top/bottom 10% on MSAR

[kangar00]

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recently, i've been reading some posts about how you can look up the GPA and MCAT statistics of the top and bottom 10% of matriculants to med schools. I have the MSAR and can't find this info anywhere... where is it?

 

[LizzyM]

The information for each school is on the graph/table on the right hand side of each page/pages. The 10%-90% is indicated by an highlighted bar while there is a circle indicating the mean and the national mean is shown at the same graph for comparison.

 

[SOcash]

The dark grey band accross the GPA scale on each school's page covers the bottom 10 percent through the top 90 percent.

 

[NickNaylor]

recently, i've been reading some posts about how you can look up the GPA and MCAT statistics of the top and bottom 10% of matriculants to med schools. I have the MSAR and can't find this info anywhere... where is it?

So, in other words, you can't easily find the data for the "worst" and "best" applicants (with respect to numbers anyway). However, considering those two ranges are made of only 2-4 people depending upon the class size, you can probably ignore them.

 

[boggvir]

Although combined with the median, I think it's an excellent tool IMO.

 

[LizzyM]

What it tells you is that most (80%) of applicants fall into "this" range and a very small proportion (10%) fall below the minimum of the range. If you, too, fall below the 10th percentile for the school, then you have a good idea of what your chances might be at that school.

Keep in mind, too, that the admitted students who fall in that lowest 10% often have other things going on (low gpa but high MCAT, high gpa but low MCAT), super legacy/donor/political clout, exceptional story (non-traditional, military veteran or current service member) or remarkable come-back story (with a low total gpa but an amazing upward trend perhaps after recovery from a devastating illness, injury or other tragedy). This might account for 10students in a class of 100.... And keep in mind that the 3.2 gpa might come with a 40 MCAT and a 3.9 gpa might come with a 28 MCAT and both might end up in the lowest 10% of a class in one measure and within or beyond the 10-90th percentiles in another.

 

[Narmerguy]

What it tells you is that most (80%) of applicants fall into "this" range and a very small proportion (10%) fall below the minimum of the range. If you, too, fall below the 10th percentile for the school, then you have a good idea of what your chances might be at that school.

Keep in mind, too, that the admitted students who fall in that lowest 10% often have other things going on (low gpa but high MCAT, high gpa but low MCAT), super legacy/donor/political clout, exceptional story (non-traditional, military veteran or current service member) or remarkable come-back story (with a low total gpa but an amazing upward trend perhaps after recovery from a devastating illness, injury or other tragedy). This might account for 10students in a class of 100.... And keep in mind that the 3.2 gpa might come with a 40 MCAT and a 3.9 gpa might come with a 28 MCAT and both might end up in the lowest 10% of a class in one measure and within or beyond the 10-90th percentiles in another.

Good advice.

 

[Big Dog]

If I read the charts correctly, they are not matriculants but acceptees....

 

[QuesoAndFromage]

If I read the charts correctly, they are not matriculants but acceptees....

haha exactly what i was thinking