<p>Everyone has seen this:
AAMC:</a> FACTS Table 18: MCAT and GPAs for Applicants and Matriculants by Undergraduate Major
And everyone goes. OHHHHHHH I should be taking humanities and physical sciences since they score the best on the MCAT. Boo bio and specialized health services they suck balls!</p>
<p>But wait! When you look at the matriculates you see that when it comes to the subject. The average MCAT of an ACCEPTED bio or health services student is LOWER than the for phsyical scientist or humanties. Which would mean med schools FAVOR bioist or specialized health services.</p>
<p>the data tells me that Bio is still the safe bet. Specialized health services are crap. And that math and physics wizes are only good cause they are self selected. </p>
<p>okay guys who is your interpretation of the data. (BTW interpreting data is part of the MCAT so if you can give me your 2 cents have fun working at McDonalds and sending me more pateints :P)</p>
<p>If the average scores for biology major applicants are lower than the average scores for humanities and physical science majors, then obviously the average scores of matriculants will be slightly lower as well.</p>
<p>Besides, the lower average MCAT of bio majors is correlated with a lower matriculance rate for biology majors. The national proportion of accepted applicants for 2008 was 42.7%. The acceptance rate for biology majors was 42.3%, whereas the acceptance rate for humanities majors was 50%, 31% for specialized health science, 46.4% for math and stat majors, 43.8% for social sciences, and for physical science majors was 46.9%. In other words, bio majors may have lower average MCAT but they also have a proportionally lower acceptance rate. Humanities majors have a higher average MCAT and a proportionally higher acceptance rate.</p>
<p>In fact, if you plot acceptance rate for each major against average matriculated MCAT score of each major, you get a very strong linear correlation between average MCAT and acceptance rate (r=0.93). This strongly suggests that it’s not the major that makes the difference but the MCAT score, regardless of major. I bet you’d find a similar trend with GPA.</p>
<p>(I was doing stat hw and was bored 
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