Table 1.

Demographic data of Not Accepted applicants compared to Accepted applicants

Feature	Not Accepted (n = 151)	Accepted (n = 50)	Statistics
Age at Application (years, mean ± SD)	39.02 ± 19.11	21.03 ± 18.83	t = 5.78** Cohen’s d = 0.94
Age at Symptom Onset (years, mean ± SD)	30.31 ± 18.75	11.11 ± 18.0	t = 6.3** Cohen’s d = 1.0
Duration of Illness (years, mean ± SD)	8.71 ± 9.91	9.92 ± 10.06	t = −0.75 Cohen’s d = − 0.12
Proportion of Lifetime Being Ill (percentage)	28.31 ± 29.79	66.69 ± 37.08	t = −6.6** Cohen’s d = −1.14
Length of Application Review (months, mean ± SD)	3.4 ± 1.73	2.78 ± 1.76	t = 2.17* Cohen’s d = 0.35
Gender
Female	79 (52%)	26 (52%)	FET = 1.0
Male	72 (48%)	24 (48%)
Race
White	128 (84.7%)	42 (84%)	χ2 = 0.10
African-American	7 (4.6%)	2 (4%)
Other	16 (10.7%)	6 (12%)
Ethnicity
Hispanic	11 (7.3%)	5 (10%)	χ2 = 0.38
Non-Hispanic	124 (82.1%)	40 (80%)
Not reported	16 (10.6%)	5 (10%)

SD Standard deviation, FET Fisher’s exact test

All t-tests were two-tailed *p < 0.05 **p < 0.001