What are Liberal Art Schools?

vonlost
Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:28:14 +0000

“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.”

Actually, I really am thinking very narrowly of only those who were admitted to some med school. The goal would be to rank schools by their influence on the success of med school acceptees. E.g., School A has a (normalized MCAT average - normalized SAT average) of, say, 100, and school B’s value is 200, meaning that school B has twice as much influence on successful med school acceptees as school A, thus removing the inherent SAT quality of students admitted at the undergrad level. It could mean the school B teaches twice as well as school A, even if school A’s MCAT and SAT scores are higher than school B’s. School B does more for the students.

Armed with this knowledge, a pre-med HS student with a given SAT score could choose among undergrad colleges admitting those in her score range, looking for the ones with the highest average MCAT score at graduation.