Admissions Outlook
In the 2025 application cycle, 22,665 applicants were accepted to allopathic (MD) medical school out of 53,260 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, less than 1% of the total number of applicants matriculated (141 out of 14,147); at Drexel, 2% (305 out of 16,647). The outlook for Swarthmore premedical students is much better than the overall acceptance rate of 45%. Our acceptance rate in the 2025 application cycle was an unusually high 96% — substantially higher than the national average — a record that few other colleges can claim.
