MCAT Scores for Medical Students by Gender
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Professor Mark J. Perry's Blog for Economics and Finance
Sunday, June 27, 2010
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- Name: Mark J. Perry
- Location: Washington, D.C., United States
Dr. Mark J. Perry is a professor of economics and finance in the School of Management at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan. Perry holds two graduate degrees in economics (M.A. and Ph.D.) from George Mason University near Washington, D.C. In addition, he holds an MBA degree in finance from the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. In addition to a faculty appointment at the University of Michigan-Flint, Perry is also a visiting scholar at The American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.
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4 Comments:
Do we have the data on graduation rates by these categories?
The graduation rates is a great comment. If women graduate at a higher rate than men, then the schools are paying more per male doctor than per female doctor.
From that same data, women have a slightly higher GPA entering medical school than men. My recollection from my teaching days is that GPA is a better indicator of performance than are standardized tests.
An indicator that women were being preferred over men would be if the medical schools were willing to admit women who graduated at a lower rate than men. Looking at the graduate and enrollment data at http://www.aamc.org/data/facts/enrollmentgraduate/start.htm the best proxy we can think of for this is graduates/enrollment as the years go by. From this we see higher rates of graduation for women (21.6%) than men (20.8%) in 2009. It would appear admitted women have a slightly better chance of graduating than admitted men.
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