<p>“In order to know something objective about the undergrad school’s influence on success at med school acceptance, how about taking the normalized difference of SAT/ACT at entrance and MCAT at exit of those who were accepted to some med school?”</p>
<p>That would be great so long as you can persuade the entire student body, or a statistically significant random sample, to take the MCAT, so that the MCAT test-takers do not represent a biased sample of the underlying student population there, as is undoubtedly the typical case.</p>
<p>Interestingly, I now see that the quote I cited in #45 has been subsequently changed, months after it was posted, by it’s poster to be more completely institution non-specific. For what that’s worth. Must have taken some heat for it from the “protectors of the faith”, after I referenced it on his school’s sub-forum previously. He retained the gist of it however, as a general matter. And the original post was as I quoted.</p>