A comparison of applicants and applications to Canadian medical and dental schools, 1965-66

A collation and analysis of the applications and applicants to Canadian medical and dental schools for 1965-66 showed that the ratio of applications to the number of places available was 5.3 to 1 for medical schools, and 4.7 to 1 for dental schools.Sixty-seven per cent of the Canadians who applied to a dental school did not find a place, in contrast to the 47% of those who applied to a medical school and were not successful.One hundred and forty-one applicants (4.3% of the total applicants to medical schools and 10.9% of total applicants to dental schools) had applied to both medical and dental schools. Almost 50% of these "dual applicants" were not accepted by either a medical or dental school. Thirty-five applicants were accepted at both dental and medical schools and all but three of these elected to enrol at a medical school.