Hi, I just got a letter from njit in which they stated that 89% of their pre med students on average get into medical school. How reliable is this statistic? I am genuinely thinking of attending if the number is this high.
Not very unless they explain exactly how they arrived at this number. A college can claim anything they want, but unless they provide data, that claim is meaningless.
How do they define pre-med? Anyone who declares himself as a pre med freshman year? Or only those who have been endorsed by their college’s pre-med committee? (HINT: pre-med committees at most colleges refuse to endorse students who don’t already have an excellent chance of getting accepted to med school because they have high GPAs, excellent MCAT scores and exceptional ECs.)
How do they define med school? US allopathic schools only? US osteopathic & US allopathic schools? US schools plus international medical schools (like those in the Caribbean, Ireland or Eastern Europe)? Any healthcare profession that requires a doctoral program ( which includes physicians, physical therapists, clinical psychologists, pharmacists, optometrists, podiatrists, audiologists, nurse practitioners, etc)?
So, see there are nearly endless ways a college can distort the data to make their stats appear more favorable than they really are.
The number I meaningless because it doesn’t mean 89% freshmen who want to go to med school get into med school. What they mean is that after weeding everyone out, those left over have a 9 in 10 chance of making it somewhere medical.
I don’t know NJIT any more, 30 years ago, I took some courses there and the quality of academics was not so good and the class was large, you are just a number, you just go to the lectures and don’t know much about the student sit next to you. It was a commuter’s school.
Stevens Institute is a different school.