Students can only hope that any gaps in the admitted class are a good match with their profiles.
With 300 students in the admitted class, the school is the largest osteopathic medical school in the country.
The university takes in the first 75 percent of its admitted class by the top 10 percent rule and then submits the final quarter to a holistic evaluation.
Ms. Hansen: It's hard to create a template for the perfect applicant, as each school looks for different characteristics for their admitted class.
This type of holistic review, however, gives admission officers the flexibility to offer admission to students who present academic credentials that might fall slightly below the admitted class mean yet who also bring other skills, talents, perspectives, and life experiences to our college campuses, enriching the entire incoming class in the process.
Students admitted with large preferences, on the other hand, enter with credentials placing them near the bottom of their admitted class, and often struggle to succeed in the more difficult STEM classes.
That is because, this argument goes, students who go on to earn STEM degrees almost always enter college with credentials placing them in the top third of the admitted class.
They cite research that conclusively shows that, at institutions from community colleges to world-class universities, able and motivated students of all races can and do thrive academically when they enter with credentials that generally match those of the admitted class.
But their share of the total admitted class fell slightly to 25% for whites and 34.3% for Asian Americans.
The result is a mix of historic demographics, tactical admissions recruiting and financial aid modeling that work together to form the basis of an admitted class at any selective 4-year college, whether public or private.
In the last year, 25% of the admitted class received an 800 on their SAT for both math and critical thinking.
