To all the people asking if X GPA has ruined their chances

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@krug

The premed advisor at D’s school told her that even with her MCAT score in the 95th percentile, GPA 3.67, double major (science and social science), and decent EC’s (Big Brother/Sister for 3 yrs, Battered Women’s shelter, school clubs, shadowing, research, etc.), she had a very small chance of receiving an acceptance to medical school because her GPA was problematic

This person is either a whack job and/or has an extremely warped sense of chance. Your daughter’s MCAT score of 35 (95th percentile) and GPA of 3.67, give her 82% (based AAMC MCAT/GPA grid for whites) chance of getting admitted into an MD school! I wonder how many kids this “advisor” dissuaded from applying to med schools, based on his highly refined chancing skills!

@collegeguy562

I was worried he will not able to make a decent Mcat score, say 32, no matter how hard he is working, due to the correlation trend between Sat/Act and Mcat

Correlation does not mean causation nor does it mean inevitability. If your kid has the knowledge of the subject matter, has the ability to think critically and works hard, he can do well on MCAT regardless of how he did on SAT.</p>