Poll: What did you score on the MCAT?

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What did you get on the MCAT

  • 39+ 2005-2007 MCAT

    Votes: 13 10.5%

  • 36-38 2005-2007 MCAT

    Votes: 11 8.9%

  • 33-35 2005-2007 MCAT

    Votes: 6 4.8%

  • 39+ 2008 MCAT

    Votes: 16 12.9%

  • 36-38 2008 MCAT

    Votes: 23 18.5%

  • 33-35 2008 MCAT

    Votes: 33 26.6%

  • 39+ Other year

    Votes: 5 4.0%

  • 36-38 Other year

    Votes: 2 1.6%

  • 33-35 Other year

    Votes: 15 12.1%
  • Total voters
    124
mmmcdowe said:
So we often talk about how overpopulated SDN is with top scoring folk MCAT-wise. I was just curious to see if we could get a representative sample and see what percentage of the top scorers we have for a given year.
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Where's the poll?
 
um those are a little high for me
 
sindadel said:
Here's an existing poll - how about everyone goes and votes in it and we will see. 🙂

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=375287
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It doesn't correct for date of MCAT though.

I will be able to tell based on two things. First, the sheer number of poll results. More scientifically, I will compare the relative quantities of each according to that website I posted for 2005-2007 folk. I will then correct for the 2008 by dividing by 3 and (if I'm feeling wild and crazy) correct for the increased number of applicants. Statistically, there should be about 4 36-38 for every 1 39+ and so on.
 
I've been scoring 33's on official AAMC practice MCATs. who knows what that really means though. I guess I'll find out around May...
 
Scored 45 when I was junior in high school. Planning to take it again in college to see how it turns out.
 
mmmcdowe said:
Lol I should have written the thread title better. I'm just interested to see if SDN is as overpopulated with top scorers as people think
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You won't be able to tell that if your poll only gives those with a top score the option to vote 😉.
 
muggle911 said:
You won't be able to tell that if your poll only gives those with a top score the option to vote 😉.
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Not true. I have 3 distinct categories. In theory, they should be proportional to their placement in the bell curve. Besides, I'm mainly interested in the people with 39+.
 
This is a great idea...it really makes me feel better that people on here are NOT normal competition

I must confess I get a slight panic attack after reading these forums, yet I still come back day after day. I'm only hurting myself by doing it, but it is a sickness
 
mmmcdowe said:
Not true. I have 3 distinct categories. In theory, they should be proportional to their placement in the bell curve. Besides, I'm mainly interested in the people with 39+.
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Ok I voted. Too bad I'm in your lowest distinct category :laugh:.
 
Wouldn't you get better data by puting lower categories on the poll? You are violating statistical rules by having a bias towards higher scores and you are not covering the entire SDN population by not including all scores. Whatever results you get are not viable as research data. 😀
 
cubssox2000 said:
Wouldn't you get better data by puting lower categories on the poll? You are violating statistical rules by having a bias towards higher scores and you are not covering the entire SDN population by not including all scores. Whatever results you get are not viable as research data. 😀
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Guess I'll have to fail statistics 😀.
 
I guess the better title would be "Poll for 33+ MCATers".
 
This just looks like a big egoist circle jerk to me
 
The current results are pretty interesting, seeing as how overpopulated the 36-38 crowd is. I wonder if that's normal for SDN, or if indicative of the people who spend their saturday nights on sdn :laugh:
 
Is this supposed to be a joke lol.. because its not "representative" if your only sampling people with high scores. THis really doesnt tell us much of anything.
 
LMAO


ohhhh this spawned the gpa poll.. oops!!
 
bnleong said:
Is this supposed to be a joke lol.. because its not "representative" if your only sampling people with high scores. THis really doesnt tell us much of anything.
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It tells me a lot of things. First of all it tells me that people with 39+ are reasonable proportional to that of 36-38 (it should be 3.5-4 times as many. Until a minute ago it was 4 and 16). It also tells me that there is a huge drop off in the number of people 33-35, which should be several times as more common than 36+. This might be because people are screwing with the data, or maybe its because there are actually less of them on SDN right now, etc etc. There's also an interesting trend towards high scores among those students who had older MCAT scores. Assuming that most of them are in medical school, it makes me wonder if they are more likely to stick around SDN after pre-med.
 
mmmcdowe said:
It tells me a lot of things. First of all it tells me that people with 39+ are reasonable proportional to that of 36-38 (it should be 3.5-4 times as many. Until a minute ago it was 4 and 16). It also tells me that there is a huge drop off in the number of people 33-35, which should be several times as more common than 36+. This might be because people are screwing with the data, or maybe its because there are actually less of them on SDN right now, etc etc. There's also an interesting trend towards high scores among those students who had older MCAT scores. Assuming that most of them are in medical school, it makes me wonder if they are more likely to stick around SDN after pre-med.
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people are going to mess up your results because you were being so 'elitist'- im not sure that's the right word, but you get my point.
 
I haven't even taken the MCAT but I'm going to go ahead and vote anyway.
 
mmmcdowe said:
It tells me a lot of things. First of all it tells me that people with 39+ are reasonable proportional to that of 36-38 (it should be 3.5-4 times as many. Until a minute ago it was 4 and 16). It also tells me that there is a huge drop off in the number of people 33-35, which should be several times as more common than 36+. This might be because people are screwing with the data, or maybe its because there are actually less of them on SDN right now, etc etc. There's also an interesting trend towards high scores among those students who had older MCAT scores. Assuming that most of them are in medical school, it makes me wonder if they are more likely to stick around SDN after pre-med.
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Umm did you ever stop to think about people who scored lower voting in your poll out of spite? Guess not. (Don't worry, personally, I didn't.)
 
Anyways, the answer seems to be yes. There is more than twice as many 36+ people than there should be when you compare this to the number of 33-35, even when you only compare this to 36-38 (I assume that there is a much more likely chance of people voting 39+ to "spite me" as someone said 🙂 ). So as far as any online poll can say, the top 5% of MCAT scorers are vastly over populated on SDN.

Shall I now see if SDN's suspicion of a vast overpopulation of low MCAT scorers is also true, or would that be too much against my elitist grain? :laugh:

Oh btw, I'm not a member of the superelite MCAT scorers.
 
mmmcdowe said:
It doesn't correct for date of MCAT though.

I will be able to tell based on two things. First, the sheer number of poll results. More scientifically, I will compare the relative quantities of each according to that website I posted for 2005-2007 folk. I will then correct for the 2008 by dividing by 3 and (if I'm feeling wild and crazy) correct for the increased number of applicants. Statistically, there should be about 4 36-38 for every 1 39+ and so on.
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mmmcdowe said:
It tells me a lot of things. First of all it tells me that people with 39+ are reasonable proportional to that of 36-38 (it should be 3.5-4 times as many. Until a minute ago it was 4 and 16). It also tells me that there is a huge drop off in the number of people 33-35, which should be several times as more common than 36+. This might be because people are screwing with the data, or maybe its because there are actually less of them on SDN right now, etc etc. There's also an interesting trend towards high scores among those students who had older MCAT scores. Assuming that most of them are in medical school, it makes me wonder if they are more likely to stick around SDN after pre-med.
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🤣

the only thing this poll tells me is that you desperately need to take a statistics course because you know absolutely nothing about it

(btw controlling for MCAT date doesn't matter at all)...the other poll that someone linked to would be better at telling you what you want to know...not to mention the sampling method makes any poll on here completely invalid for telling you anything.
 
:laugh: At the thread results.
 
If this thread is an attempt at humor, you've failed miserably...this is a train wreck. The results cannot possibly tell you anything at all, whatsoever. A single misconstrued word in a well thought out and implemented survey can derail results...you're asking an anonymous online forum what their MCAT score was...then you only let them answer if its in the top 15th percentile. You honestly think your poll is telling you anything at all? 👎
 
skinMD said:
🤣

the only thing this poll tells me is that you desperately need to take a statistics course because you know absolutely nothing about it

(btw controlling for MCAT date doesn't matter at all)...the other poll that someone linked to would be better at telling you what you want to know...not to mention the sampling method makes any poll on here completely invalid for telling you anything.
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I guess I don't understand why it doesn't matter when I'm trying to compare data with known figures to get the proper proportion.

Ultimately, this was out of curiosity. I'm sorry if you don't like the way I did it, but why would I bother with more detail than I have when, as is very clear, the vector of this survey is completely invalidating?

Also, I'm not sure if I agree with everyone saying that by not taking all MCAT scores this is an improper survey (though as mentioned above I acknowledge that it is). Isn't that a lot like saying a survey of african american women is invalidated if you don't also survey women from all other races? Or that surveying people who make over 100k is only valid if you also survey people below it? I was only interested in comparing the top 10-15% of scores in relation to itself. It only tells me that those in the top 5% are relatively overabundant in relationship to those in the top 10-15% overall. It obviously doesn't tell me if the top 15% is overabundant.

I also wanted to see just how many of the top scorers are on SDN, but the numbers are far too low still to really get an accurate view of that.
 
mmmcdowe said:
I guess I don't understand why it doesn't matter when I'm trying to compare data with known figures to get the proper proportion.

Ultimately, this was out of curiosity. I'm sorry if you don't like the way I did it, but why would I bother with more detail than I have when, as is very clear, the vector of this survey is completely invalidating?

Also, I'm not sure if I agree with everyone saying that by not taking all MCAT scores this is an improper survey (though as mentioned above I acknowledge that it is). Isn't that a lot like saying a survey of african american women is invalidated if you don't also survey women from all other races? Or that surveying people who make over 100k is only valid if you also survey people below it? I was only interested in comparing the top 10-15% of scores in relation to itself. It only tells me that those in the top 5% are relatively overabundant in relationship to those in the top 10-15% overall. It obviously doesn't tell me if the top 15% is overabundant.

I also wanted to see just how many of the top scorers are on SDN, but the numbers are far too low still to really get an accurate view of that.
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Dude I guarantee you at least half your poll responses are fabricated. The difference in taking a survey of only African American women is you know they are actually fit the criteria when you survey them. For the last time...this is an anonymous internet forum.
 
CRB 717 said:
Dude I guarantee you at least half your poll responses are fabricated. The difference in taking a survey of only African American women is you know they are actually fit the criteria when you survey them. For the last time...this is an anonymous internet forum.
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I understand that and agree that the VECTOR (SDN) invalidates the data, but under controlled circumstances would only polling top 15% be in itself invalidating?
 
mmmcdowe said:
I understand that and agree that the VECTOR (SDN) invalidates the data, but under controlled circumstances would only polling top 15% be in itself invalidating?
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having your selection criteria depend on your outcome (MCAT score) and your exposure (being on SDN) is a big problem. very briefly..since you are taking the poll on SDN you should include everyone and ask for all MCAT scores (since everyone uses SDN)...if you were taking the poll in person and asking people if their MCAT score and whether they use SDN then limiting it only to the top 15% would be fine.

...nice try though 🙂
 
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