http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/14082931#Comment_14082931
The university has a particularly high concentration of NYS residents, maybe that plays into things somehow too.
Like if NYS med schools are more competitive as a group than those of some some other states, and the state where you have some advantage in med school admissions is the state that you are a resident of. I don’t know if it works like that though.