What are Liberal Art Schools?

monydad
Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:58:48 +0000

“In order to know something objective about the undergrad school’s influence on success at med school acceptance, how about taking the normalized difference of SAT/ACT at entrance and MCAT at exit of those who were accepted to some med school?”

That would be great so long as you can persuade the entire student body, or a statistically significant random sample, to take the MCAT, so that the MCAT test-takers do not represent a biased sample of the underlying student population there, as is undoubtedly the typical case.

Interestingly, I now see that the quote I cited in #45 has been subsequently changed, months after it was posted, by it’s poster to be more completely institution non-specific. For what that’s worth. Must have taken some heat for it from the “protectors of the faith”, after I referenced it on his school’s sub-forum previously. He retained the gist of it however, as a general matter. And the original post was as I quoted.