Do very high GPAs with target MCATs get yield protected?

[lolpremed22]

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If someone has a GPA way above the 90th percentile but falls within the MCAT range of a low or mid tier school will they get yield protected?

 

[Frogger27]

No

 

[Lawpy]

If someone has a GPA way above the 90th percentile but falls within the MCAT range of a low or mid tier school will they get yield protected?

Yield protection only applies to MCAT scores, not GPA.

 

[Goro]

If someone has a GPA way above the 90th percentile but falls within the MCAT range of a low or mid tier school will they get yield protected?

No

 

[efle]

How can you even have a GPA "way above" the 90th percentile?? Doesn't pretty much every school in the country have a 10th-90th that spans up to 3.9+ ?

 

[Endoxifen]

How can you even have a GPA "way above" the 90th percentile?? Doesn't pretty much every school in the country have a 10th-90th that spans up to 3.9+ ?

You could have a 4.0 applying to Wayne State. That would pry qualify.

 

[efle]

You could have a 4.0 applying to Wayne State. That would pry qualify.

Wayne 90th is a 3.96

0.4 LizzyM over, whoa there !!! No way they'd ever consider coming here !

 

[Endoxifen]

Wayne 90th is a 3.96

0.4 LizzyM over, whoa there !!! No way they'd ever consider coming here !

Wow, is it really? Is Wayne state a good school? My parents lived around there in the 70s and they hate it.

 

[efle]

Wow, is it really? Is Wayne state a good school? My parents lived around there in the 70s and they hate it.

Well the medians are only at 3.76/508, it's just that high GPAs are dime a dozen so the top 10% of pretty much everywhere is near perfect. According to my handy dandy sheet, 136/139 (98%) of schools have a 90th percentile accepted cGPA of 3.90 or higher. The three that fall below are all 3.85-3.89

So there you have it OP: the original question doesn't make sense because it isn't possible to have a GPA "way above the 90th percentile", you can only be about 1 LizzyM point beyond it at the most. Yield protection is all about high MCATs.

 

[lolpremed22]

Well the medians are only at 3.76/508, it's just that high GPAs are dime a dozen so the top 10% of pretty much everywhere is near perfect. According to my handy dandy sheet, 136/139 (98%) of schools have a 90th percentile accepted cGPA of 3.90 or higher. The three that fall below are all 3.85-3.89

So there you have it OP: the original question doesn't make sense because it isn't possible to have a GPA "way above the 90th percentile", you can only be about 1 LizzyM point beyond it at the most. Yield protection is all about high MCATs.

So what happens if you have a great GPA and happen to score ridiculously high on the MCAT but don't have the ECs for top tier (as in good enough ECs for mid tier but not top)?

 

[efle]

So what happens if you have a great GPA and happen to score ridiculously high on the MCAT but don't have the ECs for top tier (as in good enough ECs to get into a mid tier but not top)?

Imho, there are some schools that are mid-tier by reputation/competitiveness but that very heavily emphasize stats, who will be interested in someone with very high numbers and willing to forgive cookie cutter stuff elsewhere. See this post/thread for some idea of schools known for chasing numbers.

Edit: To give some more specific examples too, Ohio State and Boston University are places that most would consider mid-tier. Yet their accepted MCAT ranges go all the way up to the 100th percentile. It would be pretty darn hard to get yourself yield-protected out of these kinds of places.