Average number of points of accepted students?

[jl919352]

I was wondering if anyone had any idea what was the range in the number of "points" of accepted in province students at Dalhousie. By points I mean the calculated points appointed to students for GPA, MCAT, supplemental, and interview.

[Suprachiasmatic]

Yeah, those numbers are about right.

General rule of thumb will probably be: Mid 60s will get you on the WL, Mid 70s will probably guarantee acceptance, but as Nova Scotia said, there will be some variance.

[towel]

How is the z-score calculated? The comments from last year are a little all over the place.

Thanks

[an_emo_meter]

http://www.springerlink.com/content/w7q454nj577642l0/

And in case that link doesn't work for people who aren't on a university library system, it's called: Where Judgement Fails: Pitfalls in the Selection Process for Medical Personnel by Kevin W. Eva and Harold I. Reiter

Good luck. I believe that you need more information than they gave us last year in order to calculate your z-score, but it's basically how you did on each section compared to everyone else. It's a way of compensating for different variances among measures.

[ryacha]

Originally Posted by towel

How is the z-score calculated? The comments from last year are a little all over the place.

Thanks

Despite a lot of effort from people on the WL last year the z-scores were never a helpful indication. Unfortunately I think this is because there is too much missing info to use it properly.

Regarding the initial post, for the OOP students out there I had just shy of 78 points/100 overall and I didn't get off the WL. It seemed to move a little less than average last year, so that may be a little off. Unfortunately I don't know much about IP.

[towel]

Originally Posted by an_emo_meter

http://www.springerlink.com/content/w7q454nj577642l0/

And in case that link doesn't work for people who aren't on a university library system, it's called: Where Judgement Fails: Pitfalls in the Selection Process for Medical Personnel by Kevin W. Eva and Harold I. Reiter

Good luck. I believe that you need more information than they gave us last year in order to calculate your z-score, but it's basically how you did on each section compared to everyone else. It's a way of compensating for different variances among measures.

Thanks for the link. I don't have a background in stats, but the z-scoring in the article seems to solve the problem with variance because the GPA and ABS were supposed to be weighted equally in that example. In Dal's scoring system, it's my understanding that the Academic (25), Supplementary (35), and Interview (40) are all weighted differently, so why account for variance to ensure that each contributes equally to the score when they're not supposed to contribute equally anyway? I have obviously missed some major point here/have the whole understanding of z-scores messed up. I still find it confusing. I won't worry about it now though anyway! Thanks again for posting the link.

[jl919352]

I appreciate the info. Thx guys!