Just curious - how come we don't have graphs like at Lawschoolnumbers?

[Penner]

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Check this graph out:
http://duke.lawschoolnumbers.com/stats

You can pretty much draw a line and know with a high degree of certainty whether you're going to get waitlisted or accepted based on your numbers. Of course, med schools care slightly more about the non-numerical portions of applicants than law schools do, but graphs like these would be damn nice for choosing a list of within reach schools.

Yes, mdapplicants has fewer data (11,000 vs 143,000), but it would still be nice. Did the creators of mdapps decide the graphs weren't worth it or just have not had the time to make it?

 

[TooMuchResearch]

Check this graph out:
http://duke.lawschoolnumbers.com/stats

You can pretty much draw a line and know with a high degree of certainty whether you're going to get waitlisted or accepted based on your numbers. Of course, med schools care slightly more about the non-numerical portions of applicants than law schools do, but graphs like these would be damn nice for choosing a list of within reach schools.

Yes, mdapplicants has fewer data (11,000 vs 143,000), but it would still be nice. Did the creators of mdapps decide the graphs weren't worth it or just have not had the time to make it?

You just answered your question. Also, those plots are worthless* without trend lines (at minimum). There's a school selector spreadsheet floating around here somewhere that allows users to input numbers to get a feel for school range.

*worthless to me...you go ahead and do something with it 😉

 

[addo]

Well, we got the "legendary med school spreadsheet application" it takes numbers and ECs into account, and tells you the chances of getting in to every med school.

 

[Penner]

You just answered your question. Also, those plots are worthless* without trend lines (at minimum). There's a school selector spreadsheet floating around here somewhere that allows users to input numbers to get a feel for school range.

*worthless to me...you go ahead and do something with it 😉

For law schools? Really? You can literally just look at the graph and guess with probably a 70% confidence as to whether you'll get in or not.

 

[drizzt3117]

For law schools you really do know pretty much exactly where you're going to get into based on gpa and (more impt) LSAT. Therefore you can apply to far fewer schools. I applied to law school concurrently with med school, applied to three schools and got into all of them. Most ppl I know had similar experiences. It seems more predictable than applying to either ug or med school.

 

[rbnsafsadgf]

We have that stuff, but it's not school specific.

from: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=727395

 

[schrizto]

Spreadsheets are way more useful for law school admissions than for med school admissions. Even many schools in the ABA guide (the MSAR equivalent for law schools) include a spreadsheet of likelihood of admission.

There are way more contributing factors for applying to medical school that make a spreadsheet not as useful. Some examples include the fact that med schools place a lot of emphasis on the interview and early application, law schools in general don't interview and while applying earlier helps for law school, it's not as big of a factor as for med school.

 

[eablackwell]

The almighty hippy-dot chart says I have a 40% chance of acceptance... Everything else I've read on this forum basically says with my stats I'm almost in the "Why bother?" category. I am not sure I believe the psychedelic goodness on this thread, lol.