Academic History Dashboards

Overview 

Academic History Dashboards provide a visual representation of applicants' academic history-related information. 

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Working with and Downloading Data

As you review the following dashboards, refer to the Working with Dashboard Data page for specific information on:

 

Colleges Attended

Using this dashboard, you can identify your top domestic and international feeder schools. 

Example of a Colleges Attended dashboard with various bar charts    

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Applicants by High School Attended

Using this dashboard, you can identify the top high schools your applicants graduated from. 

Example of an Applicants by High School Attended dashboard with various bar charts

Note: this dashboard only includes applicants who indicated in the application that they graduated from high school. Applicants who have not graduated are not included. 

DAT Distribution

This dashboard provides a breakdown of DAT scores. 

Example of a DAT Distribution dashboard with various line graphs

GRE Distribution

This dashboard provides a breakdown of GRE scores. 

Example of a GRE Distribution dashboard with various bar charts    

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You can use the Score Type for Verbal and Quantitative Reasoning filter to change the way multiple test attempts are displayed. 

MCAT Distribution

This dashboard provides a breakdown of MCAT scores. 

 Example of an MCAT Distribution dashboard with various boxplots

Understanding the Boxplot

The dashboard uses box-and-whisker plots, or boxplots, to show distributions of data. The name refers to the two parts of the plot:

  1. The box, which contains the median of the data (median is the number that is at the midpoint of an ordered data set) along with the first and third quartiles (25% less than and 25% greater than the median).
  2. The whiskers, which typically represents data within 1.5 times the interquartile range (the difference between the first and third quartiles). 

A visual breakdown of each part of a boxplot

MCAT Filters

The dashboard includes a Percentile filter, as well as three additional MCAT filters: 

  • Test Score slider: allows you to filter by a test score range by either adjusting the slider or typing the start and/or end score for the desired range.
  • MCAT Score Type: allows you to filter by test scores submitted before 2015 or 2015 and later (based on MCAT changing the test format to include a different number of subjects and test score scales).
    • Old MCAT Scaled Score: a number between 3–45, with a 50th percentile score of approximately 25. Includes scores such as BiologicalSciences, PhysicalSciences, and VerbalReasoning.
    • New MCAT Scaled Score: a number between 472–528, with a 50th percentile score that hovers around 500. Includes scores such as CPBScore, CARSScore, and BBFLScore.
  • Official status: allows you to filter by official or unofficial test scores. Official scores are test scores sent to the CAS directly from the administrator of the test (AAMC, ETS, ADA, etc.). Unofficial test scores are reported by applicants in the application.

NBDE Results

This dashboard provides a breakdown of NBDE results.

Example of an NBDE Results dashboard with various bar charts and tabular data

TOEFL Score Distribution 

This dashboard provides a breakdown of TOEFL scores. 

Example of a TOEFL Score Distribution dashboard with various bar charts