Last year, over 3,000 people were accepted into medical and dental schools but did not register... ”This year, the number is likely to increase” - South Korea

During last year's regular university entrance exam recruitment, 3,367 people were accepted into so-called ``medical departments'' such as medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and oriental medicine but did not register.
With the medical school's admission quota increasing this year, it is expected that the number of unregistered applicants due to multiple acceptances will further increase.
This was announced on the 30th by Jongno College on the university entrance examination information portal 'Where to Go?'
This is the result of an analysis of the final additional successful applicants for the 2024 university regular admissions that were released. Last year, the number of applicants who were accepted into medical-related departments but did not register was 136.4% of the total admission quota.
This means that many students were accepted to other universities. Jongno College said, "This figure means that virtually all of the students who were initially accepted dropped out due to being accepted to other universities.
"Even among the additional successful applicants, there was a chain reaction of dropouts due to multiple successful applicants," he explained. Looking at the results by university, 1,711 of the successful applicants at 39 medical schools did not register. This is 1
Of the 37 faculties of pharmacy, 992 (129.8%) did not register, of the 12 faculties of traditional Chinese medicine, 435 (180.5%) did not register, and of the 11 faculties of dentistry, 229 (79.8%) did not register.
By region, 642 students did not register at 23 universities in the Seoul area, 436 at 10 universities in the Gyeonggi and Incheon areas, and 2,289 at 66 universities in regional areas.
Looking at the abandonment rate compared to the recruitment capacity, there was a huge regional disparity, with 72.5% in the Seoul area and 158.4% in the provincial areas.
Lim Seong-ho, president of Jongno College, said, "This year, the most popular medical school enrollment is
The number of students admitted to the medical sciences department in the 2025 academic year will be 2,828, up from 2,477 last year.
This is an increase of 351 people (14.2%) from the previous year. The deadline for registering the first batch of successful applicants for this year's regular recruitment is from the 10th to the 12th of next month, and the announcement of additional successful applicants is scheduled to take place between the 13th and 19th of next month.