Table 2. Proportions (%) of the 16 MBTI types for 706 students admitted into the University of California Davis classes of veterinary medicine during the fall of 2017 through the fall of 2021
MBTI type Class of 2017 Class of 2018 Class of 2019 Class of 2020 Class of 2021 All classes
ENFJ 7.3 3.6 7.1 6.3 4.8 5.8
ENFP 6.6 5.1 5.7 2.1 7.5 5.4
ENTJ 8.8 7.2 1.4 2.1 3.4 4.5
ENTP 2.9 2.9 4.3 2.1 4.1 3.3
ESFJ 6.6 7.2 7.1 13.2 10.2 8.9
ESFP 2.2 5.1 2.9 4.2 2.0 3.3
ESTJ 6.6 15.9 10.0 6.9 10.9 10.1
ESTP 5.8 2.2 11.4 2.1 5.4 5.4
INFJ 3.6 2.2 5.7 5.6 6.1 4.7
INFP 3.6 2.9 5.7 7.6 2.7 4.5
INTJ 4.4 7.2 6.4 11.8 4.8 6.9
INTP 8.0 6.5 2.9 3.5 4.8 5.1
ISFJ 10.9 8.7 8.6 8.3 9.5 9.2
ISFP 2.9 2.2 2.9 3.5 3.4 3.0
ISTJ 15.3 18.1 13.6 16.7 15.6 15.9
ISTP 4.4 2.9 4.3 4.2 4.8 4.1
Total number of students 137 138 140 144 147 706

E=Extraversion; I=Introversion; S=Sensing; N=Intuition; T=Thinking; F=Feeling; J=Judging; and P=Perceiving A student's MBTI type is the result of the interaction among the four preference pairs resulting in the identification of one preference from each preference pair. For instance, a combination of Introversion (I), sensing (S), feeling (F) and perceiving (P) describes a MBTI preference of ISFP by a student. There was no evidence of trends (χ2 (60, N = 706) = 76.51, p = 0.074) of the MBTI types among the 5 classes.

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