Is Vassar a good place to start a medical career?
Vassar students are very successful when applying to medical schools; not only are the science programs well regarded and rigorous, but students are well advised. A pre-med advisor is assigned to ensure that you are taking the right preparatory classes, tests, etc. Many of our science students also have the opportunity to do graduate level research with professors on campus through the URSI (Undergraduate Research Summer Institute) program. That makes them particularly desirable to medical schools. The acceptance rate into medical school is significantly higher than the national average. Roughly 70-90% of the Vassar students who apply are accepted by a medical school. Incidentally, some schools beef up their rate-of-acceptance statistics by limiting the number of applicants they support in a given year. Vassar does not limit the number of applicants in a given year.
