 MCAT.
The NYU medical school acceptance rate is 2.5%: 8,271 applicants, 821 interviewed, 208 accepted, and 106 matriculated in the most recent NYU Grossman By the Numbers profile, with a 3.98 median GPA, a 523 median MCAT, and full tuition covered for every enrolled MD student.
The UCSF medical school acceptance rate is 1.6% for fall 2025: 10,300 applications, 584 interviews, and 161 matriculants per official UCSF admissions data, with a 5.7% interview rate - the tightest screen among top medical schools - and 71% of the class California residents.
Medical school secondary essays arrive within weeks of primary verification, and the working standard is returning each within two weeks. Prompt types repeat across schools and cycles - why us, diversity, challenge, optional - while volume varies sharply: Duke runs up to nine prompts.
BS/DO programs give high school seniors a reserved medical school seat at one of 48 osteopathic colleges. DO seniors matched at a record 93.2% in the 2026 NRMP Match. Compare NYITCOM, LECOM, Rowan-Virtua, and Nova Southeastern direct entry paths.
The AMC 10 runs November 5 and 13, 2026, and for the first time a fixed score of 100 qualifies for the AIME, replacing floating cutoffs of 94.5 to 105. Here is the format, the scoring math, the recognition tiers, and what AMC 10 results actually signal in elite admissions.