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[Xcy999]

Decode of how podiatric medical schools pick up their incoming pre-podiatric students.

*All original data come from the Podiatric Medical College Information Book 2021-2022*. You can confirm data by the link below

https://aacpm.org/wp-content/uploads/CIB_2021-2022-FINAL.pdf

The low ending is potential podiatric medical schools cut off line for MCAT and Science GPA.

L-MCATs are potential podiatric medical schools cut off line for MCAT.

L-sGPAs are potential podiatric medical schools cut off line for Science GPA.

L-tGPAs are potential podiatric medical schools cut off line for Total GPA.

My Conclusion: Some schools more like pick up students with higher MCAT score, which schools lining to right. And some schools like students with higher GPA performance. Schools lining to the up-right corner may more like to picky students, but this do not means those school have the best performance.

---> You can check school performance part by following post below

But you can easy figure out school characters from the bubbles:
TUSPM favorite high MCAT students, and DMU like high GPA students;
NYCPM less care about incoming students' GPA, KSUCPM more tolerant your MCAT.
In the same MCAT score, SCPM more picky students' GPA than NYCPM.

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[HarmonicConvergence]

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Low ending are potential podiatric medical schools cut off line for MCAT and Science GPA.
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L-MCATs are potential podiatric medical schools cut off line for MCAT.
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L-sGPAs are potential podiatric medical schools cut off line for Science GPA.
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Wow you had the time today! Well done!!!

 

[DexterMorganSK]

@Xcy999 has done an amazing job creating the data available in this thread. I hope they continue to update it from year to year.
Please forward your questions (from this thread) to Xcy directly.

There is also an X vs Y school thread, use both to pick a program: Help Me Decide: X vs Y Podiatry School

 

[Xcy999]

Philosophy of my school performance: A good school is to make disadvantaged students become a good outcome by cost-efficiency.
(Higher Result is a better school for me)
Result = Good Outcome - incoming student sore with cost
Outcome = graduation rate + board part I + board II w+ board II CSPE + match rate
I weigh graduation rate x2 higher than other factors.
Incoming Performance = MCAT score + sGPA + tGPA +2-years cost(K)

For Example:
1. If School A and school B get the same outcome and cost, but the A school incoming student score and cost lower than the B, the A get a Higher Result.
2. School C and school D both have the same GPA and MCAT student with the same cost, and the outcome higher one is a winner.

The trend line shows that podiatric schools' outcomes are positively related to incoming student academic performance(GPA+MCAT). Upside trend line schools have slightly better performance.

After added a cost of education factor into our bubble model, the relationship between school performance with incoming student academic status is gone. All nine podiatric medical school students have similar money and academic input(between 300-400), only CSPM is an outlier(*the Podiatric Medical College Information Book 2021-2022 shows CSPM living cost 54k, which extremely higher than others, please confirm the cost by yourself). Notice: All costs do not count any scholarships.

Conclusion: Lots of podiatrists, residents, and senior podiatric students repeat that money and debate always is an important factor for medical school education. In the last graph, the performance of nine podiatric schools shows the majority overlapping each other after count the financial cost. We can confirm that all nine podiatric medical schools have similar performance after putting the economic factor in. But I personally will prefer bubbles on the top other than the bottom if do not consider any scholarship, class size, gender ratio, location, and other environmental factors.

Final: All podiatric medical schools provide wonderful medical training for you in the following 4 years' medical education journey; and we can find tons of successful podiatrists from all of 9 podiatric colleges. I wish everyone can find the best fit for yourself.