Admission criteria and academic performance in medical school

BMC Medical Education

Table 3 Graduating student's GPA according to student admission path

Admission pathway	All students		Female students		Male students		p**
Admission pathway	N(%)	Mean(SE)^*	n	Mean(SE)	n	Mean(SE)	p**
National Unified Admission(NUA)	112(18%)	3.30(0.04)^b,c,e,f	76	3.29(0.05)	36	3.31(0.07)	0.794
Parallel system(P)	133(21%)	3.01(0.04)^a,c,f	70	3.03(0.05)	63	2.99(0.05)	0.565
International system(I)	141(23%)	2.87(0.04)^a,d	55	2.86(0.05)	86	2.88(0.05)	0.73
Makrumah system(M)	111(18%)	3.25(0.04)^b,c,e,f	77	3.18(0.05)	34	3.42(0.06)	0.004
University Employees Children (UEC)	66(11%)	2.95(0.04)^a,d	41	2.99(0.06)	25	2.87(0.05)	0.179
Others(O)	63(10%)	2.76(0.05)^a,b,d	37	2.76(0.06)	26	2.77(0.08)	0.945
All	626		356		270

^* Statistical comparison between groups were done with ANOVA test with Bonferroni correction: a: significantly different than general admission, b: significantly different than parallel admission, c significantly different than international admission, d significantly different than makrumah, e significantly different than children of University employees, f: significantly different than others
^**Statistical comparison between female and male students were done using Mann–Whitney test

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