Admissions Outlook
In 2023, 22,981 applicants were accepted to allopathic (MD) medical school out of 52,577 who applied, for an overall acceptance rate of 43%. However, the acceptance rate at any given school is considerably lower. At Albany Medical College, for example, 1% of the total number of applicants matriculated (143 out of 13,258); at Drexel, 2% (304 out of 15,847). The outlook for Swarthmore premedical students is much better than the overall acceptance rate of 44%. Our acceptance rate in 2023 was 84% — substantially higher than the national average — a record that few other colleges can claim.
