AACOMAS Matriculant Profile

2009 Entering Class

Following are summary tables of the 2009 matriculants based on the data entered into the AACOMAS
portal and additional data, provided by the colleges. Matriculant data were matched to the applicant
data supplied to AACOMAS during the application process and of the 4,872 matriculants almost all
(4,846) submitted an application to AACOMAS. Only 26 matriculants have never submitted an
AACOMAS application and these were generally applicants who applied directly from other programs at
the COM. Of the 4,846 matriculants who submitted an application through AACOMAS, 244 applied in
earlier years; one matriculant applied in 2005, five matriculants applied in 2006, 15 matriculants applied
in 2007 and 223 matriculants applied in 2008. One matriculant applied early in the 2010 application
cycle and matriculated into the entering class of 2009 and the remaining 4,601 applied in 2009.

The University of North Texas Health Sciences Center College of Osteopathic Medicine matriculants are
not included in this analysis because the data are not part of the AACOMAS database.

The mean number of applications per matriculant is 8.14.

Matriculants and College Designations 2009
500
450
Number of Matriculants

400
350
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
Number of COMs applied to
*Based on total completed applications

Fifty three percent of matriculants in 2009 were male and 47 percent female.

Gender Number Percent

Female 2,289 47%
Male 2,583 53%
Total 4,872

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The race and ethnicity questions on the AACOMAS application follow the current U.S. Census lead and
ask applicants to mark all that apply. Any applicant who marks Hispanic is counted as being of
Hispanic/Latino ethnicity regardless of any other selections he/she may make. "Multiple Races" and
"Unknown" do not describe selectable categories but are respondent behavior. Temporary residents
and non-U.S. citizens are excluded from race and ethnicity calculations and are counted in the Foreign
category. Although applicants are allowed to select multiple race/ethnicities, the following tables, titled
One Race Response, have, by creating the category Multiple Races, allowed for each applicant to be
allocated to only one category. The table titled Multiple Category Response is a count of the number of
race/ethnicity selections made by the applicants and for this reason there is no significance to the sum
of the race categories in this table.

Race and Ethnicity (One Race Response)

Race/Ethnicity Number Percent

White, non-Hispanic 3,122 70.3%
Hispanic/Latino 200 4.5%
African American, non-Hispanic 124 2.8%
Native American, non-Hispanic 8 0.2%
Pacific Islander, non-Hispanic 5 0.1%
Asian, non-Hispanic 839 18.9%
Multiple Races, non-Hispanic 109 2.5%
Foreign 37 0.8%
Unknown 402
Total 4,846

Race / Ethnicity Matriculant Profile
80.0% 70.3%
70.0%
60.0%
50.0%
40.0%
30.0% 18.9%
20.0%
10.0% 4.5% 2.8% 2.5% 0.8%
0.2% 0.1%
0.0%

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 Race and Ethnicity (One Race Response) by Gender

Number of Applicants Female Male Total

White, non-Hispanic 1,407 1,715 3,122
Hispanic/Latino 97 103 200
African American, non-Hispanic 83 41 124
Native American, non-Hispanic 3 5 8
Pacific Islander, non-Hispanic 2 3 5
Asian, non-Hispanic 397 442 839
Multiple Races, non-Hispanic 65 44 109
Foreign 18 19 37
Unknown 197 205 402
Total 2,269 2,577 4,846

Race and Ethnicity (One Race Response) by Gender

Percent of Total Applicants Female Male Total

White, non-Hispanic 31.7% 38.6% 70.3%
Hispanic/Latino 2.2% 2.3% 4.5%
African American, non-Hispanic 1.9% 0.9% 2.8%
Native American, non-Hispanic 0.1% 0.1% 0.2%
Pacific Islander
Islander, non
non-Hispanic
Hispanic 0 0%
0.0% 0 1%
0.1% 0 1%
0.1%
Asian, non-Hispanic 8.9% 9.9% 18.9%
Multiple Races, non-Hispanic 1.5% 1.0% 2.5%
Foreign 0.4% 0.4% 0.8%
Total 46.6% 53.4%

Note: Percentage calculations do not include applicants with unidentified gender or unknown
race/ethnicity.

80%
Race / Ethnicity Matriculant Profile by Gender
70%

60%
Male Female
50% 38.6%

40%

30%

20%
31.7% 9.9%
10% 1.0% 0.4%
2.3% 0.9% 0.1% 0.1%
0.1% 8.9% 1.5% 0.4%
0% 2.2% 1.9% 0.0%
White Hispanic African  Native Pacific  Asian Multiple  Foreign
Latino American American Islander Races

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 Race /Ethnicity (Multiple Category Response)

Race/Ethnicity Number
White, non-Hispanic 3,325
Hispanic/Latino 200
African American, non-Hispanic 140
Native American, non-Hispanic 36
Pacific Islander, non-Hispanic 11
Asian, non-Hispanic 928
Foreign 37
Unduplicated Total 4,846

Unduplicated Underrepresented Minorites --- 369 matriculants --- 8 percent.

Underrepresented minorities includes applicants of Hispanic/Latino ethnicity, African American, Native
American and Pacific Islander race.

Age Number Percent

20 and younger 35 0.7%
21 - 25 3,702 76.0%
26 - 30 875 18.0%
31 - 40 221 4.5%
41 - 50 33 0.7%
51 andd older
ld 2 0.04%
0 04%
Unidentified 4
Total 4,872

Note: Age as of July 1, 2009.

Minimum age 18 years

Maximum age 56 years

Mean matriculant age --- 24.4 years.

Median matriculant age --- 23 years.

AACOMAS may calculate up to three sets of GPAs for each applicant - undergraduate only,
undergraduate and post-baccalaureate, and all course work - although in many cases there is no
difference among them. We have provided means and standard deviations for both the science and
non-science GPAs as well as the overall GPA. The data has been broken-down by gender and by race
and ethnicty.
GPA were calculated on data from 4,846 sets of data.

GPA Science Non-science Overall

Mean 4 year FR - SR 3.35 3.58 3.48
SD 0.43 0.30 0.29
Mean Undergrad FR-SR, PB 3.39 3.58 3.49
SD 0.33 0.29 0.27
Mean All including graduate 3.41 3.59 3.49
SD 0.31 0.28 0.26

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Undergraduate GPA by Gender Science Non-science Overall
Mean - Female 3.37 3.65 3.52
SD - Female 0.42 0.26 0.27
Mean - Male 3.33 3.52 3.44
SD - Male 0.43 0.31 0.30

3.80
Undergraduate GPA by Gender
3.70 3.65
Female Male
3.60
3.52 3.52
3.50 3.44
3.40 3.37
3.33
3.30
All All
3.20 3.58 3.48
All
3.10 3.35

3.00
Science Non‐science Overall

Undergraduate GPA by Race Science Non-science Overall

Mean - White, non-Hispanic 3.37 3.59 3.50
SD - White, non-Hispanic 0.43 0.30 0.29
Mean - Hispanic/Latino 3.28 3.51 3.40
SD - Hispanic/Latino 0.33 0.30 0.28
Mean - African American 3.18 3.48 3.33
SD - African American 0.39 0.30 0.32
Mean - Native American 3.45 3.66 3.61
SD - Native American 0.39 0.15 0.17
Mean - Pacific Islander 3.24 3.63 3.45
SD - Pacific Islander 0.09 0.11 0.10
Mean - Asian 3.31 3.58 3.45
SD - Asian 0.38 0.28 0.27
Mean - Multiple Races 3.32 3.51 3.42
SD - Multiple Races 0.39 0.34 0.31
Mean - Foreign 3.39 3.59 3.54
SD - Foreign 0.68 0.32 0.32

AACOMAS received MCAT score data from 4,771 applicants. In cases where we received more than
one set of scores for a particular applicant we have included the set with the highest total score. We
have provided the mean, standard deviation and median for each section of the MCAT as well as the
total MCAT score. The median MCAT scores are calculated over all the individual scores and therefore
the median of the total is the median of all the individual total MCAT scores. We have provided a break-
down of the mean scores with standard deviations by gender and race/ethnicity for each of the MCAT
sections.

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MCAT scores were calculated on data from 4,771 sets of scores.

Biological Physical
MCAT Scores Verbal Total
Science Science
Mean 8.59 9.22 8.38 26.19
SD 1.74 1.43 1.62 3.27
Median 9 9 8 26

Distribution of Writing Scores Score Number Percent

J 9 0.2%
K 85 1.8%
L 296 6.2%
M 1,142 23.9%
N 506 10.6%
O 717 15.0%
P 526 11.0%
Q 943 19.8%
R 390 8.2%
S 141 3.0%
T 16 0.3%
X 0 0.0%

Biological Physical
MCAT Scores by Gender Verbal Total
Science Science
Mean - Female 8.61 9.01 8.01 25.63
SD - Female 1.72 1.40 1.47 3.04
Mean - Male 8.58 9.41 8.70 26.68
SD - Male 1.76 1.42 1.67 3.39

MCAT Scores by Gender
10.00 Female Male
9.41
9.50
9.01
9.00 8.61 8.70
8.58
8.50
8.01
8.00
7.50 All
All 9.22 All
7.00
8.59 8.38
6.50
6.00
Verbal Biological Science Physical Science

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 Biological Physical
MCAT Scores by Race/Ethnicity Verbal Total
Science Science
Mean - White, non-Hispanic 8.75 9.23 8.26 26.24
SD - White, non-Hispanic 1.65 1.40 1.58 3.17
Mean - Hispanic/Latino 8.11 8.75 7.95 24.81
SD - Hispanic/Latino 1.92 1.42 1.39 3.37
Mean - African American 7.10 7.61 7.06 21.77
SD - African American 2.11 1.77 1.53 3.72
Mean - Native American 8.50 9.00 8.25 25.75
SD - Native American 2.07 1.60 1.67 3.77
Mean - Pacific Islander 7.20 9.20 8.60 25.00
SD - Pacific Islander 0.84 1.30 2.19 3.08
Mean - Asian 8.26 9.46 9.01 26.74
SD - Asian 1.79 1.35 1.58 3.01
Mean - Multiple Races 8.67 9.35 8.32 26.34
SD - Multiple Races 1.83 1.53 1.68 3.43
Mean - Foreign 8.17 9.64 9.50 27.31
SD - Foreign 2.04 1.20 2.26 3.50

More than one in three matriculants have a family member who is a DO or MD.

Family Member is a DO or MD Number Percent

Yes 1,764 36.4%
No 3,082 63.6%
Total 4,846

Baccalaureate major – We have grouped all majors that were reported as part of a baccalaureate
degree into five groups: Life Sciences, Social Sciences (incl. Psyschology & Education), Physical
Sciences (incl. Mathematics & Engineering), Arts & Humanities and Other. The number of majors may
be greater than the number of applicants since applicants can complete more than one baccalaureate
degree and may earn a double major.

Baccalaureate Degree Major Number Percent

Life Sciences 3,947 66%
Social Sciences 580 10%
Physical Sciences 457 8%
Arts & Humanties 435 7%
Other 528 9%

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Listed are the top 20 undergraduate degree granting feeder colleges providing the largest number of
matriculants.

Institution Name City Matriculants

Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 125
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI 105
Brigham Young University Provo, UT 90
University of Florida Gainesville, FL 67
University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 63
Penn State University Park University Park, PA 53
University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA 51
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey New Brunswick, NJ 51
University of California-Irvine Irvine, CA 45
State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 43
University of California-Davis Davis, CA 42
Ohio State University - Columbus Columbus, OH 42
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL 40
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, VA 40
University of California-San Diego La Jolla, CA 39
University of Washington Seattle, WA 39
University of Central Florida Orlando, FL 39
University of Oklahoma Norman Campus Norman, OK 38
University of Miami Coral Gables, FL 37
Wayne State University Detroit MI
Detroit, 37

Only 0.8 percent of matriculants are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents of the U.S. and of those 76
percent are Canadian citizens.

Citizenship Number Percent

U.S. Citizen 4,653 96%
Temporary Resident 10 0.2%
Permanent Resident 156 3%
Non Citizen 27 0.6%
Total 4,846

The permanent country data piece is collected separately from citizenship data.

Permanent Country Number

Canada 13
Taiwan 2
Japan 1
South Korea 1
United States 4,829
Total 4,846

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 Percent of US
US States and Territories Number
Matriculants
Alabama 34 0.7%
Alaska 8 0.2%
Arkansas 15 0.3%
Arizona 86 1.8%
California 466 9.7%
Colorado 121 2.5%
Connecticut 38 0.8%
Delaware 15 0.3%
District of Columbia 2 0.0%
Florida 292 6.0%
Georgia 81 1.7%
Hawaii 11 0.2%
Iowa 80 1.7%
Idaho 46 1.0%
Illinois 210 4.3%
Indiana 69 1.4%
Kansas 44 0.9%
Kentucky 65 1.3%
Louisiana 10 0.2%
Massachusetts 83 1.7%
Maryland 56 1.2%
Maine 27 0.6%
Michigan 421 8.7%
Minnesota 71 1 5%
1.5%
Missouri 130 2.7%
Mississippi 11 0.2%
Montana 21 0.4%
North Carolina 73 1.5%
North Dakota 9 0.2%
Nebraska 37 0.8%
New Hampshire 14 0.3%
New Jersey 221 4.6%
New Mexico 12 0.2%
Nevada 22 0.5%
New York 415 8.6%
Ohio 229 4.7%
Oklahoma 108 2.2%
Oregon 56 1.2%
Pennsylvania 393 8.1%
Puerto Rico 1 0.0%
Rhode Island 17 0.4%
South Carolina 30 0.6%
South Dakota 13 0.3%
Tennessee 81 1.7%
Texas 98 2.0%

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Utah 124 2.6%
Virginia 130 2.7%
Virgin Islands 0 0.0%
Vermont 5 0.1%
Washington 93 1.9%
Wisconsin 75 1.6%
West Virginia 53 1.1%
WyomIng 7 0.1%
Military 090-098 0 0.0%

Total US matriculants 4,829

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 USA Matriculant Profile 2009-10

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93
NH
WA

21 5 27
9 71 ME
MT VT
ND MN
56
OR
83
46 75 415 MA
ID 13 WI NY
7 SD 421
WY 17
MI
RI
80 393
37 IA PA 38
NE 229 221 CT
22 OH NJ
124 210 69
466 NV
UT 121 IL IN 53
CA 130 15
CO 44 WV
130 VA DE
KS MO 65
KY 2
73 56 DC
81 NC MD
108 TN
86
12 OK 15 30
AZ
NM AR SC
81
11 34 GA
MS AL
98 10
TX
LA
8
AK
292
FL

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HI
1
PR