I dont understand, how can fewer people applying to med school be bad for us? Even if the average MCAT scores go up, its still good for premeds that the number of people applying goes down.
That way, although the MCATs might be higher this year compared to previous years,more people will still get admitted because last time I heard you can only accept a place at 1 med school. Ergo, more people will be getting in off the wait lists (provided that fewer people apply).
Caveat: this only works if the med schools dont change the number of people they accept on a year by year basis depending on the number of applicants during that particular year. (i.e. Harvard knows there are 12,000 applicants one year and decides to accept 100 people. But the next year there are only 8,000 applicants so they only accept 65 people). Does anybody know if theres any truth to this scenario?
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[This message has been edited by baylor21 (edited 06-28-2000).]