Georgetown MD/PhD

[Youngm2194]

Does anyone know anything about the competitiveness with MD/PhD at Georgetown versus the regular MD program? The reason I'm asking is because I see on the site that they DONT participate in rolling admissions and the deadline is in November so anything that I would do in the summer/fall as well as the paper I will be second author on would count. I am borderline applicant in terms of GPA (3.31 w/ upward trend) but 515 MCAT (128/128/131/128) and will have one first author pub in journal with IF of 3 and second author pub where I generated most of the data in journal with IF of around 20. For research I would have 250hrs one med school, 250hrs another med school, and by that November 3000hrs at another hospital/med school as lab manager/tech. Additionally I can have the courses I take in the summer count (I know not in AMCAS gpa but I would guess in the secondary I could say)

Thanks for opinions on this school I couldn't find any info that was recent

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[Natural_Obsessions]

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[JustAPhD]

(15/16 cycle)
208 applicants received
30 IIs given out (14%)
7 offers (3.3%)
5 matriculants

It doesn't say avenge stats, but I'd assume quite high. A 3.31 is pretty low for any MD/PhD.

So it's very competitive. The 7 offers from 30 IIs is a killer, and to me shows that they most likely value those who can talk about their research intelligently and who's research interests line up with the school (plus the usual med school II stuff).

 

[Natural_Obsessions]

(15/16 cycle)
208 applicants received
30 IIs given out (14%)
7 offers (3.3%)
5 matriculants

It doesn't say avenge stats, but I'd assume quite high. A 3.31 is pretty low for any MD/PhD.

So it's very competitive. The 7 offers from 30 IIs is a killer, and to me shows that they most likely value those who can talk about their research intelligently and who's research interests line up with the school (plus the usual med school II stuff).

acceptance rate very similar across country (except a lot of programs are bigger than 5). I would apply to many MD/PhD programs with your stats

 

[Youngm2194]

Thanks for the replies. I know 3.31 is very low. Do LORs from PIs have any more weight for this than normal MD? Just because I have 3 very very strong recs from 3 different PIs who are all very high up in their respective fields and all work at different med schools (1 research dept chair of ivy med school, 1 lab director of florida med school, one combo between PI at another ivy med school/dept chief at associated hospital (top3) ). I worked in all 3 of the labs and one is current

 

[Lucca]

MD/PhD is across the board more competitive than applying straight MD in terms of stats.

Research and PI letters are far more important for MD/PhD than MD (basically nothing else really matters for MD/PhD provided you have some shadowing). However, 3.31 is simply too low to be realistically competitive unless you are also a URM with lots of research experience and a 97+ %ile mcat.

 

[efle]

Wow, getting 5 matrics out of 7 offered seats is insanely high yield. Either this is a bit of an anomaly or they somehow select really well for people that will prioritize Gtown