PharmCAS School Page Stats?

[y0ssarian87]

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Does anyone know how the stats on the PharmCAS School Pages are calculated and/or provided? Does PharmCAS calculate those numbers and auto-populate the stats, or do the schools get to calculate everything on their own?

The reason I ask is that there seem to be some odd discrepancies. The first I noticed is with the Minnesota page. It says that the ratio of applicants to enrolled students is 2:1. It also says that the number of enrolled students is 167 and the number of interviewees (not even applicants!) is 360.

Also, I am a little surprised that Incarnate Word had the highest GPA in TX tied with UT, and I'm also surprised that only 130 were admitted for a class of 100. It seemed like there were several people turning down their acceptances there.

Also, Western's PharmCAS page seems to have omitted some of the information about admissions stats. This would lead me to believe that these are self-reported numbers. Anyone know?

 

[DrDrugs2012]

First off, what applicants see on PharmCAS is about 10% of the entire system. PharmCAS is like an iceberg from the perspective of the students. Administrators have a lot more backside functions within the system so they can manage their admissions process easier - its basically the main reason schools opt into PharmCAS in the first place.

Number of applicants is determined by PharmCAS for the schools who use PharmCAS as a central application process.

Number of interviewed candidates is also calculated in PharmCAS because applicant schools evaluate through the PharmCAS system (they basically move them along from applicant to 'interview' status). Doing so helps them keep track of their numbers. Of course, some schools may not use the PharmCAS system, choosing to do everything in Excel spreadsheets and wasting their own teams' time... in which case the number is self-reported.

The number of acceptances is also similar to the number of interviewees - can be PharmCAS generated or self-reported.

The entering class numbers are publicly available for almost all (if not all) schools and are self-reported but obviously measured against public data.

 

[y0ssarian87]

First off, what applicants see on PharmCAS is about 10% of the entire system. PharmCAS is like an iceberg from the perspective of the students. Administrators have a lot more backside functions within the system so they can manage their admissions process easier - its basically the main reason schools opt into PharmCAS in the first place.

Number of applicants is determined by PharmCAS for the schools who use PharmCAS as a central application process.

Number of interviewed candidates is also calculated in PharmCAS because applicant schools evaluate through the PharmCAS system (they basically move them along from applicant to 'interview' status). Doing so helps them keep track of their numbers. Of course, some schools may not use the PharmCAS system, choosing to do everything in Excel spreadsheets and wasting their own teams' time... in which case the number is self-reported.

The number of acceptances is also similar to the number of interviewees - can be PharmCAS generated or self-reported.

The entering class numbers are publicly available for almost all (if not all) schools and are self-reported but obviously measured against public data.

Thanks for the reply. I've seen parts of the back end when I was volunteering at USC. One of the pharmacists (who is also faculty) left it open on one of the computers I was using. I didn't really get a good look (I felt uncomfortable, so I promptly closed it), but I did notice that it's pretty easy to move individuals along through the process.

The reason I was asking the question is because I was trying to understand how the ratio of applicants to enrolled students was calculated. There was no mention of the total number of applicants for any of the schools, just that ratio and class sizes.

It just didn't make sense when I saw that the applicant to enrolled student ratio for Minnesota is 2:1, but they had over 2 times the number of interviewees than their entering class size. And unless I'm crazy you can't have more interviewees that applicants.