3. Stanford University (CA)
Acceptance rate: 2.5%
At number 3 on our list, we have Stanford University (CA). Now being the third hardest medical school to get into, Stanford University School of Medicine has a comparatively “high” rate of acceptance at 2.5%. If we look at last year’s statistics we see that of 7,512 applicants only a handful got accepted. One more quite interesting statistic we would like to share with you is that for the class of 2016, about 65% of students who applied for residency got admitted to their first choice.