<p>What do medical admissions think about these kind of students? I attend Johns Hopkins and I have ~3.3 (C's and B-'s in a few classes) but my MCAT is a 35... Is it a bad thing for students to have low GPA/high MCAT's or vice versa?</p>
<p>Low/high is worse than high/high but better than low/low, obviously. It would be better if you were a little more balanced (3.5/33 would probably be better), but what's the relevance? Give it your best shot and see what happens.</p>
<p>I've looked at Cornell's med school placement rates versus certain GPA ranges and MCATs</p>
<p>The trend I've seen is that GPA 3.3+ and MCAT 30+ are pretty much guaranteed to get in somewhere.</p>
<p>If MCATs were below 30, your chances were modest but nothing spectacular unless your GPA was 3.6+ (in some cases, 3.8-4.0 GPAs had below 25 MCAT and still got into med school). GPAs of 3.0-3.3 generally could not get into med school unless their MCATs were 30+</p>
<p>GPAs below 3.0 had placement rates of <5% regardless of MCAT score (yeah... kinda sucks to the guy who had a 2.8-2.9 and an MCAT of 36)</p>
<p>JHU might be slightly different from Cornell, but it the general trends should still be the same.</p>
<p>I think you have a good shot at med school with a 3.3/35 from JHU if the rest of your app is in order and you apply broadly.</p>
<p>Sorry, he has a good shot at being admitted to at least one place. I definitely miscommunicated on that one.</p>
<p>Thank you very much, everyone. Also, my GPA has been increasing in an upward trend from below 3.0 my freshman year to 3.25 sophomore year and over 3.5 junior year. It mostly was because I had trouble picking the right major and the the right combination of classes for me. Will med schools take this into consideration? Thanks again.</p>
<p>Upward trends are better than downward trends.</p>
<p>^^ lol... I second that... my upward trend currently en route and is very.... extreme :p </p>
<p>used to have a C average after first semester freshman year... then pulled myself together and almost made Dean's List second semester (sure my average still sucks, but at least my GPA jumped :p )</p>
<p>I had an overall GPA of 3.2 with MCAT of 35; got 4 acceptances(Emory, Penn State, USUHS, UT-San Antonio, and turned down several interviews). So, yeah, more than possible. I had a BCPM GPA of 3.5, my C+'s and B-'s were all in humanities courses.... Davidson, like Cornell and JHU is regarded as a grade-deflated college and I believe that was taken into account to some degree by adcoms.</p>
<p>^^Wait, did you get accepted into the MD/PHD program or just the MD program?</p>