<p>oops, sorry, maybe I wasn't completely clear...</p>
<p>I can totally understand that an interview --> rejection is in no way a consolation at a school that you earnestly want to attend.</p>
<p>It's just that the original post implied that it was unbelievable for 40/3.9 students to get rejected from JHU. However, they DID get interviews, which is just about as far as stats can take you in the admissions process. It's very possible, then, that those 40/3.9 students had really bad social/interview skills and that's why they got rejected.</p>
<p>So, I was just trying to point out that the fact they got interviews means that JHU deemed their stats worthy, and that their stats got them as far as expected.</p>
<p>I would guess that the "stats" of accepted students do not differ much from those whom they interview and reject The stats of the entire cohort of those being interviewed at a place like Hopkins will be uniformly high. Although I am not privvy to their internal admission data, I will guess they interview about 10-15% of total applicants, perhaps 600-800, to fill a class of 120. It takes a lot of organization and effort for a medical school to arrange visits/interviews of students as the whole process requires physicians to set aside a fair amount of time on a volunteer basis. Thus, the limited number of interviews offered. It also means that some great candidates do not even get interviewed.</p>