How true is this?

[Amberite]

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I read that most medical schools multiply your MCAT and GPA together to create a "score" for you. So, in other words, a 3.2 GPA and 34 MCAT (108.8 score) would be technically the same as a 3.6 GPA and a 30 MCAT.

Is this true?

 

[DrBowtie]

No.

 

[kevster2001]

no

 

[silkworm]

I really doubt it. Different schools may have different policies, but any adcomm with some sense would want to look GPA and MCAT independently at some point.

 

[Bluntman]

Some schools definitely do combine your GPA (which itself is often a weighted combo of FR/SO/JR/SR grades to reflect upward/downward trends) and your MCAT score into a weighted "academic composite" number.

 

[stars6868]

I know that at Oklahoma they do exactly that. They multiply gpa and mcat by a constant and then together and get some overall number and thats all they do to determine interviews.(they told me when i called to see why i didnt get one last year that i was about 3 people away based on their "formula")

 

[Akshay]

the math behind it as far as I've heard is... GPA times 10 plus MCAT....a score of 65-70 is considered competitive and 70+ ofcourse is stellar! anyone second this?

 

[OwnageMobile]

At Ku they multiply your MCAT by 10 and your GPA by 100, add the numbers together, and if you have >600 you get an interview. Why they unnecessarily add a factor of 10 beats me. Why not just drop it down to add your MCAT to your GPA*10 => 60 ? I guess it's Kansas. We're kinda behind in some areas ^_^ . It would only make sense to have such a formula to use when quantitativly ranking applicants, I'm sure KUMED isn't the only one.

 

[kevster2001]

At Ku they multiply your MCAT by 10 and your GPA by 100, add the numbers together, and if you have >600 you get an interview. Why they unnecessarily add a factor of 10 beats me. Why not just drop it down to add your MCAT to your GPA*10 => 60 ? I guess it's Kansas. We're kinda behind in some areas ^_^ . It would only make sense to have such a formula to use when quantitativly ranking applicants, I'm sure KUMED isn't the only one.

Whoa really.. hmmm excellent

 

[45408]

the math behind it as far as I've heard is... GPA times 10 plus MCAT....a score of 65-70 is considered competitive and 70+ ofcourse is stellar! anyone second this?

That's a good way to judge your competitiveness, but I can't say if any schools use that method - although it sounds like some come pretty close.

 

[ToPa5579]

That's a good way to judge your competitiveness, but I can't say if any schools use that method - although it sounds like some come pretty close.

I know for a fact that at University of Washington they calculate your GPA by this formula
[(Freshman GPA x 1) + (Soph GPA x 2) + (Junior GPA x 3)]/6
and you have to meet a minimum cutoff, but for those who don't make the cutoff, admissions members go back and look through them by hand, to see if anything else stands out in the application (ie a high MCAT score). So GPA isn't everything, but it sure is a HUGE part of it.

 

[Dr.Acula]

While i doubt they use any specific formula given on this thread I am quite sure they have some sort of formula designed to crudely separate any remotely competitive applicants from the rif-raf

 

[OwnageMobile]

... possibly you automatically get an interview if you are in-state or KU alumn with 60+. Or maybe it's for every applicant. Either way, they use the formula.

 

[AmoryBlaine]

I read that most medical schools multiply your MCAT and GPA together to create a "score" for you. So, in other words, a 3.2 GPA and 34 MCAT (108.8 score) would be technically the same as a 3.6 GPA and a 30 MCAT.

Is this true?

True that some schools do this.

Not true that a 34/3.2 is the same as a 34/3.6. The MCAT is not a linear scale.