Swarthmore College is known for having an overall medical school acceptance rate well above the national average of 41 percent — 48 percent higher, according to the Health Science Office — yet the school is now offering an alternative route to those
The college’s approach to a pre-medical track for undergraduates is clear from a statement on the Health Sciences Office’s page of the website. “Swarthmore students are not “premeds” or “prevets” in the conventional sense,” it reads. There is no premed major,