less competitive getting into medical schools???

[nikefan13]

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According to the statistics on this site (http://www.louisville.edu/medschool/admissions/profile.htm#profile2), the mean total gpa and the BCPM gpa are the same for the entering class of 2003 and 2004 but the MCAT scores dropped a bit(class of 2004). Is it me or the competition is getting less..

 

[Uegis]

According to the statistics on this site (http://www.louisville.edu/medschool/admissions/profile.htm#profile2), the mean total gpa and the BCPM gpa are the same for the entering class of 2003 and 2004 but the MCAT scores dropped a bit(class of 2004). Is it me or the competition is getting less..

Those are the statistics of only one school. And the average dropped 0.2 points for the sections. Dunno if its reflective of all matriculants though. Not sure if it is less competitive, but if it is, I'm all for it!

 

[sunUCB]

According to the statistics on this site (http://www.louisville.edu/medschool/admissions/profile.htm#profile2), the mean total gpa and the BCPM gpa are the same for the entering class of 2003 and 2004 but the MCAT scores dropped a bit(class of 2004). Is it me or the competition is getting less..

1. That's only for the University of Louisville. Last time I checked, there were one or two other medical schools in the United States.

2. Numbers don't mean anything. People with lower numbers get in to medical school because there is a lot more to an applicant than a couple of numbers.

 

[Blake]

1. That's only for the University of Louisville. Last time I checked, there were one or two other medical schools in the United States.

I heard it was the only med school

 

[sunUCB]

haha....well i applied to 30 schools, and none of them were the U of Louisville....it would be a shame if none of the ones I applied to even exist 😀

I heard it was the only med school

 

[Uegis]

Louisville takes mostly in-state, which will explain why the GPA's are a bit lower. Not saying people in Kentucky are dumb, but that those residents with weaker stats are picked over non-residents with higher stats.

 

[bigbassinbob]

There's no way that the applicant pool could be getting less competitive. The total number of applicants went up last year from the year before, and so did the number of MCAT test takers. Since the MCAT is graded on a curve, this means that the number of people with higher scores will increase. For example, 20% of the MCAT test takers score a 30 or higher. If the number of test takers increases, so will the number of people with a 30 or higher. This sucks, but it nevertheless is still the way it is. I imagine the number of med school applicants will continue to increase for quite some time since the economy is so bad.

 

[constructor]

yeah, that's what it really boils down to... when the economy is bad, more people apply to medical schools and it becomes more competitive. we're in a period in which the number of applications is steadily increasing and i think it's probably going to keep increasing over the next several years. the same sort of thing happened in 1995-1998, just before the dot com explosion. when people started getting rich by making websites to do pointless things, people who were interested in medicine decided to go into IT. now that the financial security of those jobs is looking bleak, we're having more people applying to medical schools. i expect the number of applications to stay high over the next few decades, except during short periods like what happened with the dot coms getting rich quick. that whole fever has subsided compeletely now, so the apps are back up to the numbers we had in the mid-late 90's.

 

[AsianDoc816]

yeah, that's what it really boils down to... when the economy is bad, more people apply to medical schools and it becomes more competitive. we're in a period in which the number of applications is steadily increasing and i think it's probably going to keep increasing over the next several years. the same sort of thing happened in 1995-1998, just before the dot com explosion. when people started getting rich by making websites to do pointless things, people who were interested in medicine decided to go into IT. now that the financial security of those jobs is looking bleak, we're having more people applying to medical schools. i expect the number of applications to stay high over the next few decades, except during short periods like what happened with the dot coms getting rich quick. that whole fever has subsided compeletely now, so the apps are back up to the numbers we had in the mid-late 90's.

This should encourage us to go out and vote for a president who will give the economy a boost....

 

[constructor]

you don't even have to go that far... you just have avoid voting for a president who ****s up the economy, passes legislation to favor his ridiculous special interests, or pockets huge amounts of money shamelessly. if the candidate isn't pulling all this ****, he's got my vote. i think i've figured out who i'm going to vote for in this election

 

[velo]

the same sort of thing happened in 1995-1998, just before the dot com explosion. when people started getting rich by making websites to do pointless things, people who were interested in medicine decided to go into IT. now that the financial security of those jobs is looking bleak, we're having more people applying to medical schools.

And interestingly enough there are a lot of non-trad applicants whose background is in IT....hmmmm....

 

[constructor]

indeed, the most there has ever been...