@@mom2coIIegekids That last statement is going to really affect reported GPA…that likely includes many students who needed GPA repair…or who weren’t premed as undergrads so didn’t care if they had some Bs and Cs and then did a post Bacc and aced it.
That reported GPA also includes hooked and URM students. Non-hooked, non-URM, traditional applicants to MD med schools need to aim for GPA’s higher than a 3.5."
Well I think that you may be conflating a couple of things. As I read it, the 29% is talking about students matriculating to Penn Perelman. I doubt that many Perelman students had weak transcripts and needed a makeover.
Perelman’s admission stats are: average gpa is 3.84, and the average MCAT is 38, and the admit rate is 4.9%. Those are very strong numbers. I suspect they just took time to strengthen their application further with research or work experience. I would also suspect that the stats for students straight from UG would need to be stronger than these averages to be successful.
The 3.6 gpa and 3.5 gpa in sciences were the averages for Penn undergraduates who were successful getting admitted some medical school, which is totally different.