Question about Average MCAT in MSAR

[Saluki]

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Is the average MCAT score for accepted applicants or matriculants?

 

[firebird69guy]

applicants... that's why it's a little misleading.. remember, not all accepted applicants actually matriculate at that school.


if it were actual matriculants, i'm sure most schools averages would be lower

 

[Elastase]

They really should show both. Averages of accepted and matriculated. Somehow I imagine that they do that to discourage applicants to apply to their schools (because they get enough as it is)...

Just a thought...

 

[willow18]

This is good news. I'm somewhat encouraged. I mean for example NYMC shows an average of 30. But it is supposedly a notorious "backup school", i.e., a lot of mid-upper 30's also apply there and are accepted but don't matriculate...

 

[madonna]

do you really think that there are school with ave mcat below 30? i sure hope so but that would mean that they routinely take people with like 27+.

 

[Saluki]

do you really think that there are school with ave mcat below 30? i sure hope so but that would mean that they routinely take people with like 27+.

A lot of the state schools and a few of the private ones do have average MCAT scores around 28 or 29. (Not the UCs of ourse )

 

[kalenakai]

On a side note, I wish the MSAR would list the number of people ACCEPTED, not only applied, interviewed, and entered.

 

[Saluki]

On a side note, I wish the MSAR would list the number of people ACCEPTED, not only applied, interviewed, and entered.

I've wished that same thing many times...

 

[QofQuimica]

I've wished that same thing many times...

mashce, your MCAT score is competitive for any school in the nation. Check your PM box.

 

[willow18]

do you really think that there are school with ave mcat below 30? i sure hope so but that would mean that they routinely take people with like 27+.

Do the math. Many 35-37's apply to mid/low-tier schools as backups. They get accepted, but end up going to a "higher tier" school. If the average acceptant had a 30 mcat - driven up by the 35-37's - the average matriculant has to be lower.

 

[jackets5]

that makes real good sense. so we should assume that the MCAT scores in the MSAR are probally about 1-3 points higher than the acutal MCAT scores of matriculated students? This is for schools outside the top 20 im assuming

Do the math. Many 35-37's apply to mid/low-tier schools as backups. They get accepted, but end up going to a "higher tier" school. If the average acceptant had a 30 mcat - driven up by the 35-37's - the average matriculant has to be lower.