Low Stats with a lotta Apps; What Gives?

[Kardio]

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What does the average applicant look like for schools with "lower-stats" but ungodly amounts of applicants?

I know that they tend to be OOS friendly, but these numbers are wild!

For example:
Tulane: 12,000 for 190 seats (63 apps:seat)
Rosalind Franklin: 12,500 for 190 seats (66 apps: seat)
Drexel: 14,000 for 250 seats (56 apps: seat)
Loyola: 15,000 for 180 seats (83 apps: seat)

 

[deleted952058]

This may be a generalization, but it appears that these schools interview students with high-quality and high-quantity ECs, which may be in the form of long-term clinical experience, volunteer experience, or even years of work experience. What type of clinical work do you do? Your 5,000 hours of clinical exposure stands out (in a good way).

 

[Dr panda]

I hope that's the case.

I worked as an EMT - the hours are divided between a couple different places that I worked at (>1000 hrs each) at different points in my career. Each job got me exposure to specific patient populations (non-emergent, emergent, city, suburban and underserved).

It seems that adcoms don't really like EMTs since for them it is just a "glorified bus driver"
I think these schools get many apps simply because there are a lot more people with low stats, therefore, more applicants to low tire schools. Search the forum for lovely ECs examples, Goro has a guide about it.

 

[efle]

Most of the applicant pool is average or close to average. People with a 508/3.65 aren't going to waste their time and money applying to a bunch of "top 20" programs, and nobody should be wasting their time applying to public schools in other states that take few OOS people.

But midlevel private schools like Tulane, Rosy Frank, Drexel, George Washington, Georgetown, New York Medical College, Rush, Jefferson, Temple, Albany, etc? Everybody with stats around average is going to throw these same schools onto their list. The result is 10-15k applications per school.

Better hope your narrative/ECs stand out if you want an interview! But just looking at the numbers, the vast majority of people with average stats who get into med school are getting into their state schools, not to these places. There's just nowhere near enough seats at these midlevel privates to absorb much of the giant pool that applies to them.