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You can confirm these numbers, they are public, and gathered annually by various administrative bodies involved in the standardized tests and credentialling of the professional schools.



I don't doubt that there are 140k premed undergrads or x million college students.

I doubt that there is any reliable estimate of how many people would apply for med school or law school BUT FOR their having to take a standardized test.


All I am saying is there should be some scalable if crude method of quickly ranking new software engineers by aptitude as a pre filter for interviews as there is for doctors and lawyers. it’s just an opinion.




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