Neat Stats on Optometry School Admissions

[coloradosky]

Hey Everyone! I got curious about admission stats so I plugged the data found on http://www.opted.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3344 into excel and crunched some numbers. Here are the results based on the numbers on the 2010 entering class:

Ranking based on # of applications received by each school:
(# of applications received by each optometry school, high to low)

"ILLINOIS
Illinois College of
Optometry
" 1254
"PENNSYLVANIA
PA College of Opt. at
Salus University
" 1159
"FLORIDA
Nova Southeastern
University
" 1034
"MASSACHUSETTS New England College of Optometry
" 889
"TENNESSEE Southern College of Optometry
" 845
"NEW YORK
State University of New
York
" 756
"CALIFORNIA Western University of Health Sciences
" 697
"ARIZONA
Midwestern Univ., AZ College of Optometry
" 662
"TEXAS
Rosenberg School of
Optometry
" 652
"TEXAS
University of Houston
" 650
"CALIFORNIA Southern California College of Optometry
" 634
"OHIO
The Ohio State University
" 589
"INDIANA
Indiana University
" 556
"MISSOURI
Univ. of Missouri-St. Louis
" 504
"MICHIGAN Michigan College of Optometry
" 489
"OREGON
Pacific University
" 484
"ALABAMA
University of Alabama at
Birmingham
" 341
"CALIFORNIA University of California, Berkeley
" 274
"PUERTO RICO
Inter American University
" 263
"OKLAHOMA Northeastern State University
" 127

Ranking based on Acceptance Rate:
(The Percent of Applicants Accepted by the schools, from low to high)
"MICHIGAN Michigan College of Optometry
" 13.91%
"ARIZONA
Midwestern Univ., AZ College of Optometry
" 15.86%
"TEXAS
Rosenberg School of
Optometry
" 17.18%
"NEW YORK
State University of New
York
" 17.72%
"FLORIDA
Nova Southeastern
University
" 17.89%
"OHIO
The Ohio State University
" 18.85%
"ALABAMA
University of Alabama at
Birmingham
" 19.65%
"MISSOURI
Univ. of Missouri-St. Louis
" 20.44%
"TEXAS
University of Houston
" 20.77%
"CALIFORNIA Western University of Health Sciences
" 22.24%
"OREGON
Pacific University
" 22.73%
"INDIANA
Indiana University
" 27.16%
"CALIFORNIA Southern California College of Optometry
" 27.44%
"MASSACHUSETTS New England College of Optometry
" 28.46%
"ILLINOIS
Illinois College of
Optometry
" 28.63%
"TENNESSEE Southern College of Optometry
" 28.88%
"PENNSYLVANIA
PA College of Opt. at
Salus University
" 29.59%
"CALIFORNIA University of California, Berkeley
" 29.93%
"OKLAHOMA Northeastern State University
" 31.50%
"PUERTO RICO
Inter American University
" 51.33%

Ranking Based on Matriculation Rate:
(% of accepted students actually decide attend that school, high to low)
"CALIFORNIA University of California, Berkeley
" 82.93%
"OREGON
Pacific University
" 81.82%
"TEXAS
University of Houston
" 77.04%
"OKLAHOMA Northeastern State University
" 70.00%
"ALABAMA
University of Alabama at
Birmingham
" 67.16%
"CALIFORNIA Southern California College of Optometry
" 58.62%
"OHIO
The Ohio State University
" 57.66%
"TEXAS
Rosenberg School of
Optometry
" 57.14%
"NEW YORK
State University of New
York
" 56.72%
"CALIFORNIA Western University of Health Sciences
" 55.48%
"MICHIGAN Michigan College of Optometry
" 54.41%
"INDIANA
Indiana University
" 52.98%
"FLORIDA
Nova Southeastern
University
" 52.97%
"TENNESSEE Southern College of Optometry
" 48.77%
"ARIZONA
Midwestern Univ., AZ College of Optometry
" 48.57%
"PENNSYLVANIA
PA College of Opt. at
Salus University
" 46.94%
"MASSACHUSETTS New England College of Optometry
" 46.25%
"ILLINOIS
Illinois College of
Optometry
" 44.85%
"MISSOURI
Univ. of Missouri-St. Louis
" 38.83%
"PUERTO RICO
Inter American University
" 35.56%

Hope this helps some of you to decide which schools to apply to and attend

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[cjensen20]

thank you very much...
very informative

would you happen to have graduation rate
and boards pass rate as well?

 

[Hoffy]

And how did you "crunch" these numbers exactly.....just curious.

 

[SIUE optkid]

And how did you "crunch" these numbers exactly.....just curious.

Accepted/applied and class size/accepted. thats how i would do it at least. Nice job colorado sky, its very interesting.

 

[nc2tarheels]

And how did you "crunch" these numbers exactly.....just curious.

it's not rocket science.

 

[cjensen20]

And how did you "crunch" these numbers exactly.....just curious.

this information is available to all as the "profile of incoming class"...the original poster just took it to the next step and did the math

it would be more impressive to see these trends over time

thank you btw

 

[coloradosky]

Yea, I just downloaded the pdfs of stats from opted and converted it to excel http://www.pdftoexcelonline.com/

Then used excel to manipulate the numbers. I don't know where old data can be found, otherwise I wouldn't mind seeing the trends

cjensen20: where can I find the pass rate and graduation rate information? is there a centralized location where I can get reliable stats?

 

[coloradosky]

another interesting piece of data:

Last year, there were 2503 applicants applying to average of 5.13 optometry schools according to ASCO. The total matriculated students equals 1639 optometry students for the class of 2014 across all school. If every accepted applicant end up attending an optometry school, then that means 65.48% of applicants to optometry schools get at least one acceptance. If there were some accepted students who end up not pursuing optometry education at all, then the acceptance rate would be even higher. Even though the number of optometry schools seemed unsettlingly small to me at first, now I realize the demand isn't big enough to warrant more schools, and the acceptance rate is actually quite high. I wonder what the acceptance rate is for other health professional programs like dental, physical therapy, pharmacy, and medical schools, etc.

 

[nc2tarheels]

another interesting piece of data:

Last year, there were 2503 applicants applying to average of 5.13 optometry schools according to ASCO. The total matriculated students equals 1639 optometry students for the class of 2014 across all school. If every accepted applicant end up attending an optometry school, then that means 65.48% of applicants to optometry schools gets at least one acceptance. If there were some accepted students who end up not pursuing optometry education at all, then the acceptance rate would be even higher. Even though the number of optometry schools seemed unsettlingly small to me at first, now I realize the demand isn't big enough to warrant more schools, and the acceptance rate is actually quite high. I wonder what the acceptance rate is for other health professional programs like dental, physical therapy, pharmacy, and medical schools, etc.

How do you factor in people that were accepted to multiple schools?

 

[cjensen20]

Yea, I just downloaded the pdfs of stats from opted and converted it to excel http://www.pdftoexcelonline.com/

Then used excel to manipulate the numbers. I don't know where old data can be found, otherwise I wouldn't mind seeing the trends

cjensen20: where can I find the pass rate and graduation rate information? is there a centralized location where I can get reliable stats?

thats a question I dont have an answer to...other than calling each school and asking...ive been curious for a long time, but could never find out this info...thought maybe you had it

 

[coloradosky]

How do you factor in people that were accepted to multiple schools?

I used total # of matriculated students instead of accepted students. I figure each applicant will only matriculate to one school as that is the only way it makes sense. I divided the # matriculated, meaning # students entering an optometry school last year, by the total number of individual applicants to optometry schools last year.

 

[FutureEyeDr]

Just bumping this thread because I thought it was very informative.

 

[Blondiechick919]

I think it's interesting how ICO had the most overall applications but was third from the bottom when it comes to matriculation. I'm not applying there butni wonder why this is.

 

[netmag]

Could just mean that a lot of people deem it good enough to warrant applying to as a backup, but not as many people consider it as their top choice.

I think it's interesting how ICO had the most overall applications but was third from the bottom when it comes to matriculation. I'm not applying there butni wonder why this is.