<p>No, I’m not but I have sat in a graduate school admission office before and they looked at stuff like extracurricular activities, work experience, GPA e.t.c but I never heard anyone say: "hey he is just 20, he is too immature to attend graduate school even though he go a 3.8, lets reject him so that he can take a gap year of 1-3 years. that would definitely do him some good. But lets take the mature 37 year old with a lower GPA and less extracurricular activities, he must be mature since he is older. older= maturity.</p>
<p>work experience which makes most applicants is very , I agree is important when in business schools but not so much for medical school. Except if you worked significantly in the health sector, your work experience is useless for medicine.</p>
<p>So the really important question is why people think being older means you are more mature. Following from that, the case of the above student is an isolated case, a lot of 20 year old and even lower get into medical school. That is why the age given is referred to as an average. The age range in med schools is around 19-47 with the majority of people being around 23-25. </p>
<p>Also there is a student on SDN that is 18 and got into a top school. His GPA is not even over 3.8 but applied early. But his case is also a specific case and I would not use it to generalize about medical school admissions. And concerning the question "if i was on a medical school admissions committee, most people who give advise here have not been accepted into college and I did not say my point was the standard but used the language “I think that age does not factor in” not that “I am sure age does not factor in.”</p>