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Has anybody heard anything about whether the ratings from this website are basically reliable?
http://www.studentdoc.com/medfind.html
http://www.studentdoc.com/medfind.html
likeasurgeon said:Has anybody heard anything about whether the ratings from this website are basically reliable?
http://www.studentdoc.com/medfind.html
likeasurgeon said:Has anybody heard anything about whether the ratings from this website are basically reliable?
http://www.studentdoc.com/medfind.html
geno2568 said:well, i think the advantage of this site is that it relates mcats to gpa on the same scale, something that the msar doesnt. The problem is, it does it poorly. For people with skewed numbers like myself, this oucld be useful (if it was any accurate).
Huh. I tried putting in my numbers, and interestingly, it was pretty accurate. Several schools that rejected me came out to be red, while most of the ones that accepted me came out to be blue. I guess if you have no GPA, it might be a pretty accurate site as far as telling you which schools will ding you heavily for that.likeasurgeon said:Has anybody heard anything about whether the ratings from this website are basically reliable?
http://www.studentdoc.com/medfind.html
jackieMD2007 said:Everything on the internet is true.
I think a magic 8-ball is going to give you the same "reliable" results...
...will I get into Pritzker...shake...shake...shake..."maybe". Damn. I was really hoping for "yes." Good thing this 8-ball experiment is repeatable!
MiesVanDerMom said:i used the following methods tonight at an arcade: "if i can get the ball in the 50 circle (skee ball) I will get into Pitt" (scored a 50 three times in a row!)
put a quarter in a fortune teller machine (like in Big) and she told me "Blue is your lucky color". not sure if that is good news or bad news...
SWEATING IT OUT!!! YEAHHH!!!!UMP said:+.3 points for every .1 GPA point...
+.8 points for every 1 MCAT point...
This makes a 4.0 30 MCAT about as competitive as a 33 3.2 or 36 2.4
But for some reason I think one of these is a shoe-in for a med school acceptance, one will be sweating it out, and one will get rejected pre-interview almost everywhere
likeasurgeon said:Has anybody heard anything about whether the ratings from this website are basically reliable?
http://www.studentdoc.com/medfind.html
Good point... but that comes to my next question:Law2Doc said:Lots of people who are in med school now would not be if they placed much stake in programs like this. Adcoms consider the whole application, not one dimensionally like a computer program. If schools just took the best numerical stats, there would be much higher average stats at the top 10 schools and a much greater range from top to bottom of the rankings than there is. Schools simply don't work this way. Apply broadly and ignore the computers.
Compass said:These numbers are also compared to the average. Below average people get in too.
eerapido said:Right on. A friend of mine was accepted into Case Western (aka. Top 25 USNews Medical School for research) with a 3.1 science GPA. Overall about 3.3...
Admissions committees look at everything.
Buji said:How good was his MCAT score though?
UMP said:ok, so I put in my hopeful stats (practice MCAT scores:36) with my GPA of 3.1, and behold: almost half the schools are in green, and everything else is in blue (except for stanford and WUSTL).... so if I pull this 36 am I actually the very competitive candidate (for low-tier in-state schools) that it says I am?
Law2Doc said:No. As all of the above posts suggest, there is really no science to this. It is meaningless.The raw numbers tell you nothing -- you still know little about what kind of nonnumeric credentials those with a 3.1 who actually get in have. (I would suggest it takes more than just a good MCAT, but you can never know from this kind of program.) People do not get into med school on numerical stats alone. No schools admit people strictly based on some formulaic combination of GPA and MCAT (although a small handfull of schools reportedly reject folks below a certain combined score as a form of early screen). And wishing for a 36 does not make it so.
jackieMD2007 said:Everything on the internet is true.
I think a magic 8-ball is going to give you the same "reliable" results...
...will I get into Pritzker...shake...shake...shake..."maybe". Damn. I was really hoping for "yes." Good thing this 8-ball experiment is repeatable!
xaelia said:The HTML is a broken shell, and the sorting isn't totally working yet, but I threw together this little toy from a chunk of the mdapplicants.com data....
http://mdpotential.com/
If it doesn't work for you, don't expect it to work until I'm done with my surgery sub-I.
Theoretically, sorting the columns by interview and acceptance percentages should imply competitiveness.deuist said:Interesting idea. When you finish your sub-I, could you have the site rank the schools that applicants would be most competitive for?
xaelia said:Theoretically, sorting the columns by interview and acceptance percentages should imply competitiveness.