Medical School Admission Stats: MSAR vs US News vs School's websites

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So, I been looking through the MSAR, US News, and medical school websites for admissions stats(GPA/MCAT/etc) as a basic guideline for what schools I have a chance at. Anyways, I notice a huge discrepancy in the numbers for between the three. It seems that the numbers published by MSAR are always higher than the numbers reported by US News or on the websites of the schools(examples: USC, all the UCs, SUNY Upstate), and I was wondering what accounts for these differences? Thanks
 

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probably the way they round up.

11.5 = 12 in MSAR
11.5 = 12 in MSAR
10.5 = 11 in MSAR

Total 33.5 vs 35.
 

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So, I been looking through the MSAR, US News, and medical school websites for admissions stats(GPA/MCAT/etc) as a basic guideline for what schools I have a chance at. Anyways, I notice a huge discrepancy in the numbers for between the three. It seems that the numbers published by MSAR are always higher than the numbers reported by US News or on the websites of the schools(examples: USC, all the UCs, SUNY Upstate), and I was wondering what accounts for these differences? Thanks

Isn't MSAR accepted and US News matriculated?
 

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Looking at the 2008-2009 MSAR it says "MCAT Information:2006 Accepted Applicants"

I am just not sure about the US news stats b/c I don't have them available
 

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Looking at the 2008-2009 MSAR it says "MCAT Information:2006 Accepted Applicants"

I am just not sure about the US news stats b/c I don't have them available

Yeah but data from last year for each school? I gotta check that when I get home.
 

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Thanks for reminding me to add this to the pre-allo summary.
 

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MSAR is accepted median
US News is matriculated average
Schools' websites vary

There's going to be a huge discrepancy between accepted median and matriculated average. From what I've seen, MCAT changes by a point and GPA changes by 0.1 to 0.2 points in many cases.
 

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it is obvious that matriculated stats would be lower than accepted, right? and you said yourself that MSAR was higher than USNews? I think you answered your own question there.
 
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