AACOM recieved 200,000 primaries?

[yeasureyoubetcha]

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So I attended the NY Multi-COM recruiting event last week just to catch anything that would be worthwhile. If I recall correctly, the representative from AACOM there that gave the presentation mentioned AACOMAS had received over 200K primary applications for the 2016 application cycle already. I believe I recall seeing a statistic that last year that AAMC recieved about 140K, and AACOM recieved 2-3x fewer than this year. Can anyone (adcoms/students) corroborate this or are numbers being fudged somewhere?

Does this make anybody a little nervous?

 

[OrdinaryDO]

So I attended the NY Multi-COM recruiting event last week just to catch anything that would be worthwhile. If I recall correctly, the representative from AACOM there that gave the presentation mentioned AACOMAS had received over 200K primary applications for the 2016 application cycle already. I believe I recall seeing a statistic that last year that AAMC recieved about 140K, and AACOM recieved 2-3x fewer than this year. Can anyone (adcoms/students) corroborate this or are numbers being fudged somewhere?

Does this make anybody a little nervous?

Are you sure they didn's say 20,000?

http://www.aacom.org/docs/default-source/data-and-trends/2015-aacomasappsr.pdf?sfvrsn=6

 

[yeasureyoubetcha]

Are you sure they didn's say 20,000?

http://www.aacom.org/docs/default-source/data-and-trends/2015-aacomasappsr.pdf?sfvrsn=6

I recall last year being many times less than this year. I wasn't sure on the exact factor. I remember being shocked at the number when she said it though.

 

[Dr. Death]

I think the 200,000 might come from designations. For instance I am one person but I applied to 18 schools. Thus 18 applications not 18 applicants. This is supported by the above data which says there were 180,000 designations

 

[OrdinaryDO]

I think the 200,000 might come from designations. For instance I am one person but I applied to 18 schools. Thus 18 applications not 18 applicants. This is supported by the above data which says there were 180,000 designations

I agree with this. I don't think they were talking about unique applicants, only the amount of applications sent to each school. I am not sure how many D.O. schools there are, roughly 30ish, but with 20k applications sent to that many schools (obviously not everyone applies to every schools), then I could see how you could easily achieve 200k total applications.