Compiled by Prof. Stephen George , Chair, Health Professions Committee, and Dean Carolyn Bassett, Health Professions Advisor

The table shows how favorable each U.S. medical school is to state residents vs. out-of-state residents. Use this table as you work with Dean Bassett to formulate your list of schools you wish to apply to.   Data come from the 2006-07 Medical School Admission Requirements book. For example, look at the first entry, for the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The table shows that 74% of applicants were from outside Alabama, but only 11% of those who entered that school were from outside Alabama. In other words, 26% of applicants were Alabama residents, but 89% of matriculants were Alabama residents. The ratio of non-resident matriculants to applicants, i.e. 11/74 or 0.14, is the "favorability" of this school to non-residents. A value of 0.00 means the school has no non-residents; a value of 1.00 means the school was equally favorable to non-residents and state residents.   Also realize that the 11% of non-residents at the U. of Alabama are not mostly random applicants from around the country. Some may have attended the U. of Alabama as undergraduates; others may have a physician parent who went there; still others were probably MD/PhD students for whom state residency is less important in admissions.   Bottom line: it doesn't make much sense to apply to the U. of Alabama unless you are a state resident or have some other specific reason to apply.   In contrast, schools like Stanford (0.92) and Yale (0.95), were about equally favorable to non-state residents and to state residents. Of course these are high-selectivity schools, and one usually can't apply only to schools like Stanford and Yale. In choosing schools outside your home state, include ones that have both (1) reasonable selectivity for you, and (2) reasonable favorability to non-state residents! To be sure it's clear, note that a value of 1.00 doesnt mean there are equal numbers of in-state and out-of-state students at that school. Rather, it means that in-state and out-of-state applicants to that school had an equal probability of matriculating there.

State School % Non- resident applicants % Non- resident matriculants Favorability to non- state residents AL U Alabama -Birmingham 74% 11% 0.14   South Alabama - Mobile 55% 14% 0.26 AZ U of Arizona 24% 0% 0.00 AR U of Arkansas 53% 4% 0.08 CA Loma Linda 47% 54% 1.14   Stanford 61% 56% 0.92   UC Davis 19% 4% 0.23   UC Irvine 12% 0% 0.00   UCLA 35% 14% 0.39   UC San Diego 33% 8% 0.25   UC San Francisco 48% 19% 0.40   USC (Keck) 37% 24% 0.65 CO U of Colorado 76% 22% 0.29 CT Yale 96% 91% 0.95   UConn 85% 21% 0.25 DC George Washington 99% 98% 0.98   Georgetown 99% 99% 0.99   Howard 99% 95% 0.95 FL Miami (Miller) 63% 23% 0.37   FL State - Tallahassee 8% 0% 0.00   U of Florida - Gainsville 43% 0% 0.00   South Florida - Tampa 28% 1% 0.03 GA Emory 89% 67% 0.75   Morehouse 83% 61% 0.74   U of Georgia 41% 2% 0.04   Mercer 0% 0% 0.00 HI U of Hawaii 86% 28% 0.32 IL ChicagoMed/Franklin 87% 72% 0.82   Loyola (Stritch) 82% 59% 0.72   Northwestern 85% 77% 0.90   U Chicago (Pritzker) 86% 71% 0.82   U of Illinois - Chicago 67% 21% 0.31   Southern Illinois 14% 0% 0.00   Rush 68% 12% 0.17 IN Indiana U 73% 11% 0.15 IA U of Iowa 86% 33% 0.39 KS U of Kansas 69% 16% 0.23 KY U of Kentucky 60% 18% 0.30   U of Louisville 73% 19% 0.27 LA Tulane 92% 72% 0.79   LSU - New Orleans 16% 4% 0.22   LSU - Shreveport 30% 2% 0.06 MD Johns Hopkins 94% 91% 0.96 Uniformed Services 94% 94% 1.00 U of Maryland 79% 24% 0.30 MA Boston U 94% 76% 0.81 Harvard 93% 91% 0.98 Tufts 93% 70% 0.76 UMass 13% 2% 0.15 MI U of Michigan 84% 51% 0.62 Michigan State 67% 27% 0.40 Wayne State 60% 10% 0.17 MN Mayo 90% 74% 0.82 U of Minn. - Minneapolis 63% 18% 0.29 MI U of Mississippi 0% 0% 0.00 MO Saint Louis U 94% 78% 0.83 Wash. U - St.Louis 96% 93% 0.97 U of Missouri - Columbia 58% 11% 0.19 U of Missouri - Kan. City 52% 26% 0.51 NE Creighton 95% 85% 0.89 U of Nebraska 73% 19% 0.26 NV U of Nevada 81% 19% 0.24 NH Dartmouth 99% 94% 0.95 NJ UMDNJ - Newark 73% 14% 0.19 UMDNJ - RW Johnson 63% 12% 0.19 NM U of New Mexico 65% 5% 0.08 NY Albany Med. Coll. 78% 62% 0.79 Albert Einstein 76% 62% 0.82 Columbia 76% 77% 1.00 Cornell (Weill) 79% 66% 0.84 Mount Sinai 76% 54% 0.71 NY Medical College 82% 69% 0.84 New York University 75% 51% 0.68 Rochester 75% 67% 0.90 SUNY Buffalo 34% 9% 0.26 SUNY Downstate - Brooklyn 41% 18% 0.43 SUNY Upstate - Syracuse 38% 17% 0.45 SUNY Stony Brook 30% 4% 0.13 NC Duke 93% 80% 0.85 Wake Forest 89% 60% 0.67 U of North Carolina 73% 15% 0.20 East Carolina (Brody) 0% 0% 0.00 ND U of North Dakota 49% 32% 0.66 OH Case Western 82% 69% 0.84 Cincinnati 64% 29% 0.45 Med. Coll. of Ohio - Toledo 65% 26% 0.40 Northeastern Ohio 35% 8% 0.21 Ohio State 71% 31% 0.43 Wright State - Dayton 66% 9% 0.14 OK U of Oklahoma 61% 2% 0.03 OR U of Oregon 88% 57% 0.65 PA Jefferson 87% 57% 0.65 Drexel 89% 67% 0.76 Pittsburgh 84% 69% 0.82 Penn.State 84% 52% 0.61 UPenn 88% 76% 0.86 Temple 87% 51% 0.59 RI Brown 97% 87% 0.89 SC Medical U of SC 69% 7% 0.10 U of S. Carolina - Columbia 70% 13% 0.19 SD U of South Dakota 75% 8% 0.11 TN Meharry 94% 86% 0.91 Vanderbilt 93% 83% 0.89 East Tennessee (Quillen) 56% 10% 0.18 U of Tennessee 60% 3% 0.04 TX Baylor 70% 20% 0.28 Texas A&M 10% 5% 0.49 Texas Tech 9% 5% 0.57 U. TX Southwestern Dallas 23% 15% 0.66 U. Texas - Galveston 8% 6% 0.75 U. Texas- Houston 15% 6% 0.40 U. Texas- San Antonio 14% 3% 0.24 UT U of Utah 55% 26% 0.47 VT U of Vermont 98% 68% 0.69 VA Eastern Virginia - Norfolk 78% 32% 0.41 U of Virginia 80% 34% 0.43 Virginia Commonwealth U 82% 43% 0.53 WA U of Washington - Seattle 69% 6% 0.09 WV Marshall U 75% 17% 0.23 West Virginia U 81% 37% 0.45 WI Med.C. Wisconsin 89% 62% 0.70 U of Wisconsin - Madison 73% 20% 0.27

Revised 1/15/07

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