Methodology
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This is a
ranking of medical school, ordered by how difficult it is to be
admitted to a school. The ranking is based on two important measures:
(i) The number of applicants for each seat (i.e., the number of
applicants per matriculant), and
(ii) The average MCAT score of entering students.
Here are the details:
(i) Using data reported by medical schools, we calculate the number of
applicants per matriculant by dividing the number of applications by
the number of first year students.
(ii) Using data provided by the AAMC (the MCAT authors), we calculate
the 'rarity' of the average MCAT score of each school. Specifically, we
calculate how many test takers there are for each one receiving
the average score of the school or higher. This number is derived from
the percentile of the average MCAT score of the school.
The product of the numbers obtained by (i) and (ii) is related to the
number of potential students competing for each seat of the
medical school. This number is listed in the last column of the table
as the
"Admission Difficulty".
A higher admission difficulty means higher competition for each seat at
the school, making it more
difficult to be admitted. The table is listed in declining difficulty
of admission: the school at the top of the table has the most difficult
admission
and the last school has the easiest admission. |
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