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You have to take this with a big grain of salt becasue the sample includes only those who report voluntarily and people have a tendency to report good news and suppress bad news
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I don't think that applies. I would argue that people who get in are also just as likely to not report in. After all, what do they "gain" by reporting that they got in? The survey is anonymous.
Besides, even if what you say is true, all you have to do is compare the statistics to those of other schools, as those statistics will have the same self-reporting problems. HYP, for example, have a90+% premed admit rate.
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Also, those with gpa<3.4 and mcat<30 probably won't or be allowed to apply unless they're minorities.
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Uh,
who is blocking them from applying? Berkeley certainly can't, as they don't have a premed committee screen. Heck, they don't even have a premed committee at all.
Besides, if what you are saying is true, then that makes the Berkeley statistics
even worse, right? After all, if you are blocking the mediocre candidates from even applying, and you
still have only a (self-reported) 60-65% admit rate, then that's
really not a very good rate at all. By blocking mediocre students from even applying at all, you should be
raising your admit rate.