<p>One top school that releases the MCAT and GPA’s of its applicants is Cornell University. Its avg. GPA is around 3.3-3.4, similar to Harvard. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.career.cornell.edu/downloads/AaChart2007ForWeb.pdf[/url]”>http://www.career.cornell.edu/downloads/AaChart2007ForWeb.pdf</a></p>
<p>If you look at the breakdown, you see only 12 3.9+ GPA applicants but 73 35+ MCAT scorers. In fact, the median MCAT score at every GPA level is above a 30. Even the 2.8-3.4 students were scoring above a 30 on the MCAT. Nationally, a 3.4ish GPA correlates to a ~27 MCAT. </p>
<p>If you search on mdapplicants.com for high GPA (3.9+) and low MCAT (29 or below) applicants, you will find just 1 out of the 89 profiles that come up features a student from a top 20 college. If you do the reverse and search for applicants with high MCAT (35+) and low GPA’s (below a 3.3), you will find that 38 out of the 91 profiles that come up feature a student from a Top 20 college. If you include schools just outside the top 20 (like Berkeley or G-town or Michigan), you have now accounted for over 50% of the profiles. I know mdapplicants is self-selective but I think the disparity is quite dramatic b/w the profiles of the high GPA/low MCAT and the low GPA/high MCAT applicants with the MCAT being the standard with which we compare applicants across colleges.</p>