How schools really pick accepted students

[Amy B]

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Hi all,

I talked to my dear friend who will be a MSII this year at EVMS. They just got their yearbooks from last year. She told me about a photo in it and I had to laugh. We always talked about how school pick applicants. I figured they tape all our applications to the wall, throw darts and pick the one the darts hit. This can also work for how AMCAS decides who they are going to process.

Anyway there is a photo of the dean. He is blindfolded and reaching into a basket marked applications. The caption reads something lik this...... "now you know how we really pick people to accept to EVMS."

So mystery solved for all of you who wanted to know how they pick people for med school.

 

[PianoGirl04]

Hehe...that's pretty clever! No wonder applications seem like such a crapshoot!

 

[PMED99]

No, its more scientific than that actually. They grid off a cow field into sections, each representing a different person. Wherever a cow pattie lands is where a acceptance goes. To get on the waitlist...Well lets not get into that one.

But, thats how the southern medical schools do it. It has been proven to work, and is more effective than the whole interview thing.

😛

 

[TTSD]

If I were on the admissions committee I'd have an entering class completely made up of females who offered their bodies..

 

[umass rower]

Originally posted by PMED99
No, its more scientific than that actually. They grid off a cow field into sections, each representing a different person. Wherever a cow pattie lands is where a acceptance goes. To get on the waitlist...Well lets not get into that one.

But, thats how the southern medical schools do it. It has been proven to work, and is more effective than the whole interview thing.

😛

Interestingly enough, Amherst has cow chip bingo, where letters and numbers are determined in that same way. Being from just outside Boston, I thought it was a joke until I saw it actually happening.

 

[Allygator89]

Originally posted by PMED99
No, its more scientific than that actually. They grid off a cow field into sections, each representing a different person. Wherever a cow pattie lands is where a acceptance goes. To get on the waitlist...Well lets not get into that one.

But, thats how the southern medical schools do it. It has been proven to work, and is more effective than the whole interview thing.

😛

I go to school in the south. You couldn't pay me to move back up north, and we aren't as backwards as most people think. Cut the south a break. 😛

 

[h2cooper]

C'mon ya'll!! A club I was in in high school thought about doing this as a fundraiser. We had the cow, we had the field, we just didn't have a way to make the grid!!!! (We also didn't want to clean it up.) It's called Cow Drop Bingo.

Yea for the South!!!!!!!