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Some time ago, some of you probably remember me offering to excerpt and post info from the most recent MSAR, which I did indeed do per request (and ended up doing 80something schools before stopping by request of the mod squad here).
Because not all of the statistics I can pull from there can be found on school sites and such, I edited out much of the original content of that thread. But what I was thinking about was compiling a spreadsheet that would contain LizzyM scores for all US allopathic schools as well as some of the DO programs. (A huge thank you to Sketchlazy for doing much of the DO work and original compiling on the spreadsheet I have now).
If you don't know what a LizzyM score is, the Cliffs Notes version is that it is a rough way to gauge your competitiveness to any given school and is equal to:
LizzyM (personal) = GPA*10 + (MCAT overall)
LizzyM (school) = GPA*10 + (MCAT overall) - 1
Naturally, because the school numbers will be from an assortment of sources (median scores in the MSAR, public stats, etc.), this will not be 100% consistent, but it WILL be a bit more respectful of the AAMC-published text since it will not be drawing entirely on that work (nor can the LizzyM formula be reliably reverse-engineered due to the nature of scoring). It is also a bit of an undertaking since I still have several schools I would need to add beyond the huge chunk of them that Sketchlazy already did.
So, the question is: how much of an interest is there in such a thing?
Because not all of the statistics I can pull from there can be found on school sites and such, I edited out much of the original content of that thread. But what I was thinking about was compiling a spreadsheet that would contain LizzyM scores for all US allopathic schools as well as some of the DO programs. (A huge thank you to Sketchlazy for doing much of the DO work and original compiling on the spreadsheet I have now).
If you don't know what a LizzyM score is, the Cliffs Notes version is that it is a rough way to gauge your competitiveness to any given school and is equal to:
LizzyM (personal) = GPA*10 + (MCAT overall)
LizzyM (school) = GPA*10 + (MCAT overall) - 1
Naturally, because the school numbers will be from an assortment of sources (median scores in the MSAR, public stats, etc.), this will not be 100% consistent, but it WILL be a bit more respectful of the AAMC-published text since it will not be drawing entirely on that work (nor can the LizzyM formula be reliably reverse-engineered due to the nature of scoring). It is also a bit of an undertaking since I still have several schools I would need to add beyond the huge chunk of them that Sketchlazy already did.
So, the question is: how much of an interest is there in such a thing?
