High GPAs per cycle

[radioactive15]

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In a given cycle, about what percentage of applicants interviewed have a 3.9 or above GPA?

 

[maccu5000]

https://www.aamc.org/data/facts/applicantmatriculant/ Table 17 is your best bet for piecing together an educated guess.

 

[Lucca]

Nothing to see here, see below why.

 

[JuanPabloCastel]

GPA is normally distributed so just do the math.

Find the mean for applicants, find the standard deviation and then see how many standard deviations away each 3.9X GPA is and you will have your answer (roughly).

For a more precise answer you can just use a Z table and the equation:

Z= (number I want) - mean / standard deviation

To find the normalized Z score and then look up the result.

I might do this later just for the lulz but I wouldn't get my hopes up.

I doubt it's a normal distribution. There's an upper ceiling at 4.0 which a lot of people are close to, but the rest of the GPAs are probably pretty skewed toward the low end

 

[KungFuPanda123]

I doubt it's a normal distribution. There's an upper ceiling at 4.0 which a lot of people are close to, but the rest of the GPAs are probably pretty skewed toward the low end

Yea - I'm thinking it looks a bit more bimodal

 

[Lucca]

I doubt it's a normal distribution. There's an upper ceiling at 4.0 which a lot of people are close to, but the rest of the GPAs are probably pretty skewed toward the low end

Yah you're right, what I said makes no sense. Not only because there is a ceiling, which isn't a huge problem because adjustments can be made, but it would also assume GPAs were weighted equally nationally, which is also ridiculous. That's what happens when you try to think before 8am.

 

[radioactive15]

https://www.aamc.org/download/321508/data/factstable24.pdf

According to this table from the AAMC, about 35,000 out of 140,000 applicants had GPAs of 3.8 and higher (unfortunately they don't break it down to 3.9 and above)

Does this imply that anything everyone above 3.8 is grouped together for admissions and/or there is no admissions difference between 3.8 and 3.9?

 

[cactus8910]

Does this imply that anything everyone above 3.8 is grouped together for admissions and/or there is no admissions difference between 3.8 and 3.9?

No. The difference might not be huge, but there is a difference and admissions will take it into account. They're simply grouped in this chart to keep the chart from becoming unnecessarily massive.

 

[y2k15]

https://www.aamc.org/download/321508/data/factstable24.pdf

According to this table from the AAMC, about 35,000 out of 140,000 applicants had GPAs of 3.8 and higher (unfortunately they don't break it down to 3.9 and above) in 2012-2014 combined. That's about 25% of applicants.

That's a crazy high percentage. At my college in my major, only one person broke a 3.8 (barely). Too bad med schools don't really take that into account, even with a high MCAT score.