Here is an interesting post stating about 450 were invited to apply (met reqs/received supplements) for GAP back in 2015. Compared to last year’s number 1700, that is nearly 4X more applicants the last year.
Incredibly so. My year there were 10 medical GAP students. To my knowledge by the end of sophomore year at least 2 - 3 of them had lost their GAP status due to a low GPA.
It’s in the chart on the page. About 350-450 students are invited to apply for GAP (of the x-thousand students that apply to Pitt, it’s a very small percent). From there, only about 200-250 students actually fill out the application and turn it in. Out of those students, no more than 50 are invited for an interview (i.e. about 20-25% of the applicants). Then only 8 - 12 are invited into the GAP program (so 16 - 25% of the interviewees, or about 5% of the people who turned in applications). That’s why no one should count on GAP. Being invited to apply to it already requires a super competitive application and from there it just gets harder.
I don’t know too much about the VCU med program so I can’t answer although I imagine Pitt’s might be a bit harder due to it’s higher ranking.
Unless your school is also const…
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