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Started by Happyswimmingawg
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Rush isn't the best example of the sliding scale since the elephant in the room revolves around hours of experience, especially with community impact that is non clinical.
Mission fit.
Mission fit.
Yes, but their website explicitly states the gpa/MCAT combo cutoffs. I see what you mean with the mission fit, but I am thinking of it in terms of the initial stat screening process
They might say 500 cutoff on the website but that score is going to keep an applicant out at MD schools the vast majority of the time no matter what their GPA is.
Until this past semester (I think), Rush also required 2 semesters of biochemistry. I have to look closer at what they consider GPA for screening and how they treat reinventors and career changers.
I’m amazed that Rush would have any metrics that low. But I know that despite what is published someplace, their mission fit is very important. Are you aware of the expectations for applicants?
Obviously, schools do not literally use the LizzyM score. It is a metric that somewhat clumsily combines the two numerical stats to help an applicant loosely target appropriate schools. It specifically fails when there is a wide discrepancy between the two numbers.
The median GPA and MCAT for a school are just that--the median. That means by definition that half of the accepted applicants have a score lower than that number. That said, even among schools that claim to do a "holistic review," these two stats are likely to be among the most important factors in the holistic review. It doesn't matter how many hours of volunteering you may have, if you don't have evidence that you can BOTH pass rigorous science courses (GPA) or that you can pass high stakes licensing exams (MCAT), they aren't going to accept you.
The median GPA and MCAT for a school are just that--the median. That means by definition that half of the accepted applicants have a score lower than that number. That said, even among schools that claim to do a "holistic review," these two stats are likely to be among the most important factors in the holistic review. It doesn't matter how many hours of volunteering you may have, if you don't have evidence that you can BOTH pass rigorous science courses (GPA) or that you can pass high stakes licensing exams (MCAT), they aren't going to accept you.
I’m already admitted there, I’m well aware
you’re missing my point. Please read my reply to Goro above.
Thanks for the replies, guys.
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