<p>I don’t think Cornell is trying to make a statement about osteopathy lol</p>
<p>Rather, I think it has to do with the ease of obtaining data. Osteopathic med schools use an entirely different application system from the one allopathic med schools use.</p>
<p>Secondly, I think Cornell tries to restrict its data so it can be useful to the most number of students. Notice that Cornell’s data is very specific: only allopathic med schools, only college senior applicants, only non-URM’s. The majority of Cornell’s applicants are non-URM, senior applicants to allopathic med schools. It doesn’t matter if a 3.4/29 applicant got into an osteopathic med school or if a URM with 3.2/30 got into an allopathic med school because most of Cornell’s applicants aren’t applying to osteopathic schools and aren’t URM’s. These are confounding factors that can lead you to make incorrect conclusions.</p>