<p>One big thing about med school acceptance rates:</p>
<p>Colleges can “massage” their data in many ways. For example, if you have a set of 10 identical people at 2 different colleges, it may play out like this:</p>
<p>College 1:
7 qualified applicants, 3 iffy candidates. College convinces 3 iffy candidates not to apply, 6 of 7 qualified applicants get accepted, ~86% acceptance rate – but only 6 of 10 who wanted to apply got in.</p>
<p>College 2: 7 Q, 3 iffy – college lets all apply, 6 of 7 qualified applicants are accepted and 1 of 3 iffy are accepted. That gives them a 70% acceptance rate, which looks worse, but 7 of 10 got in.</p>