haha based on your anecdotal n=1? regardless, of course there are other factors that affect competitiveness. Average accepted gpa, state residency considerations, size of applicant pool all are important but if you look at a list of all the average mcats and go down the list, it still is a good measure, generally speaking, of competitiveness regardless of which school you specifically ended up having "an easier time with".
Ah ok i see the problem, you don't quite understand the nature of this little academic debate (i guess you came late to the party so its fair). This conversation has nothing to do with a students relative success later in their career, I made zero statements regarding that. A simple statement was made: If one were to break up all medical schools into 3 categories, low, mid, and high tier, using ONLY mcat, then a 31 average accepted mcat would mark the beginning of the "low tier" segment. I eventually conceded that 30 is probably more accurate.
Besides, if you actually talk with some admins, they say very clearly that gpa+mcat trumps all regardless of how "short sighted" you believe that to be...
Yes, agreed, it certainly implies that, which is why I explicitly stated over and over again that I am NOT talking about how good the schools are... see the above simple statement
