Hey you never know. Alot of people arent really as keen to the appliction process as many SDNers are. Take folks with poor SAT scores but apply to a myriad of schools anyways, because they are kind of clueless about the process. I myself was fairly clueless as well, Im the first one to ever go to college in my family, and no one around me in my family has ever made it past a high school education. Thus, I think the word that is more fitting is, "unfamiliar" with your stats and your chances. Coming into the AMCAS circuit, I was equally as clueless. Thank goodness I found SDN. However, I guess the fact that these students know about MDapps has to say, at least in part, that they do know somewhat, be it partially uninformed or not, about med school.
Whatever the case may be, and as "fake" or "ridiculous" as some of these stats are, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. There was an applicant with a 24 MCAT, who had a spectacular GPA, who applied to a bunch of reahc schools (harvard, JHU) but also listed that their number one choice was University of Texas, Southwestern. So i guess in-state preference works in their favor. I wouldn't see why anyone (unless they were really that much of a loser) would make a fake MDapps, but who knows. regardless of which, MSAR always reports on the ranges of scores (it'd nice to get a range of GPA's also) of it matriculants, so I suppose there HAD to be someone who had the lowest score but still got in somehow. Eh, I dont really concern myself too much about it. I'll be nice to the people, even if they are fake, who are nice and cordial and belittle those with amazing stats, but are a crime to social interaction. I want to get away from the med stereotype of arrogance as much as possible.
