only tangentially. The med school will be more familiar with your accomplishments and your letter writers which means they have a better understanding of what it all means (but double edged sword - if you’re lacking things they’re used to seeing it will hurt more) but it’s not like they’re going to skip over applicants from other schools because they’d rather have their own alumni.
Letters +38 score + 3.8 GPA should get a Vanderbilt student into their med school for sure. 
Is this true ? ^
No.
Yeah, I don’t think my friends got that high of an MCAT score and still got in, probably because of EC’s.
Since the new exam will be scaled from 472 to 528, what do you think is equivalent to a 35+ on the old MCAT , scorewise?
Whatever score has the same percentile as a 35
https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/md-admissions/selection-factors
I read it as 12.24x3 = 36.72 for someone to be a competitive applicant unless the 12.24 reflects only one specific section they are valuing more than the others.
Btw, I heard MD schools don’t look at the new grade if you retake a class, but DO schools do? And how do they each look at GPA?
MD schools will average your grades i.e. both the grades will be considered, DO schools will replace the grade completely.
"AMCAS includes all attempts of repeated courses in GPA calculations, even if they are not included in the school’s GPA calculations. "
http://www.aamc.org/students/amcas/amcas2009instructionmanual072808.pdf
DO program allow grade replacement. Only the newest grade will be included in GPA/sGPA calculations. (That, of course, assumes the new class has identical content and has equal or greater credits than the original class.)
MD programs do not allow grade replacement. ALL grades are considered when calculating GPA/sGPA. If you take the same course twice basically your grade will be averaged, but worth twice as many credits. (So, if you receive an C in the original and A in the repeated class, and each course is worth 4 credits, the net effect would be like have 8 credits of Bs in your GPA.)
Also for allopathic schools (MD), the expectation is that any repeated class should received an A grade since you’ve studied the material before.
On that note, are there any major differences between MD and DO programs?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_MD_and_DO_in_the_United_States basically the same
If someone fails all their classes freshmen year at undergrad, is it safe to say that they won’t be able to get into an MD school, even if they retake those classes?
If someone fails all their classes, it is safe to say that they would find themselves on academic dismissal.
What about when they return to school?
Are we still under the thread of
“Harvard medical school” ?
If not, please start another thread!
I guess to bring it back before we all move on to another thread:
I feel pretty confident in saying if you fail all your classes freshman year, HMS is out of the question except as a non-trad student (i.e. starting medical school at age 27 or later either because you spent 5 years doing stuff after college or delayed college after your abysmal start)
Fail implies 1.0 GPA. One can forget college.
Surely a student who failed all their classes their first year of college could take a year or two off, go to a community college for 2 years, then transfer to a 4 year college and graduate with a degree, no?
Also isn’t failing a 0.0? I thought a D was a 1.0?