<p>I have noticed that several med schools are rather uneven in terms of male and female matriculants. As a male, would it benefit me to apply to schools where i am the minority with respect to gender?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Yes, it would.</p>
<p>Actually, I doubt it. If a school's matriculating class differs significantly from the gender breakdown of their applicant pool, then it's likely some sort of policy decision - whether intentional or unintentional. I'd look more closely at applicant pool numbers...which at least for 2006 data is not particularly interesting (except for Utah which had males represent nearly 70% of their applicant pool).</p>
<p>I don't remember where I saw these stats, but admissions rate for men at NYU was about 50%, while the rate for women hovered around 20%. I assumed a lot more women than men apply to NYU.</p>
<p>Is there a compiled source of applicant data that you used? I didn't see anything like that in MSAR. Or did you just use individual websites...</p>
<p>After looking at Utah's data, matriculants were roughly 65% of the incoming class, which represents their applicant pool pretty well if males made up 70% as you said. I would interpret that to mean Utah is not interested in having a more males than females, that's just how it worked out for them.</p>
<p>If a school's acceptance statistics differ from its applicant pool stats in favor of say, males, then perhaps it would actually be better for a male to apply to that school? I guess its just a matter of whether the school wants to keep the percentages at a certain point due to policies as you stated, or if the school will strive to achieve a 50-50 balance. I'm slightly confused though ~_~</p>
<p>EDIT:
Shades- I'm assuming those stats are undergrad, otherwise NYU, here i come! But yeah, i was looking at med schools.</p>
<p>jakem333:</p>
<p>No, I'm talking NYU Med.</p>
<p>Overall Acceptance Rate: 29.7%
Acceptance Rate (Men): 48.9%
Acceptance Rate (Women): 13.3%</p>
<p>Medical University of SC</p>
<p>Overall Acceptance Rate: 24.4%
Acceptance Rate (Men): 44.2%
Acceptance Rate (Women): 5.7%</p>
<p>Source: USN&WR Ultimate Guide to Medical Schools, First Edition, 2004</p>
<p>Seems a bit unbelievable to me, but I doubt USN&WR just pulls these stats out of its collective butt. Those are the two schools with HUGE discrepancies. There's a more recent edition out - 2006 I think - so you could look that up and see if it's changed.</p>
<p>you'll have to do the actual math on your own for gender specific rates but here's the data.</p>
<p>As a rule, I always go to the AAMC data above (there are more tables @ <a href="http://www.aamc.org/data/facts/start.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.aamc.org/data/facts/start.htm</a>) first, then MSAR, then anything else.</p>
<p>Those statistics can't be right. According to US News, the acceptance rate for NYU in 2005 was 6.3%.</p>
<p>Those statistics can't be right. According to US News, the acceptance rate for NYU in 2005 was 6.3%.</p>
<p>my thoughts exactly </p>
<p>if it really were 50% for males i would definitely send out a primary app to NYU right now haha</p>
<p>k, i'll use University of Maryland as an example here because its my state school. I looked at the aamc data, and 51% applicants were female and 49% male. However, the incoming class was 62% female and 38% male.</p>
<p>My question is: Is that just a random fluctuation for 2006 in particular, or is it possible that UMD actually wanted an uneven class?</p>