Abstract
Medical schools using formal undergrad-uate selectivity measures do so to compensate for the psychometricinadequacies of college grade-point averages, believing that moremeaning can be derived from the GPA if it is attached to a measureof institutional performance (academic rigor) or selectivity (strin-gent admission standards).Researchers have reported mixed results on whether formal mea-sures of undergraduate institution selectivity are useful contributorsto predicting medical student performance.
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