This suggests that for medical school admissions, the grades that you get in college matter far more than where you go to college, except to the extent that where you go to college impacts your grades and MCAT scores.
What about the obvious confounder that students from elite schools will apply to more selective med schools? This could mitigate the visible effect of undergraduate education quality quite a lot.
I’m not sure that I follow. Are you saying that students who go to more selective colleges aim too high with respect to where they go for medical schools, and don’t apply to safety schools?
No, I was assuming the statistics counted an “acceptance” as one school accepting an applicant, in which case the fact that elite students applied to more elite med schools would be sufficient. But it looks as though they’re instead counting an acceptance as any school accepting an applicant.
What about the obvious confounder that students from elite schools will apply to more selective med schools? This could mitigate the visible effect of undergraduate education quality quite a lot.
I’m not sure that I follow. Are you saying that students who go to more selective colleges aim too high with respect to where they go for medical schools, and don’t apply to safety schools?
No, I was assuming the statistics counted an “acceptance” as one school accepting an applicant, in which case the fact that elite students applied to more elite med schools would be sufficient. But it looks as though they’re instead counting an acceptance as any school accepting an applicant.