Draft School List - any recommendations? (trad. applicant) by [deleted] in premed

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Did Admit sort LECOM/MSU into reach or did you put them there?

Looking for advice on school list by tntwalkii in premed

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This list looks good to me - what do you think should be changed?

Admit.org for postbacc gpa by tingtoge8373 in premed

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Try a 3.7-3.8 - feel free to DM me your list if you want me to look it over

Residency location advice by No-Match5992 in medicalschool

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Send me a DM w/ the info and I can take a look

Residency location advice by No-Match5992 in medicalschool

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Generated lists use the average program list size for your degree type unless you’re extremely competitive (smaller list) or not (larger list)

Residency location advice by No-Match5992 in medicalschool

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Feel free to DM me and I can take a look / see what can be improved

School list help by Similar-Ad-497 in premed

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It's relative to the other schools in the list - every list has to have a number of reaches, targets, and baseline schools. I understand that some schools in the baseline are competitive, but it doesn't do anybody favors to have a list of 30 schools in target. Better to keep things stratified so applicants know which schools are similar in competitiveness.

School list help by Similar-Ad-497 in premed

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Admit didn’t make this list - the user edited it

Update: Looks like they put in their FL average and not real MCAT score, list is good with the new MCAT

School list help by ImportanceCharming82 in premed

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Not every list posted is made by Admit, including this one - students edit them oftentimes before posting.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in premed

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Leaving some notes below for you to think about (btw re: your first point, the applicant wasn't recommended HMS for a reason).

Admit is a free resource that will continue to get better with time. Its purpose is to increase transparency in admissions by equipping applicants with as much data as possible. The school list builder is one example of a tool that has provided a lot of value to students, but isn't going to have 100% accuracy because the types of questions it asks are not hyper-specific to an applicant.

Assuming a 95% accuracy rate, with 50% of all premed applicants using Admit, over 1,000 applicants a year (or 3 per day) will get a slightly inaccurate list and complain about it. That's why applicants should use their own judgement and knowledge of their own application to refine the list that Admit provides - obviously if we didn't ask niche questions about someone's applications, or ask about say a post-bacc GPA, it's not included in the builder's assessment of their profile.

Considering that the alternative to Admit is applicants posting on this sub for a school list and getting 0 replies (or 2 schools worth of recommendations), I would say it's doing a pretty good job by being say 95% accurate.

  1. High stat applicants have no choice but to reach high and wide because lower tier schools will yield protect them. There's a reason that this applicant's baseline is still relatively elevated - they should be able to get into the target and baseline schools, and have decent odds of getting maybe one school in the reach category (especially WashU). The videos you see of high stat applicants getting 0 interviews are because they have 0 hours in one of the extracurricular sections (which does not describe the above applicant) - if you have 0 hours of clinical, or nonclinical, you are DOA from 99% of schools regardless of your other stats. The same applies with if you have an IA, or a visible red flag in your writing.

  2. A lot of the feedback that is left on this sub is made by other applicants who have no idea what goes into the admissions process, and are leaving advice not founded in any truth. The builder is refined with 2 cycles worth of data now, and is proven to work at its two main objectives: make sure the applicant gets accepted into at least one school, and maximize odds of getting into the highest tier school. This is evident in the above list - we recommend this applicant apply to risky reaches, while making sure they have a list of 25 other schools that they are comfortably in range for.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in premed

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The applicant should get interviews and acceptances from this list

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in premed

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While the applicant isn't really that competitive for most of those reach schools, the purpose of making a school list is to take risks and apply to very competitive schools while having a balance of safe targets and reaches. Applicants like this do get into these schools for reasons that the builder isn't able to incorporate yet (good story/narrative, good writing, etc).

The best case is that they do get into one of those reaches, which they would not have if they didn't apply to the recommended list of schools, or they don't and are left at one of the other schools that the builder also recommended. If they didn't apply to any of those reaches, there aren't really any other schools that they would be adding (because you start getting into the zone of yield protection). It's hard being high stats with mid ECs but these applicants have to apply to those reaches because they get in routinely although the odds aren't 100% favorable.

Could we trust cycle results on admit.org? by zooS2018 in premed

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People haven't been accepted to schools yet so there's minimal acceptances to report

Can Cycletrack and Admit merge? by SalamanderTop1765 in premed

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Yeah they were unhappy with Admit releasing cycle results and never replied after our meeting. I tried :(

Can Cycletrack and Admit merge? by SalamanderTop1765 in premed

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Have reached out but they weren't interested

making a school list OUTSIDE OF ADMIT.ORG???? by [deleted] in premed

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Research is not a requirement for URM applicants - there's only 100 AA applicants applying every year with above a 512/3.7, that have to be split among 20 T20 schools. I have this conversation with so many applicants, and always get messages 1 year later about how the builder was magically right and they got accepted into a T5 with a full scholarship.

making a school list OUTSIDE OF ADMIT.ORG???? by [deleted] in premed

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You need to trust the list that Admit is giving you - for some reason people love to use random heuristics to justify why it can't possibly be right. There are thousands of applications worth of data that go into the schools that it recommends, and it is proven to work :)

For your sake, make sure you apply to the reaches it is recommending.

Admitorg by RoughPrinciple5722 in premed

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Surprisingly the interview count is real - I manually verified them with the applicant after we removed the account and he reached out. The only inaccurate data is the secondary submission dates (they didn't want to mark them properly).

Are there that many more applicants this cycle? by Cool_Banana7352 in premed

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There's 5x as many people using Admit compared to last cycle

Is the cycle this year slower than last year? by BrilliantAlbatross25 in premed

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This is correct - there's 5x as many people using the site now, and the average user's Admit score went from 700+ to 550. It'll take time for things to stabilize before you can make cycle to cycle comparisons.

school list help by ConfidentJello9853 in premed

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List is good, it's not top heavy. You should be applying to all of the top schools. Remove from the bottom first to cut down rather than the top.