Sixth formers gamble over medical school choices

BMJ 1995;310:1531 (10 June)

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Sixth formers gamble over medical school choices

EDITOR,--Aneez Esmail and colleagues surveyed the acceptancesof A level students by medical schools in 1992, comparing whiteapplicants and those from ethnic minorities.¹ The same data,if the two groups are amalgamated, give the overall ratio ofapplicants to places for each medical school. These ratios are,of course, the chances of an applicant with a given A levelscore being accepted by a particular medical school, assumingthat the applicants to the various schools are comparable.

Let us take an example. A sixth form student who in 1992 hada high A level score of 26-30 points (A=10, B=8, C=6; maximumscore 30) stood a much greater chance of being accepted at Belfast(where 56.8% of such applicants (130/229) were accepted), Cambridge(34.5% (196/568) or Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals (31.9% (123/385)than at Nottingham (9.2% (100/1091), St Mary's Hospital (10.1%(44/434), or the Royal Free Hospital (10.5% . . . [Full text of this article]

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