And any potential premed needs to have a Plan B. In my son’s case he is also a CompSci minor at WashU and considering going on the Computational Biology track.
Getting 3.7+ GPA in schools such as WashU (or JHU) is NOT easy because of the caliber of your peer students and the limited A’s in BCPM (sGPA) pre-med classes. Most pre-med students could end up with 3.5 or less GPA there, which is NOT that competitive at all (even for their in-state med schools).
Emory is “better” than WashU for pre-meds for your question comparing the two schools.
@Andorvw
Does Emory have a higher average premed gpa
Thanks
For average pre-med students, Emory is “better” in the sense of getting higher GPA.
OP, did your kid choose WashU or Emory?
WashU is more transparent regarding their med school results, showing acceptance rate by GPA and MCAT. IMO all schools should make this data public. https://wustl.app.box.com/s/1jp60uqzhcxte4xybktahqo3jl77y0dc
This data includes results to both DO and MD schools. It does not include applicants from Washu’s business and engineering schools, which I think is odd (and possibly concerning, because it makes one think that the relative acceptance rates of those students are lower, perhaps even below average).
OP, you will never be able to really get the data you need, as no one has gone through both schools pre-med curriculums. Neither school posts ‘average’ GPAs for med school applicants. Where a given school falls on the cut-throat to collaborative continuum is subjective and impossible to parse out only premed students. Suffice it to say it will require significant effort to earn a 3.7 GPA or sGPA at both schools. Good luck.
If your student ends up applying to medical school, the only numbers that will matter will be YOUR kid’s GPA and MCAT scores. The school averages don’t matter at all.
And the average GPA at a college is not going to give you YOUR kid’s GPA or MCAT score.
Notwithstanding WashU’s public statistics-which don’t include a number of potential applicants-it is important to remember that there is no agreed definition about who is or is not “pre-med” for purposes of published statistics. In the WashU case, the numbers are not comprehensive, excluding two of the schools at WashU. In addition, these numbers only count those who applied to medical school for the first time, which would be after junior year at the earliest. So how many pre-meds were accepted at Wash U as freshmen? Or finished first year and didn’t ultimately apply to medical school? Or second year, etc? Or applied years after graduation?
What about second or third time applicants?
Unless and until there is an agreed definition of pre-med student, any published numbers are subject to manipulation and are not particularly helpful. In OP’s case, the question is regarding an incoming freshmen; WashU doesn’t tell us how many of those wash out(sorry, couldn’t help it) from pre-med long before the time comes to apply to medical school.
So the most direct answer to OP’s question is: who knows? There’s no definition of pre-med, and no school publishes the number of freshmen pre-med students, and then the number of those students who are still at that school and ultimately apply.