What is UW Oshkosh's success rate for applicants to Health Professions schools?

If your question is about Nursing, Med Tech, or Athletic Training, please contact their program administrators.

If your question is about "pre-med", "pre-dent", and so on, the answer is: No one knows.  That's NOT a "cop-out" answer; and here's why:

First, the application process is confidential and entirely at the student's initiative.  Applicants do not require the university's "permission" to apply, nor are they required to report to anyone on campus that they are applying.  Just because transcripts are ordered for inclusion in an application, does not mean that their purpose is revealed to university administrators. 

Second, recommendation letters from our campus are written by individuals, not by committees, so there is no centralized mechanism for recording the number of applicants each year by tracking rec letters. While it's true that some of our higher-profile pre-Health advisors may know most of a given year's applicants, by the same token, no one person ever knows all of them!  Applicants are not required to inform advisors or letter-writers of their positive or negative admission decisions. 

Third, the number of pre-Health Professions students at UW Oshkosh is small compared to some of our sister campuses.  While a UW Madison type of campus might count dozens (hundreds?) of pre-meds alone each year, our numbers are far, far smaller.  I sometimes think of ours as a "boutique" pre-Health professions program, by comparison. 

Some years, UW Oshkosh may have only 3 or 4 students who apply to med school, or optometry school, or what have you.  Other years, we may have "twice that number", but that still translates to only 6 or 8!  With such a small sample size, statistics or "success rates" become so skewed by just one person's admission decision as to be meaningless.

In sum, we don't report "statistics" on a small sample of confidential information.

However, if you want to see the real names of a "representative sample" of our successful students, click here!