Berkeley's placement into top medical schools

<p>"I don’t think so.</p>

<p>"Data was provided to UCSD’s Career Services Center by the Association of American Medical Schools (AAMC). "</p>

<p><a href=“http://career.ucsd.edu/sa/PMedHis.shtml[/url]”>http://career.ucsd.edu/sa/PMedHis.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>"The source of this data is the Association of American Medical Schools (AAMC). "</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.aamc.org/data/start.htm[/url]”>http://www.aamc.org/data/start.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>When you submit your information to AMCAS (and hence the AAMC), you are asked whether you wish your inforamtion released back to your undergraduate school. If you say ‘no’, I highly highly doubt that the AAMC is going to release your data anyway. If nothing else, that would seem to be a lawsuit in the making - i.e. when you specifically state that you don’t want data released to certain parties and it gets released anyway."</p>

<p>Look at the numbers reported on Berkeley’s page. For 2005, the data is 84/136. For 2006, the data released on AAMC shows that the total number of applicants from Berkeley is 574. Although there is a one year difference in data, I highly doubt that the number jumped up that much in one year. So, the number of applicants from Berkeley in 2005 is probably around 550 as well. Hence, the data on Berkeley’s career center page is missing a sizable portion (~75%) of the applicant’s data.</p>

<p>This is somewhat different than the data from UCLA and UCSD since the pages show the total number of applicants. From this and the absence of a caveat like the one shown on Berkeley’s page, I’m assuming that they are using the acceptance rate based on the entire applicant pool from their schools. Then again, as you said, it’s highly unlikely AAMC will release applicants’ data when it has been explicitly stated that they are not to be released.</p>