mdapplicants.com ????

[Rugger81]

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Sorry if this has been discussed before, but I am really concerned.

What gives with mdapplicants.com? Looking over this website it almost seems like everyone should just give up now! I know there are only about 1500 profiles and there are many more people who apply each year, but what the hell!?!? The profiles on that website make sound like you need a 4.0 gpa, a 39T on the mcat, and a resume that includes curing sickle-cell anemia and/or restructuring the health care system of an African nation, JUST TO GET ACCEPTED to a good med school.

Does anyone have any info about this?

 

[Pinkertinkle]

Yeah don't worry about it. MDapplicants reflects maybe the top 5% of applicants.

 

[Shades McCool]

Sorry if this has been discussed before, but I am really concerned.

What gives with mdapplicants.com? Looking over this website it almost seems like everyone should just give up now! I know there are only about 1500 profiles and there are many more people who apply each year, but what the hell!?!? The profiles on that website make sound like you need a 4.0 gpa, a 39T on the mcat, and a resume that includes curing sickle-cell anemia and/or restructuring the health care system of an African nation, JUST TO GET ACCEPTED to a good med school.

Does anyone have any info about this?

There you go bashing the African-Americans again. I cannot stand for this.

 

[mdsadler]

Many people on MedApplicants lie about their stats to scare other people (as you may be now). There are real people with those stats on the webpage and not everyone lies but many of those aren't accurate. Also this is just a SMALL representation of the real deal. Of course those people with nearly god-like stats will not have a problem publicly sharing but those with sub par stats may not want to, even though the site is as anonymous as you want it to be.

 

[Rugger81]

yo shades mccool, i wasnt bashing anybody. the first 3 profiles i read on mdapplicants.com were from people who worked on health care related issues in Burkina Faso, Botswana, and Angola. if they had read about 3 european experiences, i would have said that instead.

so chill out.

 

[Shades McCool]

Learn how to kid around while you are at it.

 

[Rugger81]

hey sorry man i apologize, i am really bad at telling when someone is joking around online. i think it's the complete lack of vocal intonations that do it.

haha.

 

[Alexander99]

Sorry if this has been discussed before, but I am really concerned.

What gives with mdapplicants.com? Looking over this website it almost seems like everyone should just give up now! I know there are only about 1500 profiles and there are many more people who apply each year, but what the hell!?!? The profiles on that website make sound like you need a 4.0 gpa, a 39T on the mcat, and a resume that includes curing sickle-cell anemia and/or restructuring the health care system of an African nation, JUST TO GET ACCEPTED to a good med school.

Does anyone have any info about this?

Ask yourself this: who will really bother filling out MD Applicants if they were an average/below average applicant that got waitlisted/rejected everywhere? Not too many I'd assume.

 

[Shades McCool]

No hard feelings.

 

[g3pro]

There you go bashing the African-Americans again. I cannot stand for this.

It's quite funny how phony pre-meds travel to Africa to volunteer in a hospital to educate Africans about HIV. ADCOMs see through this BS as easily as their fellow pre-meds.

 

[rgporter]

Many people on MedApplicants lie about their stats to scare other people (as you may be now)...

That's crap. About 1800 people get a 36+ on the MCAT every year. How many years has mdapplicants been up? A large majority of those profiles are for real, luckily for everyone else numbers are only a small portion of admissions.

 

[W222]

I put my profile on there and I felt really inferior after I was looking at some of the others. For instance, according to the stats on the school I will be attending this fall, only two or three others have lower MCATs than me and I didnt do that bad.

 

[Rugger81]

yeah i guess you cant really tell what is going on with these people. although if it is anonymous, i dont get what satisfaction you would get from lying.

either way, the website seems freakishly skewed toward a certain type of applicant. just seems unusual.

 

[W222]

RGPORTER If 1800 people get above a 36 on the MCAT and there are roughly 34,000 applicants how many people get below a 36? Answer, the vast majority, and how many people on MDapplicants have over a 36, the vast majority. I smell liars also.

 

[Shades McCool]

All I know is that I will be fine with my stats and that is all I care about.

 

[Shades McCool]

The smurfs are asexual.

 

[Pinkertinkle]

Smurf 1: Yo, you have a good time last night?
Smurf 2: Smurftacular!
Smurf 1: Yeah I saw you leave with Smurfette.
Smurf 2: Oh man, as soon as we got out of the bar, she started smurfing me.
Smurf 1: Shut the smurf up!
Smurf 2: Yeah!
Smurf 1: Right in the smurfin' parking lot?
Smurf 2: Smurf yeah!
Smurf 1: Oh that is freakin' smurf.
Smurf 2: You smurf it.
Smurf 1: That is freakin' smurf

 

[Shades McCool]

First of all, Papa Smurf didn't create Smurfette. Gargamel did. She was sent in as Gargamel's evil spy with the intention of destroying the Smurf village, but the overwhelming goodness of the Smurf way of life transformed her. And as for the whole gang-bang scenario, it just couldn't happen. Smurfs are asexual. They don't even have reproductive organs under those little white pants. That's what's so illogical, you know, about being a Smurf. What's the point of living if you don't have a dick?

 

[rgporter]

Some of the happiest days in my life were started in front of the tube watching the smurfs.

By 36+ I meant 36 or better. Not sure of the exact breakdown from 36 to 42+.

 

[incubate6times]

It's from Donnie Darko.

 

[Shades McCool]

We have a winner. That is a badass movie.

 

[Dr. N]

you know I posted similar message about 2 months ago. When I looked at the mdprofiles I was shocked. But then talking to some medstudents and doctors, also my advisor -- I understood that most of those people are soooo unreal.

Sorry if this has been discussed before, but I am really concerned.

What gives with mdapplicants.com? Looking over this website it almost seems like everyone should just give up now! I know there are only about 1500 profiles and there are many more people who apply each year, but what the hell!?!? The profiles on that website make sound like you need a 4.0 gpa, a 39T on the mcat, and a resume that includes curing sickle-cell anemia and/or restructuring the health care system of an African nation, JUST TO GET ACCEPTED to a good med school.

Does anyone have any info about this?

 

[incubate6times]

One of my favorites.

 

[TRUE]

RGPORTER If 1800 people get above a 36 on the MCAT and there are roughly 34,000 applicants how many people get below a 36? Answer, the vast majority, and how many people on MDapplicants have over a 36, the vast majority. I smell liars also.

W222: Just because the vast majority of people get below 36 on the MCAT and the "vast majority" on mdapplicants have above a 36 on the MCAT, doesn't make people on mdapplicants.com liars. As was pointed out, it's a skewed sample and a very small one at that. That doesn't prove that people who do post on there lie about their scores.

Also, if you do a search on there for everyone who was accepted anywhere, the average mcat is a 32.8, which is of course much higher than the actual nationwide average of 30.X for matriculants (x = i can't remember the number). However, if you go through the list, the "vast majority" do not have over a 36, by any stretch. This also doesn't include looking for users who were not accepted anywhere.

 

[gobblety_gook]

That's crap. About 1800 people get a 36+ on the MCAT every year. How many years has mdapplicants been up? A large majority of those profiles are for real, luckily for everyone else numbers are only a small portion of admissions.

1800 is a VERY large estimate...The number of people that score 36+ is roughly equal to 3% of all MCAT test takers...if we're generous and say that 50,000 people take the test any given year (both April and Aug), that comes out to be about 1500...but I'd say the real number is far less (closer to 800).

Just goes to show you NOT to freak out over what you see at mdapplicants.com

 

[TRUE]

1800 is a VERY large estimate...The number of people that score 36+ is roughly equal to 3% of all MCAT test takers...if we're generous and say that 50,000 people take the test any given year (both April and Aug), that comes out to be about 1500...but I'd say the real number is far less (closer to 800).

Just goes to show you NOT to freak out over what you see at mdapplicants.com

58,000 people took the 2003 series of MCAT's. 4% of the people who took the test scored 36 or above. Therefore, 2300 people scored a 36 or above.

There is still no reason to freak out about the mdapplicant profiles, because as people have said, those who didn't fare as well or who had less stellar #'s might not be as likely to post their profile. However, the # of people on the site with 36+'s can be accurate.

 

[blz]

lol im impressed by your smurf knowledge.
you know, some people think that show had a communist agenda...

i personally liked the cat osre-AL (spelling?)

osre-AL? wtf....lol I believe it was Azrael.

 

[size_tens]

I'd like to point out that about half of all med school applicants don't get in anywhere. Almost everyone on mdapplicants has at least one acceptance. Obviously the sample size is somewhat skewed towards the elite end of the applicant spectrum. However I believe most of the stats on mdapplicants are legit and it was a very useful source of info to help me decide what schools to apply to.

 

[ventricle]

After looking at the numbers, I don?t think the mdapplicants.com data are so horribly unrepresentative. I compared some of their average numbers for accepted students against the US News figures for matriculants (in parentheses). When you bear in mind that the matriculant means should be a bit below those for the acceptees, the sample does not look so bad.

Below are the figures for 14 schools ? those with more than 50 reported acceptances and having data available in the most recent USNews rankings.


Einstein MCAT 33.8 (30.9), GPA 3.76 (3.64)

Case MCAT 34.5 (31.8), GPA 3.65 (3.64)

Columbia MCAT 36.1 (35.1), GPA 3.79 (3.79)

Jefferson MCAT 33.1 (32.1), GPA 3.68 (3.51)

Mt. Sinai MCAT 35.1 (32.7), GPA 3.76 (3.66)

NYU MCAT 35.0 (33.0), GPA 3.80 (3.70):

Northwestern MCAT 34.3 (32.4), GPA 3.72 (3.68)

Ohio State MCAT 34.6 (31.5), GPA 3.72 (3.63)

UCLA MCAT 35.5 (32.7), GPA 3.78 (3.67)

UCSD MCAT 35.5 (33.0), GPA 3.76 (3.73)

UMich MCAT 36.4 (34.5), GPA 3.81 (3.75)

Pittsburgh MCAT 34.5 (32.7), GPA 3.78 (3.70)

USC MCAT 34.1 (32.4), GPA 3.67 (3.62)

WashU MCAT 37.7 (36.6), GPA 3.83 (3.82)

 

[exmike]

given that the site is mostly anonymous, there really is no incentive to lie. obviously people that are accepted are more likely to post a profile, so it is self selective towards those with higher scores. as with anything else used in the admissions process, use it only as a guideline.

 

[xaelia]

Almost every profile on mdapplicants.com has received an acceptance (perhaps 15 or so good sports put their prior zero-acceptance applications on along with their reapplication profiles), and the average profile on mda.com is only a 31.4 MCAT and a 3.59. Considering the overall average applicant accepted to medical school according to AMCAS has a 30 on the MCAT, I wouldn't say the cross-section of profiles on the site would have no value to the average qualified applicant.

Considering the profiles are nearly anonymous, they don't really have any value as an outlet for self-promotion, and I've deleted over 100 fakes purporting to be a wide spectrum of unrealistic and unbelieveable profiles. It is, however, pretty intimidating to realize how many extraordinary people apply to medical school every year, and, at least for me, if a site like this had been around when I applied, I may have been more realistic in my expectations.

 

[Arsenic]

given that the site is mostly anonymous, there really is no incentive to lie. obviously people that are accepted are more likely to post a profile, so it is self selective towards those with higher scores. as with anything else used in the admissions process, use it only as a guideline.

So true. The data on that site is seriously skewed, most of the posters have insane MCAT scores and GPA's and are accepted somewhere.

It's still a great site, it would just be a lot better if it found a way for more average applicants to fill out profiles.