<p>Hello All,
My son is a senior at Cornell U...graduating in 2015. He anticipates a 3.65-3.7 GPA upon graduation. He recently took his MCAT and got a 35. (9V/13PS/13BS). He has a lot of EC's, is the Senior Tribune at his Fraternity, has done hundreds of hours of hospital volunteer work, has worked at the Medical Examiners office as a intern for the past 4 summers. Is very involved in community activities. His plan is to take a gap year to do more work in the medical field.</p>
<p>He is very interested in applying to NYC Medical Schools and I was wondering if anyone thinks he has a chance at the following schools:
Weil Cornell ( his top choice)
Columbia
NYU
Albert Einstein</p>
<p>Any thoughts? Thank you very much in advance.</p>
<p>MSAR will list admission requirements and the range of scores of accepted applicants for last year’s cycle.</p>
<p>Your son has great numbers, but numbers are only get you past the first screening. Getting an interview invitation depends on the strength of the rest of his application and whether his experiences/goals are good fit with school.</p>
<p>Med school admission (especially at the schools your son is interested in) are extremely competitive and there are no guarantees for anyone. Your son should plan on applying widely and to schools outside of the NYC area. </p>
<p>BTW, depending on which cycle your son plans on applying, you and he should be aware that starting 2017 not all med schools will accept scores from the current version of MCAT. </p>
<p>He is a Sr in Cornell and has 3.75 to 3.8 GPA and scored 38 in MCAT. Involved in lot of EC including working as EMT… taking a gap year to do more research/hospital work. He is interested in NYC schools including Colombia.</p>
<p>I would like to know if you hear anything more on this… What is MSAR? (med school admission report??) did you or anyone buy?</p>
<p>I don’t do chances because med school admission on the individual level are extremely difficult to predict. You can look at the stats that AMCAS publishes so you can make some predictions on a macro scale, but that’s about it.</p>
<p>MSAR = Medical School Admission Requirements</p>
<p>It’s an annual report produced by AMCAS using data from the last admission cycle. It lists required classes, the 10th and 90th percentile GPAs and MCAT scores of accepted applicants, program descriptions, etc. You can purchase access at AMCAS’ website.</p>
<p>US New Graduate Compass ($30 for 1 year access) has different information–number of applicants, number of interviews tendered (broken down by by instate vs OOS for publics), number of acceptances offered, MCATs and GPAs of matriculated students, M-F ratios, etc.</p>
New York Medical schools are extremely difficult to gain admission, just by the desirability and sheer number of applicants. It is the largest training ground for doctors in the world. The top schools and hospitals are there.
All I can say is that his 9 Verbal is going to cause problems in competitive admission, good luck. Also, I believe the MINIMUM for ANY med school admission is 3.6, so those 4 schools might have a higher standard.
3.6 is not a true minimum in the sense that a sub 3.6 is automatically rejected. Artloversplus has a theory (which definitely has some truth to it although I don’t 100% agree) that the <3.6 GPA group is essentially all URMs/non-trads/others with some obscenely special/exceptional talent (think D1 national champion athlete level and above) that someone like the OP’s son who is your run of the mill pre-med won’t get in anywhere with a sub 3.6 (I would agree with that sentiment when talking specifically about the NYC schools as they are among the best). According to the MCAT/GPA table for 2014: https://www.aamc.org/download/321494/data/factstable17.pdf 36% of medical students had a GPA of 3.6 or lower.
When I was at Johns Hopkins, I heard you needed a 3.2 in BME. They do adjust somewhat for BME and the school. A 3.7 from Cornell is fine for med school as such. For a top med school, the MCATs are fine, but the GPA might be a little low. The schools OP mentions have significantly higher average GPAs than that, and Cornell might be a below average school for them.
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