Berkeley's placement into top medical schools

[sakky]

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Did you mean to post this as the third link?
<a href=“http://career.berkeley.edu/MedStats/2005oneyearout.stm[/url]”>http://career.berkeley.edu/MedStats/2005oneyearout.stm&lt;/a&gt;

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This isn’t exactly a true statement. The data just show that there are more of these applicants who chose to release their information than graduating senior applicants.

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<p>That’s what I meant in both. </p>

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From the “one year out page” link, it seems that the placement rates are almost identical: 62% for graduating seniors and 61% for one year out students.

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<p>Look at all of the years in which data is available (2001-2005), and you will see that, on average, the one-year-outs tend to have lower placement rates. </p>

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Furthermore, looking at the same GPA and MCAT ranges, it seems that a higher percentage of applicants are accepted in the one year out applicant pool.

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<p>Yes, but that’s not a fair comparison, is it? After all, I think we agree that the ones who had high GPA’s and MCAT scores tend to be the ones who get in as graduating seniors. Hence, the one-year-outs tend to be shifted downwards with worse stats. I agree with you that somebody with equivalent stats but with 1 year’s of work experience (perhaps in a research/medical setting) is probably an even better candidate than that same person with the same stats without that experience. But, like I said, somebody with good enough stats to have gotten into med school will probably have gotten in as a graduating senior.</p>