In 2020, 23,105 applicants were accepted to allopathic (MD) medical school out of 53,030 who applied, for an overall acceptance rate of 44%.
However, the acceptance rate at any given school is considerably lower. At Albany Medical College, for example, 1% of the total number of applicants matriculated (143 out of 11,344); at Drexel, 2% (267 out of 13,482).
The outlook for Swarthmore premedical students is much better than the overall acceptance rate of 44%.