More Applicants or More Applications Per Applicant?

[jamaica jan sun princess]

I've seen a lot of discussion regarding the record number of applications many schools received in the 2020-2021 cycle. In my opinion, it takes more than 2 months to create a good application(mid-March shutdown to application season beginning). Could the increase in applications on the school level be largely attributed to applicants knowing they can attend more Zoom interviews than in-person ones in a normal cycle? Perhaps some students haad more free time to write more secondaries due to online classes(I know I did)? I know that once the cycle is over and the AAMC releases the data we'll know for sure, but we can kill time waiting for waitlist movement by speculating.

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[jamaica jan sun princess]

After opening this thread, I did a little more research and found that total applicants were down ever so slightly this year. I didn't realize this information was released before the end of the cycle.

https://www.aamc.org/media/37816/download

 

[jamaica jan sun princess]

It’s not released before the end of the cycle. The AAMC is weird with how they label their cycles. The data labeled “2020-2021” in that table is actually for people who matriculated in 2020 and had their first year of medical school during 2020-2021.

I'm thinking it's actually data for the 2020-2021 cycle because it was published just days after the cycle closed for applicants matriculating in 2021. The number of graduates is blank for 2020-2021, which would make sense because that number wouldn't be known for students graduating in 2021 but would be known for students who graduated in 2020.

By 11/02/2020(the date on the PDF), the number of applicants, medical school seats (matriculants), and total enrollment would be known.

 

[DoctorWhere]

Matriculant numbers are not set in stone at most institutions and have a bit of wiggle room. I tried matching the data from table A-1 with class of 2024 profiles but have not found an exact match yet.

Edit: See post below for confirmation that numbers from Table A-1 are from the class of 2024 as ChemEtoMD23 suggested.

 

[DoctorWhere]

Class of 2027 Profile – T.H. Chan School of Medicine

T.H. Chan School of Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School - Entering Class Profile

www.umassmed.edu