What is a competitive GPA for pre-med

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>Would it be 3.5+? 3.7+?</p>

<p>I plan on doing bioengineering so I'm worried about my GPA!</p>

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<p>Look for yourself</p>

<p>AAMC data for 2000-2011— matriculants by GPA & MCAT</p>

<p><a href=“https://www.aamc.org/download/161690/data/table17.pdf[/url]”>https://www.aamc.org/download/161690/data/table17.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I would say a 3.6+ GPA and a 30+ MCAT is what you should aim for based on another data table from the AAMC:</p>

<p><a href=“https://www.aamc.org/download/270906/data/table24-mcatgpagridall0911.pdf[/url]”>https://www.aamc.org/download/270906/data/table24-mcatgpagridall0911.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>^^ that link is a good starting point. A couple of other things to consider that significantly affect the odds - your home state and your race. Med school seem to give significantly more preference to instaters (or states that have a contract for some number of seats), and stats may be quite different in your home state schools. The AAMC site has similar grids by race that may apply to you. The 7- and 8-year track students may also impact the stats - typically their bar is lower and while a 30 MCAT may guarantee their spot it wont for someone from the open pool. Finally if you’re open to going the DO route, the requirements tend to be lower.</p>

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<p>Ahh i see thanks!
I’ll try and maintain a 3.6-3.7, or I will drop engineering</p>

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<p>3.5+, 3.6+ preferably. Although many people can and do get accepted with 3.3+</p>

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<p>"Although many people can and do get accepted with 3.3+ "</p>

<p>-They do? URMs?</p>

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<p>Not necessarily. And I’m not referring to DO or Caribbean either. US MD schools utilize a holistic review process–they are not looking for high stat robots. With a 3.3+ GPA, you’ve pretty much satisfied their concerns that you will struggle academically with the curriculum. Compare the 10th-90th percentile scores in the MSAR for reference. However, people with lower than average GPA are probably bringing some other aspect to the class that the admissions committee values, whether it be a high MCAT, significant extracurricular accomplishments, or something else.</p>

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<p>Also, almost 30% of acceptances went to people with a cumulative GPA between 3.2 and 3.59. This is about 15,500 people.</p>

<p>Also, consider that only about 7,000 “URMS” apply to medical school in the first place. Since we know that less than half (about 3,000) get accepted, that leaves 12,500 acceptances to “Non-URMS”.</p>

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<p>^ that’s also assuming that all the URMs have GPAs between 3.2 and 3.59 which is obviously not true and only further validates your point that plenty of white kids and asians are getting in with those stats too.</p>

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<p>12,500 represents close to 50% accepted. So, there is a data that close to 50% gets accepted with GPA=3.3? That would be news to me…then why everybody is saying that you better have GPA=3.6+? Then it is simply not true if around 50% gets in with 3.3</p>

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<p>That verbal reasoning is gonna get you. Acceptances =/= Matriculants.</p>

<p>Regardless, for 2011, the average acceptance to a US allopathic medical school went to someone with a 3.61 science GPA and a 3.67 cumulative GPA.</p>