Or because people know this will be a controversial thread just by looking at the title so they congregate to watch the show.
Out of curiosity, which schools have not sent you II's ?
Below average for matriculants, even.
So how about 3.75+ AND 520+ AND 130+ in every section? Lol really it’s arbitrary and self-defined.
Exactly I am pretty sure the last part got rid most of 520+ people. It’s really futile to define it.Meh...
Who cares about gpa, anyone who wants a 3.9 bad enough can get a 4.0.Meh...
Because too low of a GPA limits your option and shows you don’t really care about schoolwork too much.
Not to the extent that they will differentiate a 3.6 vs 3.8 as 518 and and a 522
GPA is a dime a dozen. It’s not in limited supply. MCAT is. Supply demand economics 101
Both GPA and MCAT serve a purpose. GPA is a marker of sustained effort and performance, measured over years. MCAT serves as an equalizer and represents one's mastery of the material and test-taking capabilities, measured over one day.
i am sure each school has its own agenda. When your dean of admissions tells you that the mission of the cycle is to maintain our 521 median, i am sure your hands are tied and you may have to pick the latter, ALL ELSE BEING EQUAL. Certainly, there’s no “all else being equal.” Therefore whether we consider a 3.75 or 3.6 with a 520+ is the threshold for high stats is very moot.
The same admissions dean will also want to maintain a high GPA.
I don’t think there’s so much victory or grace in medicine as struggle and perseverance. This thread is certainly not a victory lap.
There are more gradients to GPA than to MCAT. A 3.6 is not the same as a 3.7 nor a 3.8.
With a 3.9X and a 52x MCAT, what exactly are these 15 target schools that are not T10 or T20? ‘Target’ should be where you are closest to the median. You are only close to the median of like...7 schools. For applicants like us, the top schools are target. Thinking anything less is just unnecessary self doubt and stating that non-T20 schools are “target” for such a high stats applicant is extraordinarily tone deaf as there are 3.7/515 applicants who read that and rightly think “Well then where am I target for?” They are target for the schools you are claiming are target...but now you just lowered their confidence.
Hmm idk if I’d say 517+ are all the same. I have a friend who basically has the same app (gpa, research, pubs, ECs) but he has a 518 and so far he’s received 3 II. I think at the top schools they differentiate between 524+ and 520under
Once you are after the interview, I am sure they rank you based on your overall scores with your stats being the most important contributor, if you are at a place where the median is 520+, trust me they don’t treat 517+ the same, because if they do, their median will be 517, just because the score is scaled...
Right, but the fact that GPA is not a limited resource, as an operation optimizer, there’s almost no constraint. For example, if you want to construct a class with a 521 and 3.85. You can randomly draw 100 people from a hat, I bet that your GPA median is not far from that number. You absolutely can’t say the same about the MCAT median. My point is not that MCAT is a better indicator of your capacity than GPA. Rather I want to illustrate the point that the MCAT is the differentiator that can be effectively used to limit the amount of the applicants who can get in. It’s only logical for a school wanting to achieve a 520 median to essentially disregard (3.6+) GPA when it comes to high MCAT people, because even they do that, they will likely get a median around 3.85 among that population. GPA for the ones with below median MCAT will be a determining factor because this population has no contribution to the MCAT anymore. That’s why in the real situation (that’s for school with a 520 median), they won’t constrict too much on the GPA once you are over the median. That’s even more true for schools with 521 and 522, they just don’t have that much room to maneuver.The same admissions dean will also want to maintain a high GPA.
In this hypothetical match-up, both the 3.6/522 and 3.8/518 applicant can stop fighting. The last remaining spot already went to a 3.9/523 student. (Just kidding)
This isn't college confidential
Why are you so dismissive of someone else’s accomplishment? I could say the same about research, EC, shadowing and volunteering. You think people just walk in and out with a 526?? 3 questions separating 521 and 526, I bet you never looked at the scale....
Are they the only medical schools in the country? No, so how they determine admissions is their business. Don't worry about them.
I agree. It’s all hypothetical because no two candidates are the same. Stories are incredibly important. But I believe high MCAT people also deserve some acknowledgment. I can’t stand people saying oh it’s all luck and blah blah. I also challenge all the adcoms here to say did you prepare for the MCAT yourself and what would you score on it? Seriously it’s so easy to TALK about something from the perspective of an evaluator.
Nobody here says ONLY MCAT. Your post should be banned.
Mods, vicious mockery.
Plight?
