3.8 GPA and 35 on MCAT?

[artaxerxes]

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Look, I'm not trying to get into a fight. But we all know people who get in with low stats. There are still many schools that will indicate an average mcat score of 9.X per section. I think that out of people who apply including the crazy ones at 26/27 through the most concentrated area in 29-31 and then the higher scorers...obviously there's more room at the top for the freaks who get 38+ and throw off the average. Does any one know the MEDIAN accepted or matriculated? I'd be curious to see, I bet it's lower than the average.

Median is usually higher, and I believe that is the case for MCAT, the MSAR numbers are medians.

This is usually true for most testing type situations, I remember in college the Median was always higher than the mean because some kids just bombed test and got in the single digits.

To the previous poster:
I didn't claim that the average couldn't rise, in fact it is rising. But I think the non-applicant factor is the far larger factor

 

[surfstarj]

I didn't say they're not on the rise. Frankly, I have no idea what they were in the past, I don't really care either because that has nothing to do with me. I just think anything 32 or up for an average may be slightly artificially inflated in the SDN mythosphere.

 

[surfstarj]

Median is usually higher, and I believe that is the case for MCAT, the MSAR numbers are medians.

This is usually true for most testing type situations, I remember in college the Median was always higher than the mean because some kids just bombed test and got in the single digits.

But unlike kids in the single digits, you have people more distinctly separated at the top. for those applying, the range is about 27-43...if there are a TON of people down towards the low end, and not as many at the high end it might have the opposite effect than a class grade situation, no?

 

[artaxerxes]

actually I just looked at the AAMC website, and they report their scores as averages. But I distinctly remember that MSAR MCAT per school is reported in medians.