<p>Somewhat related:</p>
<p>“The cutoff for summa cum laude, awarded to the top 5 percent of the graduating class, remained at 3.93. Magna cum laude, conferred to the next 10 percent of the class, also held steady at the GPA of 3.85.”</p>
<p>[Yale</a> Daily News - Latin honors generate little commotion](<a href=“http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2009/09/09/latin-honors-generate-little-commotion/]Yale”>http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2009/09/09/latin-honors-generate-little-commotion/)</p>
<p>I wonder what the “medical-school-worthy” GPA is for students who are graduated from Yale. It appears that there are a little bit over 200 applicants from Yale (including alumni) each year. Is it about 3.8 since there are about 200 students (1300 * 15% = 195) who are graduated with 3.85+ GPA? If this is true and you have 1/2 of A’s and 1/2 of A-'s and no B’s, your grades will definitely not be your liability when you apply to medical schools. I think this is a more reasonable goal than 4.0.</p>