Number of applicants for each school

[group_theory]

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Source: Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, Medical Education-2005 Data, February 2006 edition (volume 106, Number 2)

College
Number of Applications in 2003-2004
Number of Applications in 2004-2005
First-Year Enrollment for 2004-2005

DMU/COM
2180
2279
230

KCOM/ATSU
2441
2463
178

KCUMB-COM
2103
2216
239

LECOM
2076
2560
230

LECOM-Brandenton
*branch campuses shares the applicant pool with its parent institution (for this publication)
163 (class size)

MSUCOM
1609
1685
148

MWU/AZCOM
2090
2125
148

MWU/CCOM
2747
2943
175

NSU-COM
2059
2202
222

NYCOM/NYIT (data include the Accelerated Program for Emigre Physicians students APEP)
2808
2962
315

OSU-COM
1162
1180
89

OU-COM
2041
2125
116

PCOM
3396
3539
274

PCSOM
1334
1340
79

TCOM
1350
1483
135

TUCOM-CA
1942
2157
136

TUCOM-NV
*branch campuses shares the applicant pool with its parent institution (for this publication)
78 (class size)

UMDNJ-SOM
1737
1984
96

UNECOM
1867
1879
124

VCOM
660
1379
156

WesternU/COMP
1994
2033
207

WVSOM
1432
1500
108


Characteristics of Applicants in 2005 (n=8255)
Asian/Pacific Islander - 1668 (20.2&)
Black - 491 (5.9%)
Hispanic - 419 (5.1%)
Native American - 59 (0.7%)
White, non-hispanic - 5229 (63.3%)
Other or Unknown - 389 (4.7%)

Women - 4199 (50.9%)

 

[theraball]

Thanks for the interesting information, group_theory. It looks like the ratio of applicants to matriculants at most schools is about 12:1. I wonder how many of those who apply are accepted but go elsewhere. In other words, what is the ratio of applicants to acceptances, likely somewhat less than 12:1, I would think.

It must be a logistical nightmare juggling all those people with multiple acceptances. Do med schools only accept exactly the number of seats they have or do they "over book", knowing that some will decline?

 

[Taus]

Every single med school, regardless of degree, location, prestige, etc etc etc....accepts more then they expect to enroll. I'm sure each school has a certain number based on annual statistics, but yes...more are definitely accepted then enroll.

 

[group_theory]

All schools (MD, DO, even most undergraduate schools) offer more acceptances than space allow. How many to accept is based on recent trends and experience (traditionally, what is the yield on acceptance).

Of course, yields tend to varied every year and hence the reason why the first-year enrollment is never the same from one year to another.

Schools manage low yield by utlizing the wait-list. There is really no way to control an unexpected high-yield except to accept fewer people the following year and utilizing the wait-list if they underfill.



Overall, there is a 19.8% growth in applications between the 2003-2004 academic year and the 2004-2005 academic year. Compare this to a 5.8% growth between the 2002-2003 and 2003-2004 academic year.

First-year osteopathic medical students entering the 2004-2005 academic year had a mean GPA of 3.43. Mean MCAT for first-years were: biological sciences (8.53), physical sciences (7.89), and verbal reasoning (8.24). The mean MCAT scores of osteopathic medical students entering the 2004-2005 academic year were greater than the MCAT means of the previous academic year in the verbal reasoning, physical sciences, and biological sciences sections of the test.

 

[mj1878]

By the way, Touro-MI this year said they were on pace to get 4,000 applications.

 

[NonTradMed]

All schools (MD, DO, even most undergraduate schools) offer more acceptances than space allow. How many to accept is based on recent trends and experience (traditionally, what is the yield on acceptance).

Of course, yields tend to varied every year and hence the reason why the first-year enrollment is never the same from one year to another.

Schools manage low yield by utlizing the wait-list. There is really no way to control an unexpected high-yield except to accept fewer people the following year and utilizing the wait-list if they underfill.



Overall, there is a 19.8% growth in applications between the 2003-2004 academic year and the 2004-2005 academic year. Compare this to a 5.8% growth between the 2002-2003 and 2003-2004 academic year.

First-year osteopathic medical students entering the 2004-2005 academic year had a mean GPA of 3.43. Mean MCAT for first-years were: biological sciences (8.53), physical sciences (7.89), and verbal reasoning (8.24). The mean MCAT scores of osteopathic medical students entering the 2004-2005 academic year were greater than the MCAT means of the previous academic year in the verbal reasoning, physical sciences, and biological sciences sections of the test.

Cool, sounds like DO schools are getting a lot of good publicity. Stats aren't too bad either, although I'm surprised at how low the average PS is (not that I did all that well on the PS myself....).

 

[Duchess]

Group_Theory,

Thanks for the info. It's pretty interesting to look over those numbers.

 

[Krazykritter]

NonTrad,

This isn't actually publicity as it might seem. As group_theory states, it was published in last months JAOA. It would be great if they would get these types of figures into the standard MSAR (or whatever that book is called w/ the MD schools) so that we as a profession could get our name out.

 

[MikeyLu2010]

DO schools in general are getting more and more competitive....so the sooner you apply the better 🙂

 

[medhacker]

DO schools in general are getting more and more competitive....so the sooner you apply the better 🙂

True! 😎

 

[kovalchuk]

Applications do not equal completed apps, right? That makes the numbers look prettier if you figure up to 20% of apps aren't completed and thus aren't reviewed.

 

[docmd2010]

Also you have to consider the fact that the "applications" that these schools report are only the primaries....And, because schools only review completed files for interviews (except NYCOM) the number that they actually consider is usually around 50-60% of the applications. So for example School X gets 2000 applications, they may only get 1000-1300 completed files (depending on the schools). Out of these they'll accept people. So when these schools report how many applications they get, take that with a grain of salt and find out how many completed files tehy had, because no completed file=no consideration for interview. not taking anything away from the competitiveness of getting in but just making you all alert.

my 2 cents.

 

[docmd2010]

Applications do not equal completed apps, right? That makes the numbers look prettier if you figure up to 20% of apps aren't completed and thus aren't reviewed.

yupp