Table 2.

 Demographic characteristics of students on graduate entry courses (GEC), pre-medical, and foundation courses compared with students on traditional courses, and of traditional students attending new and established schools, 2002-6. Figures are differences in means (for age) or odds ratios (95% confidence interval), P values

	GEC v traditional	Pre-medical v traditional	Foundation v traditional	New v established schools
Age (years)	6.9 (6.8 to 7.1), <0.001	3.1 (2.9 to 3.4), <0.001	1.6 (1.2 to 1.9), <0.001	2.5 (2.4 to 2.7), <0.001
Sex (male v female)	1.08 (0.98 to 1.18), 0.107	0.77 (0.63 to 0.94), 0.010	0.95 (0.76 to 1.21), 0.699	1.03 (0.94 to 1.11), 0.560
Ethnicity (white v non-white)	3.74 (3.27 to 4.28), <0.001	2.54 (1.95 to 3.31), <0.001	0.21 (0.16 to 0.28), <0.001	1.55 (1.41 to 1.71), <0.001
Socioeconomic background (higher v non-higher)	0.60 (0.54 to 0.66), <0.001	0.60 (0.49 to 0.73), <0.001	0.13 (0.09 to, 0.20), <0.001	0.67 (0.61 to 0.73), <0.001