These schools received an average of 12,194 applications for the fall 2015 entering class. The Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine topped the list with 15,475 applicants. The U.S. News Short List, separate from our overall rankings, is a regular series that magnifies individual data points in hopes of providing students and parents a way to find which undergraduate or graduate programs excel or have room to grow in specific areas. Be sure to explore The Short List: College, The Short List: Grad School and The Short List: Online Programs to find data that matter to you in your college or grad school search. Between prepping for the MCAT, going on interviews and submitting the required materials, applying to medical school can be challenging – especially when there are thousands of other applicants. Among the 116 ranked medical schools that submitted these data to U.S. News in an annual survey, the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine in Pennsylvania received the most applications – 15,475 – for the fall 2015 entering class. The medical school swapped spots with Drexel University, which topped last year's list and had 15,282 applicants for fall 2015. Most of the schools on this year's list also appeared on last year's, though a few – including Brown University in Rhode Island and Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine in New York – are new to the top 10. The average among the 10 medical schools with the largest applicant pools was 12,194 – significantly higher than the average among all schools that submitted these data. At 5,693 applicants, the overall average was less than half that at the top 10. Four of the 10 medical schools on the list are located in Pennsylvania, and none of those schools fell among the top 20 in either the research or primary care rankings. Three of the schools on the list – George Washington University and Georgetown University, both in Washington, D.C., and Brown University – were also among the medical schools with the lowest admissions rates for fall 2015. Below is a list of the 10 medical schools that received the most applications for fall 2015. Unranked schools, which did not meet certain criteria required by U.S. News to be numerically ranked, were not considered for this report. Source
