<p>Nothing is misleading about "your" statement. The misleading statement is to say that 84.4% of freshmen premeds that eventually applied to Medical Schools got into at least one of their choices. Big difference.</p>
<p>Please read posts # 11 and 13</p>
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<p>Like you yourself said, nothing misleading about this statement.</p>
<p>^^^^Alright, I see what you are saying however the overall discussion going on in the thread, is a little different. Again, I refer you to posts # 11 and 13. Why is this percentange being thrown around? For what? . Some people are taking it as : as an undergraduate, I want to apply to a school that has "this" particular percentage as high as possible, because it is an indication of the likelihood of me getting into medical school, if I attend that particular university as an undergrad"...Which is flat wrong. </p>
<p>All this percentage tells you is that " when you get to be a senior at the university in question, if you apply to med school, you have a ____% rate of being accepted."</p>
<p>Again, very different. That's all.</p>
<p>Yea, moviebuff. I understand your question but my point is that IT CAN STILL be used as a comparison to other schools. Don't all kids go into pre-med taking similar, hard courses? So weeding out is a viable and concurrent possibility AT ALL colleges! No college provides the stats you answer. Theyall do the easiest thing and take the number accepted/number applied and bam. </p>
<p>So Duke's astonishingly good number can still be used in comparison to another school that does the same calculation which most schools do.</p>
<p>Exactly. I think that as long as one knows what the numbers really mean, it may be helpful to look at the different schools the same way.</p>
<p>Yeah, people should know what the percentage means and then decide for themselves whether the percentage is an indication of the pre-med strength of the school or not.</p>
<p>Finally, it took 4 pages of debating to come to such a no-brainer conclusion. I am literally laughing out loud.</p>