Interviewed / ACCEPTED / Matriculated statistics by school?

[dbeast]

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We all know the MSAR has interviewed and matriculated stats, which is okay, but I think the more important value is the number of students accepted. Is there any source that provides this number? Is there a reason it is intentionally not reported or left out of the MSAR? Trying to help out some buddies who are applying now choose schools and this would be super helpful... but I'm thinking it might not exist? Gracias!

 

[RogueUnicorn]

paid version of USNEWS

 

[rHinO1]

Join the US News & World Report site (same site as the rankings, ~$15), it tells you # of accepted, and a couple of other useful things.

Edit: my 3,000th post, and I was beat to the punch by a cracked out pony 😛

 

[Tapepsi]

See I was told though when I asked this that anything that isn't the MSAR shouldn't be trusted with statistics unless the actual school has confirmed the numbers.

 

[flatearth22]

See I was told though when I asked this that anything that isn't the MSAR shouldn't be trusted with statistics unless the actual school has confirmed the numbers.

US News is pretty trustworthy. There's a reason why this information isn't in MSAR (some schools accepted 3-4 times as many students as they have spots for making them look like a backup factory).

Also remember that MSAR has GPA/MCAT median stats for accepted students....not matriculated students while US News has GPA/MCAT mean stats for matriculated students.

Kind of sucks because the most informative would be median stats for matriculated....lol.

 

[Tapepsi]

US News is pretty trustworthy. There's a reason why this information isn't in MSAR (some schools accepted 3-4 times as many students as they have spots for making them look like a backup factory).

Also remember that MSAR has GPA/MCAT median stats for accepted students....not matriculated students while US News has GPA/MCAT mean stats for matriculated students.

Kind of sucks because the most informative would be median stats for matriculated....lol.

Well then that's definitely good to know! 👍 Just wish I would've known that 1 year ago.

 

[rHinO1]

See I was told though when I asked this that anything that isn't the MSAR shouldn't be trusted with statistics unless the actual school has confirmed the numbers.

US news gets their numbers directly from the school.

 

[blizzah]

Kind of sucks because the most informative would be median stats for matriculated....lol.

Why would that be?

When you are applying, you care who the school accepts, not who actually decides to go to the school.

 

[RogueUnicorn]

Why would that be?

median is better for skewed data

 

[flatearth22]

Why would that be?

When you are applying, you care who the school accepts, not who actually decides to go to the school.

Because the stats get inflated for a lot of the non-elite schools because they are accepting people with high GPAs/MCATs who don't end up going there since they get in somewhere better.

 

[blizzah]

Because the stats get inflated for a lot of the non-elite schools because they are accepting people with high GPAs/MCATs who don't end up going there since they get in somewhere better.

Ah I never thought of that.

Now I will have to consider paying for US News 😛

 

[Hafez]

paid version of USNEWS

Edit. no reply needed, certain that is the link below. Thanks!

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/store/medical_school_compass.htm?src=wid

 

[RogueUnicorn]

Because the stats get inflated for a lot of the non-elite schools because they are accepting people with high GPAs/MCATs who don't end up going there since they get in somewhere better.

blizzah has a point, however, in that regardless of how inflated the accepted numbers are, these are the people that are getting accepted into the school. just because the top gets cut off in the matriculant pool doesn't mean you're not competing with them. to me, the most useful part of usnews is figuring out the cut from interview-->accepted.

just to make sure, is this the correct version?

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/store/medical_school_compass.htm?src=wid

yes