What are Liberal Art Schools?

monydad
Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:27:59 +0000

I was speaking generally, I don’t know which specific schools have or don’t have particular committtees. I know that some do, and I know that some people do not make grades to justify applying to med school.

And I’ve read a couple specific posts to this point by LAC alums too, right here on CC.
Here’s one of them:

"My alma mater, a top LAC and rival to Amherst, claims 90% admissions - but the reality is that, given the weed out, the real number is closer to 25-30%. "

As for other schools which have less than 84% acceptance rate: differing weed-out practices aside, maybe more of those other students aren’'t as smart. The schools may have a less homogeneous student body. If a person with poor grades and poor MCATs applies from a given school, he may have a poorer chance of admission. That does not mean that you, with better grades and better MCATs from the same school, are in any way necessarily going to share his fate. At the end of the day each person applies on his own individual merits. In a very homogeneous student body the range of merits will be narrower. If it is homogeneously high more of them will get in. That does not mean you will get in, from that same school, if your individual merits are not comparable.

that’s assuming that weed-out is not the real issue.