Is the medical school rejection rate inflated?

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Im saying this because medical schools mcat and gpa are inflated since someone with a 4.0/40 would get multiple acceptance and his/her number would raise the average for all school he/she was accepted to even if he/she doesn't attend. My question is, they say 55-60 percent of applicant are rejected is this number this high because rejected people are counted for every school they are rejected from?

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its probably the percentage of people who didn't get a seat anywhere....so they would be counted once.
This. The AAMC knows how to do basic statistical analysis.

What some people often mix up is acceptance rate and matriculation rate.
 
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This. The AAMC knows how to do basic statistical analysis.

What some people often mix up is acceptance rate and matriculation rate.

How should i view those two rates?
 
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It is true that >50% of applicants don't get admission to any medical school.

At some schools, there are 100-150 seats and >5,000 applications meaning that 2-3% of the applicants end up being students at that particular school.

However, keep in mind that many schools make offers to 2-3 times as many applicants as there are seats. This is because some of the top applicants get into more than one school but can attend only one school.

The schools tend to provide average (median or mean) GPA and MCAT for its newest class of students. These students are also called matriculants.

AMCAS publishes the average and 10th and 90th percentiles for accepted applicants. This tends to be higher than the average for matriculants because just as the OP observed, an applicant with a 40/4.0 who is admitted to 5 dfferent schools gets counted in all 5 as an admitted applicant but will be counted at only one school in terms of matriculants.
 
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The two numbers you are referring to are from completely different sets of data. Median accepted MCAT/GPA is indeed higher than matriculated MCAT/GPA due to the reasons LizzyM stated. The accepted vs rejected stats are published by the AAMC and is binary in that if you have 0 acceptances you are considered rejected, but if you have one or more, you are considered accepted. AAMC does not 'double count' the rejected or accepted students, as it is simply a census of the completed applications.
 
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