Liberal Arts Colleges for PreMed

bluebayou
Thu, 11 Jun 2020 20:26:16 +0000

waverlywizzard:

It seems disingenuous to say numbers are manipulated by HC.
Supporting and proffering their strongest candidates is something other colleges do, such as BC etc.
And yet their published acceptance rate is indeed extremely high.
https://www.holycross.edu/custom_entity/hc_statistic/106

Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics

What’s in numerator? (off shore, foreign?)

What’s in the denominator? (only those who obtain Committee approval to even apply?)

And even when one has the complete numbers, one has to remember that every state has different selectivity. Med school for CA residents is brutal. NY and TX not so bad. Thus, a resident of say NY that attends HC can always go back to their home state public. Not necessarily true of CA residents as three of the publics are top 15 national med schools – with admission stats to match. So a CA resident with similar numbers and recs to a NY or TX resident will find an allopathic admission much more difficult.