Yale SOM Accepts 4.8% of '06 Applicants

The Yale School of Medicine has accepted 4.8 per cent of its applicants for 2006 admission -- 176 applicants from a pool of 3,698. The School plans to enroll a class of approximately 100 students from those admits.

59 per cent of the 104 applicants who were offered admission are women, and roughly 30 per cent represent minorities.

The applicant pool included 151 current students and alumni of Yale. 32 of them were accepted. The head of the health professions advisory program at Yale's Undergraduate Career Services office told the Yale Daily News that a growing number of Yale undergrads are applying to medical school. Nationwide, medical school applications are up by about 4.6 per cent.

Richard Silverman, the SOM's Director of Admissions, noted that almost 60 per cent of the admitted students were not coming directly from an undergraduate program. Some who did apply during their senior year in college had requested a deferals to pursue fellowships or other opportunities. Silverman noted that the SOM now automatically grants a deferral to any accepted student who enters the Teach for America Program.

(Source: "Med School Admits 176, 59% Women," by Steven Siegel - the Yale Daily News, March 31, 2006