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<p>Uh, that’s what I meant by rejecting a null hypothesis - where that null hypothesis would be that Berkeley is not a superior school for premed (and hence would be at the mean). </p>
<p>But the difference is that my ‘mean’ would be a mean compared to Berkeley’s peer schools. It’s fairly obvious that Berkeley premeds do get placed at a higher rate than the national average, as it should be, simply because Berkeley is supposed to be an above average school. After all, there are literally over 2000 4-year colleges and universities in the US, the vast majority being no-name schools. You would expect Berkeley to be better than most of them. The real question is, whether Berkeley is better compared to other schools that the typical Berkeley student could have gotten into. That’s the interesting comparison. After all, nobody is comparing Berkeley to, say, Southwest Missouri State University.</p>