Lowest GPA to Get In

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The 3.0 is the lowest they are ALLOWED to accept. It is very rare that anyone with below a 3.4 would be accepted at an MD school. 3.5 is considered very low.

 

[Lys Ile Glu Leu]

My 3.3 got me an interview at state allo school. This school rejects about 33% of its interviewees directly post-interview. Relatively few are accepted straight up. The rest of us are put on hold for a decision in late March.

Point? Not a safe bet, but there are some avenues toward US allo despite a GPA like mine.

You're right though, incredibly tough.

GL in UG.

 

[Donald Juan]

I was accepted with a 3.19 at the time I applied (it was around a 3.3 by the time I graduated). I'd like to point out that GPA isn't just a number, it comes with the transcripts. My situation is that I attended college when I was 17 and got mostly F's, then went back to school when I was 24 and got all A's. So, my 3.19 was the result of a 9 year old transcript combined with a recent transcript with 90 hours of A's. There's a good chance that most people you hear of getting in with a GPA around a 3.0 have a similar situation. Consistently being a B student wouldn't look very good.

 

[jr93]

I graduated with a Mech. Engineering degree in 2005 with a 3.22 GPA. I didn't try hard for a GPA back then because I never figured I'd go to medical school at the time. I took prerequisites starting in 2010 while working 45+ hours a week. Got 6 A's and 1 B (OChem II) in post-bacc. I got all 5 interviews that I tried to get (initially 10 primaries). Already fully accepted at 2 of them with deposits sent, alternate at 1 that was already full, waiting on 1, and rejected after the final pool at 1. The bad news is that one rejection was IUSM. They strongly favor high scores which I did not know when I applied. I just lived and worked there a few years and have family there so I figured I had state ties so I applied. The good news is that I never would've gone there anyway with multiple acceptances because their interview process is like a cattle call and your potential school location is random and each are different. My state school was the only one to bring up my GPA and I got accepted there and they may have only brought it up because I mentioned my "low" GPA in my personal statement.

 

[The Stranger]

I desperately wish I could pick the brains (or MDApplicant pages) of the 4 people who were accepted with GPAs below 2.2!

You can pick mine if you want 🙂. My sGPA is 2.1 and cGPA is 2.71. I was accepted to one of my top choice schools yesterday.

I also did a rigorous Masters in Medical Sciences program and graduated with a 3.85, in an attempt to give adcoms something else to look at, and not immediately close my folder after seeing my atrocious undergraduate grades.

I guess it worked .

 

[nysegop]

You can pick mine if you want 🙂. My sGPA is 2.1 and cGPA is 2.71. I was accepted to one of my top choice schools yesterday.

I also did a rigorous Masters in Medical Sciences program and graduated with a 3.85, in an attempt to give adcoms something else to look at, and not immediately close my folder after seeing my atrocious undergraduate grades.

I guess it worked .

:troll:

 

[Tadaaa]

They were comparing two populations with a very similar MD acceptance rate, so as to highlight the difference in stats required for URMs and non-URMs. The point being that white students with good stats have ~50% acceptance rate, but hispanic students are accepted at a similar rate with lower stats.

Their cherrypicked data made sense, or at least demonstrated a point. Yours is just random.

👍

 

[The Stranger]

:troll:

I understand that it is hard to believe, but I am being honest. I had to work extremely hard to show medical schools that I am not the same person I was in college.

 

[ralphlauren55]

I guess I should clarify before everyone gets up in arms.

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=985472

1) Who is the writer
2) What is your relationship with your writer
3) What can the writer vouch for

I have a hard time coming up with a situation where a doctor patient relationship is a good thing to base a letter of recommendation. Just a cautionary, most people think that their letters of rec are great and rarely are they right, they often confuse nice things being said about them with a strong letter. Just as most people think in a, "well, if I get a 4.0 from here on out, despite never coming close to that in the past, then XYZ will happen."

The letter is for my undergrad transfer, not medical school. Just wanted to clear that up. Of course it would be **** for a medical school LOR.

 

[502623]

I have a 3.0 at the moment and this is only because I struggled with SEVERE chronic back pain for the last 5 years. Just had surgery which pretty much cured my back pain and I plan on getting a 4.0 from here on which will make me end up with a 3.4 or so. I have talked to admissions officers and they say that I have a great chance of getting in. It's all about your STORY. Not everyone has an easy/perfect life that goes to med school. I have also been to Mayo Clinic 2x and they have wrote me great recommendations from when I attended their Pain Rehabilitation Center, which looks really good and explains my low GPA.

If you have a low GPA, be sure to ACE the MCAT and have a great story to tell about your GPA. Don't be afraid of your GPA from your freshman and sophmore years, from everything I've heard they look way more at your junior/senior years. Hope that helps.

I would imagine the GPA from your freshman/sophomore years would be higher than your junior/senior years because of intro classes being easier and whatnot, but maybe not everyone does it the same. I just know for me I'm in intro level chemistry classes, and they're easier than what orgo I and II will be next two semesters. However, maybe it won't be as extreme of a demon as it's hyped up to be.

 

[SixStringPsych]

I would imagine the GPA from your freshman/sophomore years would be higher than your junior/senior years because of intro classes being easier and whatnot, but maybe not everyone does it the same. I just know for me I'm in intro level chemistry classes, and they're easier than what orgo I and II will be next two semesters. However, maybe it won't be as extreme of a demon as it's hyped up to be.

Some people, like myself, had trouble adjusting to studying in college as opposed to high school which was a breeze, and got C's and B's in intro bio but As and A-'s in orgo and upper level bios.

 

[Violagirl]

I have a question for those that after graduation, ended up doing a special masters program before applying to medical school. Did you work full-time on the side along with doing your program?

 

[502623]

Some people, like myself, had trouble adjusting to studying in college as opposed to high school which was a breeze, and got C's and B's in intro bio but As and A-'s in orgo and upper level bios.

Ah, I understand. I think I'd prefer it to be that way than what I feel orgo will be like for me, lol.

 

[Marika11]

I have a question for those that after graduation, ended up doing a special masters program before applying to medical school. Did you work full-time on the side along with doing your program?

I have not done an SMP but I'm 99.99% sure that this would be completely impossible. Given class time conflicts and the big effort an SMP would take. This is like asking, "during your first year of medical school, did you work full time as well?"

 

[tiagoe]

You can pick mine if you want 🙂. My sGPA is 2.1 and cGPA is 2.71. I was accepted to one of my top choice schools yesterday.

I also did a rigorous Masters in Medical Sciences program and graduated with a 3.85, in an attempt to give adcoms something else to look at, and not immediately close my folder after seeing my atrocious undergraduate grades.

I guess it worked .

The_Stranger, did you apply after completing your masters, or while enrolled in your masters? I'm starting my masters in august, but want to apply to med school this cycle (so in may).... but my cGPA is 2.9 AND I'm Canadian, so I feel like the odds are against me, BUT I'm still hoping to start med school in 2014

 

[Snowdon48]

The GPA cutoff might be 3.0 but many MD programs also post an MCAT cutoff at 24. But how many 24's actually get accepted?

 

[aspiring20]

Asian 3.4-3.59 GPA 30-32 MCAT = 48.0%
White 3.4-3.59 GPA 30-32 MCAT = 54.2%
African American 3.4-3.59 GPA 30-32 MCAT = 93.2%

I can cherrypick data too.
Why are you comparing a low stat URM with a high stat ORM makes no sense bro

sigh..........

can anyone explain the discrepancy between asian and white applicants?

can a 6% difference be considered negligible in this case?

 

[AdrianVeidt]

The GPA cutoff might be 3.0 but many MD programs also post an MCAT cutoff at 24. But how many 24's actually get accepted?

Almost 5k from 2010-2012

 

[Narmerguy]

To my knowledge, there is no hard and fast "cutoff" below which a school simply cannot accept students. In fact, I think there is a user on SDN who posts frequently on SDN that had below a 3.0 (though it was in one of the harder majors).

 

[AdrianVeidt]

sigh..........

can anyone explain the discrepancy between asian and white applicants?

can a 6% difference be considered negligible in this case?

Asians are expected to be smarter than everyone else.

How intelligence is perceived in America:

Asians >> middle easterners > whites >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> minorities

 

[aspiring20]

Asians are expected to be smarter than everyone else.

How intelligence is perceived in America:

Asians >> middle easterners > whites >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> minorities

i hope this is sarcasm.

i am serious in my question.