PA Acceptance Statistics??

[Ronald Kris]

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Now I notice a lot of PA schools put the number interviewed over accepted, but they don't say how many applied? What is the story behind this? One adcom told me it was to "not scare off applicants" but that it is "highly competitive." Some internet rumors have the number close to med school numbers. But then again, the school profits from having more and more people each year apply due to the application fee, so if the real reason is not to scare off applicants, than its a money thing. Obviously, the typical MD/DO student is more intellectually strong than the typical PA student. Also, some of the schools on the USNWR PA rankings (like Quinnipiac, Drexel, Alabama, Iowa) aren't known as academically strong overall institutions at all. No one forces PA schools to publish numbers like with med schools, so even the applicant numbers the adcoms tell you could be false. Get 1200 applicants times $75 = lotta beans.

What is the real story?

 

[pamac]

I think what you meant to say was that typical md/do student is more "academically" strong... Not more intellectually strong.

I do imagine there is some repetition between applicants applying to multiple schools, but if think I came across a stat a few years ago that broke down how many individual applicants applied vs how many got in. I think at the time it worked out to something like 50% of applicants that year got in. I think I applied to 8 schools, and I believe I only got interviews from 4. Obviously, an applicant can only go to 1. I imagine most folks apply to more than one program. If the ratio overall is 50%, that's still an intimidating statistic.

 

[Ronald Kris]

I think what you meant to say was that typical md/do student is more "academically" strong... Not more intellectually strong..

alright, BOTH. MD>DO>PA. Lot higher a percentage of aspiring PAs at middling schools like Fairfield, Quinnipiac, Scranton, Webster, Ole Miss, Sacred Heart than at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, even Lehigh, Lafayette, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio State, etc.

 

[deleted6669]

actually I think PA schools have a higher gpa avg than DO schools, not that it makes a bit of difference.
As far as admission stats, it is not uncommon for a PA program to get 1000 + applications for 30-40 spots.

 

[pamac]

Ronald, are you saying that as a PA applicant, you are not as intellectually robust as the typical med student?

 

[pamac]

You just never hear people talking about how much more intellectual ivy league grads are, but the academic accomplishments seem to be something more appropriate to cite, since that's easier to pick apart.