TABLE III.

Codes Counted in All LORs by Applicant Gender Listed by Frequency

Code	Total Frequency Count	Applicant		p
		Female Frequency Count (n = 246)	Male Frequency Count (n = 404)
Ability	641	283	358	0.03
Academic background	216	87	129	0.44
Achievement	295	126	169	0.05
Agency	237	107	130	0.09
Athletics	142	78	64	<0.001
Authority established	49	19	30	0.89
Awards	221	105	116	0.05
Career choice	10	5	5	0.78
Clinical skills	400	177	223	0.06
Communal	269	122	147	0.15
Community service	113	40	73	0.79
Doubt raiser	36	15	21	0.91
Family	2	1	1	0.72
Fit	63	31	32	0.09
Fund of knowledge	278	109	169	0.86
Future promise	577	233	344	0.56
Grindstone	646	267	379	0.16
Hardship	21	13	8	0.07
Initiative	193	88	105	0.07
Judgment	8	4	4	0.78
Leadership	209	98	111	0.04
Legacy	15	6	9	0.47
Personality traits	338	150	188	0.11
Physical description	7	2	5	0.61
Positive but general	571	235	336	0.23
Presentations	205	93	112	0.05
Receptive to feedback	48	25	23	0.07
Recruitment/ranked highly	341	152	189	0.08
Research	486	185	301	0.78
Scholarship	238	89	149	0.26
Standout adjectives/superlatives	582	260	322	0.06
Strong support	369	139	230	0.94
Teaching/mentoring	93	41	52	0.34
Teamwork	223	95	128	0.26
Technical skills	180	92	88	0.007
Top student	220	97	123	0.26
Work habits/ethic	321	116	205	0.54