A small segment of people post on there in the first place, so it is "exaggerated" even if everyone who is the type who would post were completely honest. If only the people proud of their numbers post, the stats will seem higher than average.
1) a very small % of total applicants
2) probably those who are 'confident" about posting their stats b/c they're so stellar. not saying those who didnt post aren't confident, or did bad. it's just natural to showcase your stats if you did better.
A while back I correlated # of students saying they had an acceptance on MDApps compared to the total # accepted by a school (as reported by USNews) -- it was pretty constantly between 6 and 10% for all schools I checked. Like others have said, those are probably some of the strongest students anyway, so worry not.
A small segment of people post on there in the first place, so it is "exaggerated" even if everyone who is the type who would post were completely honest. If only the people proud of their numbers post, the stats will seem higher than average.
I'd imagine it would completely negate the entire rationale for the existance of mdapps if people lied on it. The entire point it was created was so premeds could compare stats and ec's to people that were/weren't successful.
Well, there are periodic fakes that turn up on there, but they tend to be more the variety of the dude with a claimed 2.5/20 who gets into all the top 10 schools.
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