Premed GPA question

<p>I am currently a junior at Cornell and will have around a 3.75-3.78 cumulative GPA and 3.7 Science GPA. Do you think that is good enough for a top med school? The reason I am asking is, because if it is not, I am considering taking a year off before med school so that med school's could see my senior year grades as well (which I think will be higher since I am done with the prereqs.) What do you think? Do you think doing this would increase my chances?</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

<p>....your gpa isn't the only thing that will get you into med school. i don't think senior year will really increase your gpa, but you can definately beef up your resume, study for the MCATs, prep for the application proccess all in a years time. most importantly you should apply when you feel ready</p>

<p>josh</p>

<p>Honeypot... I think I just saw you post this same question on SDN, lol.</p>

<p>My opinion is that this is a competitive GPA. Consider the activities you do; do you think you have some good ECs like research/volunteering that you have done consistently in college? If so, I think you should apply this coming cycle. If you think that taking a year off would alllow you to bring up the GPA as well as significantly improve your activities list, it may be a worthwhile consideration.</p>

<p>What you should do is get yourself this book, it's callled</p>

<p>Medical School Admission Requirements (MSAR)
It's essentially a book of data and statistics published by the AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges), which has the average GPA (science/non) average MCAT for each med school's matriculants for the past 2-3 years. Every med-school in the American and Canadian system is featured.</p>

<p>It's really quite useful if you want to place yourself compared to the people who have been accepted. They also have other really useful stuff in there like the average fees, number of people getting aid, average indebtedness upon leaving...etc...plus the % of people who did research / volunteering / etc during their college years. Plus, the demographic data is there as well, so you know the % of people who were white, hispanic, chinese, korean, japanese, filipino, indian, pakistani, mexican (yes it goes that specific)</p>

<p>Anyway, useful little tidbit of information.</p>