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One question I had was, how are application cycles going for people? Have most people had interviews/acceptances?
Application cycle seems to be going well enough, but unfortunately I can't give more than a feeling since only admins would be in tune with how many people exactly are hearing back. But perhaps not even then, since interview invites and acceptances are self-reported, and some may not be bothering to tell the office.
Another complicating factor is that there is a sizable fraction of the class that applied to Georgetown, and only Georgetown. Georgetown does not send out II's to its SMPs until March, after most of med and some other courses are done. So, the people applying to GUSOM only and the ones not applying this year cannot be counted. There are also students that decide to pull out of the cycle because they realize while taking med classes that they don't actually want to be a doctor.
Things seem to be going as normal here despite this especially competitive cycle, so we'll probably end up with the usual 50% acceptance year-of, 85% within a couple. Remember though that when I say 50%, that means 50% of the class, and not 50%-of-the-part-of-the-class-that-applied, etc. At the end of the day, there are people with interviews and acceptances; it's a very exciting time right now especially
And another question I had was, (I know this question has been beaten to death around these threads but I am just so curious...) about how many people a year end up getting acceptances at Georgetown? And what are the average stats of those people? (it's okay if you don't know). What I'm concerned about is being led to believe that I have a chance at Georgetown if the people that are getting in to Gtown every year are people with, idk, MCAT 35+ or GPA 3.6+ or so.
Varies, but usual range is 18-25. Your II is based almost entirely on your performance within the program, so if someone comes into the program with a MCAT 35+ and GPA 3.6+ but only gets a 2.9 in the SMP, they won't get an interview, whereas the person with a 30 MCAT and 3.0 GPA incoming but 3.65 in the SMP likely will. II's tend to come out around early-to-mid March.
Normally it's the top half of the class that gets interviewed - this makes sense, because Georgetown wants people who work well in their curriculum. Why bring in someone getting C's in their med classes? It doesn't mean that person can't do well in med school or be a doctor, it just means that they don't learn best the way GUSOM teaches, and they'd probably be benefiting more by going to another school with a different teaching style. The range of the interviewees tends to be SMP GPA 3.3-4.0 (4.0 is very rare, though).
Sorry for the info barf, hope that helps though!!
