An Uncomfortable Question

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>boyx3–not to knock LeTourneau specifically, but after I looked at their accepted student numbers, I got suspicious. </p>

<p>The school claims a 88% acceptance rate–which is unusually high. Yet the average MCAT score of their applicants is a MCAT 29.2. This is a full 2 points BELOW the national average of allopathic med school matriculants for 2009-2010.</p>

<p><a href=“https://www.aamc.org/download/161690/data/table17-facts2010mcatgpa99-10-web.pdf.pdf[/url]”>https://www.aamc.org/download/161690/data/table17-facts2010mcatgpa99-10-web.pdf.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>This makes me think the school may be massaging its data. (Not that this school is any different than any other school. Many schools claim high med school acceptance rates, but their processes aren’t transparent.)</p>

<p>The take-away----take the acceptance rates that ANY college posts with a huge grain of salt.</p>