<p>Good find.</p>
<p>I said the Berkeley data was incomplete, and hence should not be used. Norcalguy said the Berkeley data was incomplete, and he used it anyway to compare the two schools. Pretty much my whole point was that you can’t cross-compare med school admissions data between the two schools. BUT if you WERE to use the flawed data, then this is what you’d find: </p>
<p>sakky said: “Berkeley:605 applicants/23000 undergrads = 0.02630
Cornell:441 applicants/13000 undergrads = 0.03384”</p>
<p>Not to be too picky, it’s 13600 for cornell, and according to Wiki (I rechecked), "Campus Enrollment : The following statistics are calculated from the Fall 2004 enrollment and were released by the University of California system (the 2005 statistics will be released Fall 2006):</p>
<pre><code>* Total Enrollment: 30,269
- Undergraduate Enrollment: 22,144 …"
</code></pre>
<p>so it’d be:</p>
<p>Berkeley:605 applicants/22100 undergrads = 0.02738
Cornell:441 applicants/13600 undergrads = 0.03243</p>
<p>multiply the two numbers by their respective acceptance rates,</p>
<p>Berkeley: 0.0183
Cornell: 0.0246</p>
<p>Now at this point I’d suggest (for the 224398574984th time) that Berkeley’s disadvantage in being a California public school accounts for the discrepency.</p>
<p>Thanks for the heads-up sakky.</p>