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The Facts

Yale University is a rather large, private institution located in the town of New Haven, Connecticut, and has a combined graduate and undergraduate population of over 22,000 students. The university's School of Medicine, however, is significantly smaller, and is home to about 480 graduate medical students. The average age of enrollment is around 24, and it is fairly rare for any of the students to enter the school directly from their undergraduate education. The school is perhaps best known for its emphasis on public health, as well as for its terrific research programs. Aside from the basic MD degree, the school offers joint degrees in the MD/MPH, the MD/JD, the MD/MDiv, as well as the MD/PhD in various areas of the biomedical sciences.

Admission to Yale University's School of Medicine is quite competitive among the many students who apply; last year, over 3,100 students applied for admission to the school, and approximately 470 of those students were accepted. Eventually however, only about 220 of the admitted students actually enrolled for the coming semester. The admitted students had average MCAT scores of about 11.2 in Biology, 11.0 in Physics, and 10.8 in Verbal, as well as an average undergraduate GPA of about a 3.7. Students are notified of their admissions status on a rolling basis, and are able to take advantage of the school's early application program if they so choose.

The School of Medicine has about 900 faculty members, all of whom come from relatively diverse medical and academic backgrounds. The school also boasts a very manageable student to faculty ratio of about 1:1, and the small classes allow for plenty of discussion and interaction between students and their professors.

Graduates of the university's School of Medicine often go on to be accepted to some of the most prestigious and competitive residency programs in the nation, and most frequently specialize in the areas of primary care, family practice, orthopedic surgery, neurology, psychiatry, as well as pediatrics.

Clinical Programs

Students are required to complete extensive clinical programs including 12 weeks of internal medicine, 12 weeks of general surgery and surgery subspecialties, 8 weeks of pediatrics, 6 weeks of psychiatry, 6 weeks of ob/gyn, 4 weeks of clinical neuroscience, 3 weeks of an integrated clinical clerkship, as well as 4 weeks of a primary care clerkship. Students complete their clinical clerkships at affiliated facilities including Yale New Haven Hospital, West Haven Veterans' Administration Hospital, Bridgeport Hospital, Danbury Hospital, Greenwich Hospital, Griffin Hospital in Derby, Hospital of Saint Raphael, Lawrence and Memorial Hospital, Norwalk Hospital, Saint Mary's in Waterbury, Saint Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport, as well as Waterbury Hospital.

What's Good

"There are a lot of opportunities to get real-world experience. You leave feeling very prepared."

"The faculty here are absolutely incredible, and very very dedicated."

"I really appreciate the attentiveness of the administration in general."

What's Bad

"The school is very very expensive, and financial aid isn't given out freely."

"There are a lot of very competitive students here who are always trying to better one another."

"There is never any on campus graduate housing available."

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