OAT Score Distribution for Accepted Students

[dylennon]

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I've tried a couple searches on google and these forums for this, so it may be a dead end... but I'm looking for OAT score distributions for accepted students. Per school or Nationally, either one. I found an old SDN thread from 2005 that referenced a 5 year breakdown of OAT scores for SCCO. Well, it was actually a range (i.e. 300 - 380). From what I can tell SCCO doesn't do that any longer. Seems like it's a pretty uniform Mean Score that gets reported (of which you can find for the accepted and applied students per the opted site). The MCAT folks provide this info but no such luck for OAT (that I've found yet).

My curiosity mostly comes from seeing many schools with mean scores in the low 300's. Then, of course, you have Puerto Rico and MCPHS reporting a mean in the high 200's. I'd actual prefer a median score reporting to the mean, but they haven't asked for my input yet 🙂.

12 of the 21 schools reported the 2012 entering class report (from opted) have scores averaging 318 or lower. This suggests to me that many students are getting accepted with scores under 300, though I can't prove it without distribution data. And we're talking about established, respected schools, too.

I don't mean to start an argument (though I'm sure it will). I guess I just like looking at the numbers and hope someone knows how to find it.

 

[drumstix]

I've tried a couple searches on google and these forums for this, so it may be a dead end... but I'm looking for OAT score distributions for accepted students. Per school or Nationally, either one. I found an old SDN thread from 2005 that referenced a 5 year breakdown of OAT scores for SCCO. Well, it was actually a range (i.e. 300 - 380). From what I can tell SCCO doesn't do that any longer. Seems like it's a pretty uniform Mean Score that gets reported (of which you can find for the accepted and applied students per the opted site). The MCAT folks provide this info but no such luck for OAT (that I've found yet).

My curiosity mostly comes from seeing many schools with mean scores in the low 300's. Then, of course, you have Puerto Rico and MCPHS reporting a mean in the high 200's. I'd actual prefer a median score reporting to the mean, but they haven't asked for my input yet 🙂.

12 of the 21 schools reported the 2012 entering class report (from opted) have scores averaging 318 or lower. This suggests to me that many students are getting accepted with scores under 300, though I can't prove it without distribution data. And we're talking about established, respected schools, too.

I don't mean to start an argument (though I'm sure it will). I guess I just like looking at the numbers and hope someone knows how to find it.

I think it's interesting to look at trends like you but the raw data would only tell half the story. One would need to also look at the GPAs to get the full picture. And I'd say aligning the GPAs to the OAT scores would probably be the best way to see what's going on. A person with a low OAT score probability had a stellar GPA and vice versa, so there's probably an underlying balancing effect that can easily be overlooked when such data is not aligned together properly.