An experimental, analytic computer-based methodology for determining the interview status of medical school applicants was tested in a limited setting and provided encouraging results. As a consequence of comparing the results of two alternate strategies for determining the interviewability of applicants, certain refinements were indicated which would improve the predictive accuracy of the experimental procedure. Further, questions relating to the inter-rater reliability of the judgments of a group of screeners were raised as potential sources of error in the screening process. Although additional experimentation with the methods reported in the study was indicated before general applications could be recommended, results of this study pointed to the potential usefulness of an analytical, computer-based methodology as a valuable aid in processing undergraduate student records of medical school applicants.
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Mattson et al. (1973) studied this question.