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And, even within those charts, you still can’t separate the traditional applicants from the non-trads…which are now often making up a good-sized portion of each MS1 class.
Spend a little time on SDN network and you’ll see a lot of non-trads telling their stories. Some started college at 18, goofed off/flunked out, then went into the work/military/medic world, grew up, and then went back to school to be premed. Some actually completed a bachelors in some area, but weren’t diligent about GPA (wasn’t important for their then-career goal), and then have to do a Special Masters Program or Post Bacc before they can apply to med school.
The earlier parts of their transcripts are often atrocious…D’s, Fs. Then after maturing, they return and ace their classes. MD schools don’t allow grade replacement, so their GPA’s still look bad or lowish…but because TIME can heal all wounds, med schools will often “hand pull” an application that they’ve been told about so that it doesn’t get auto-rejected by the first down-selection that doesn’t use human eyes. Acceptees with lowish GPAs like that are still going to show up in those data charts.
Just look at those outlier stats and ask yourself…could those likely have been traditional unhooked applicants? no. There’s a story behind each of those odd acceptees.