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Isnt it weird when medical and dental schools applications are going up while the opometry schools application are going down?
What are people's thought here? I heard from my advisor that professional schools application will be increasing the next 2~4 yrs starting last year because we are in a big economy slump. This is true with my college's med and dental schools. However, the optometry application had been sliding big time the last 5-7 yrs. Why is this happening? Is it because the fear of refracting opticians or the corporate optometry?
I actually asked one school's admission office and they told me it's because less people from the low academic range are applying now. I dont think this will have a dramatic impact on the applicants pool but last year about 2400 applied and 1700 got in. So from my stats formula i figure every applicant will get in by the time of 2014. I am not trying to make this a big deal but I am kinda worried since I got into both dental and optometry schools...I need a decision!
What are people's thought here? I heard from my advisor that professional schools application will be increasing the next 2~4 yrs starting last year because we are in a big economy slump. This is true with my college's med and dental schools. However, the optometry application had been sliding big time the last 5-7 yrs. Why is this happening? Is it because the fear of refracting opticians or the corporate optometry?
I actually asked one school's admission office and they told me it's because less people from the low academic range are applying now. I dont think this will have a dramatic impact on the applicants pool but last year about 2400 applied and 1700 got in. So from my stats formula i figure every applicant will get in by the time of 2014. I am not trying to make this a big deal but I am kinda worried since I got into both dental and optometry schools...I need a decision!