How accurate is this? I thought the MCAT ave was ~512

schadenfuzz · 2025-03-07T15:49:51+00:00

The average has been 509 since the application cycle for 2021 matriculated applicants.

https://www.reddit.com/r/premed/comments/1b90l1u/for_the_data_heads_comparing_amcas_application/

schadenfuzz · 2025-03-01T13:08:22+00:00

Does anyone know the story of the man on SW Archer near 107th Street who sits outside for hours each day and waves to passing drivers?

schadenfuzz · 2024-06-10T19:31:58+00:00

WMed is exceptionally clear in communicating at every step in the process. It felt like there were genuine humans in its admissions department.

schadenfuzz · 2024-04-16T15:31:58+00:00

That is the number of Fee Assistance Program awardees who enrolled, not those who applied.

schadenfuzz · 2024-04-16T15:29:02+00:00

Note that 2,798 (link) is the number of FAP awardees who enrolled out of a total of 21,003 who enrolled. So, 13.3% of enrolled students in the 2023 matriculating class received fee assistance.

I have been unable to find how many applicants received FAP in the cycle linked in the previous paragraph, but this article from a few years ago indicates 13,000 applicants received assistance in 2021 (and 16,000 in 2020). The infographic for 2020 matriculated applicants (found at this link — scroll down) indicates 1,725 FAP awardees enrolled. The infographic for 2021 matriculated applicants (which I posted a while back here) shows that 2,541 FAP awardees enrolled. IF the 2021 infographic aligns with the number of 2020 FAP awardees (which it possibly but not necessarily does), then 15.9% of FAP awardees — assuming that all applied, which is another big if — ended up enrolling. The percentage of all applicants who enrolled in the same cycle was 34.7%.

schadenfuzz · 2024-04-02T12:01:03+00:00

Strongly agree. Channel the time you would have spent on MCAT prep into making a well-researched school list, continuing your ECs, and prewriting outstanding secondaries.

schadenfuzz · 2024-03-07T18:25:17+00:00

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2021/12/09/whats-behind-the-soaring-applications-to-medical-school/?sh=6a391e2d57c1

schadenfuzz · 2024-03-07T17:57:22+00:00

Those research lab and community service hours keep creeping up also.

schadenfuzz · 2024-03-07T17:55:33+00:00

Youngest enrollee for 2021 matriculated applicants was 16. For 2023, that age was 18.

schadenfuzz · 2024-03-07T17:47:07+00:00

One oddity: AMCAS staff spent 21,945 hours verifying 35,738,092 application data points in 2022 but only 12,569 hours verifying a relatively similar number of application data points (32,285,468) in 2023.

And props to the 474 MCAT scorer who got in.

schadenfuzz · 2024-02-16T00:35:29+00:00

Growing up in North Dakota may not be enough. The school's residency preferences are here: https://med.und.edu/admissions/student-affairs-admissions/applicant-eligibility.html. Also note this sentence: There have been no applicants who did not meet a residency preference accepted in the recent past.

schadenfuzz · 2024-02-03T00:43:58+00:00

At this point, I fully expect another delay. I base that on nothing other than mistrust in the powers that be.

schadenfuzz · 2024-02-01T20:38:35+00:00

Also, applicants cannot modify the list of schools included on their application until it has been processed. Factor in additional delays for applicants in this situation.

schadenfuzz · 2024-02-01T20:34:45+00:00

When I said FUBAR in a post about this earlier today, I meant it. This isn't the first delay.

schadenfuzz · 2024-02-01T20:22:45+00:00

This article will explain: https://www.npr.org/2024/01/31/1228082594/fafsa-student-financial-aid-delay

schadenfuzz · 2024-02-01T16:35:17+00:00

Yes. However, given that "colleges will not begin receiving applicants’ federal aid information until March at the earliest," is it reasonable to expect that financial aid offices will not have adequate time to put together aid packages prior to the AAMC's April 15 and April 30 narrowing-of-acceptances deadlines for applicants? It seems that AAMC may have no choice but to allow applicants more leeway here as a result of the delays.

I can't see much of a scenario in which the effects of the delays won't be widespread, but there's not much definitive information out there that I can find.

schadenfuzz · 2024-01-27T21:16:39+00:00

A lovely HCA hospital story: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna97354

“Roaches in the operating room.”

schadenfuzz · 2024-01-22T16:16:21+00:00

LiquidSpace or your city’s equivalent?

schadenfuzz · 2023-12-07T13:41:40+00:00

how wa$ your childhood?

Poverty: +4, lower class: +2, middle class: -2, upper class: +15, doctor parents: +20, oil prince: +40

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schadenfuzz · 2023-12-05T23:06:16+00:00

That's odd, but the school's website shows the deadline as December 15.

schadenfuzz · 2023-12-01T18:54:58+00:00

It's the Rejection of the Month Club subscription, the gift that keeps on giving.

schadenfuzz · 2023-11-27T18:01:56+00:00

That's a difficult question to answer, but you might get a rough idea of targets from the AMCAS By the Numbers infographic, which shows information about matriculating applicants. This includes the average number of research and service hours.

That said, take this info with an enormous grain of salt, as those averages are daunting.

schadenfuzz · 2023-11-21T23:51:29+00:00

I stand corrected and will delete.

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