University of Pittsburgh, ranked number eight, was the hardest U.S. university on the list to get into in 2022, with a 1.84 percent acceptance rate, according to data from the university’s admissions office pages.
Acceptance rates for the top orthopedic medical schools:
1. The University of California (San Francisco): 3.32 percent
2. Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore): 3.6 percent
3. University of Pennsylvania Perelman (Philadelphia): 4 percent
4. University of Washington (Seattle): 4.1 percent
5. University of California Los Angeles: 2.3 percent
6. University of Michigan Ann Arbor: 5.63 percent
7. Stanford University (Redwood, Calif.): 2.3 percent
8. University of Pittsburgh: 1.84 percent
9. University of Chicago: 4.65 percent
10. Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science (Rochester, Minn.): 31 percent
11. All India Institute of Medical Sciences (Delhi, India): 1 percent
12. Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia): 4.57 percent
13. Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (Dublin): Estimated 55 percent*
*The university does not publicly report official data
14. University College London Medical School (England): 63 percent
15. Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (Chicago): 7.09 percent
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