MCAT averages by UNDERGRAD school

[ewing]

For law schools, they calibrate your school's GPA by looking at average LSAT and average GPA...if you have a bunch of kids with 3.0's getting 170's, then they figure grading is really tough (like at Swarthmore, for example)

I go to a school where the GPA gets a bit of a boost in the law school process, though not as much as at Swarthmore, and I noticed thateveryone around me has scored between 30 and 40 on the MCAT....which is a bit higher than the 25 +/- 6 national average...are there any stats on this?

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[ventricle]

Here?s a tidbit. There may be some more in the below-linked story:

For Harvard?s Class 0f 2002:

?The mean MCAT scores for accepted seniors were, on a 15-point scale, 10.9 for Verbal Reasoning, 12.3 for Physical Sciences and 11.5 for Biological Sciences. The average overall grade point average for accepted seniors was 3.57; the science average was 3.52.?

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=349042

 

[dookbloo]

those harvard kids do their hw...duke students avg a 32.

 

[indo]

Take a look at http://www.mdapplicants.com there you can search by undergrad school. you might be able to get a good idea even though the sample sizes aren't too big yet.

 

[Columbia22]

I don't know 1 person at my school (Columbia), who has gotten under a 30 on it

 

[ventricle]

Mdapplicants.com is cool site, but i think their numbers run a little high. In the Harvard case, the class of 2002 accepted students had an average MCAT of 34.7; the Harvard undergrads in the mdapplicants.com self-selected sample had a 36.9 mean.

 

[Ms. Dawson DO]

Princeton University's Health office generally provides this information annually...however, I don't think they have updated for 2003 yet. But for 2002 here are the stats for ACCEPTED

 

[Ms. Dawson DO]

Sorry post was sent prematurely.....

Princeton University's Health office generally provides this information annually...however, I don't think they have updated for 2003 yet. But for 2002 here are the stats for ACCEPTED students:

3.4 Science GPA
3.56 Other

10.5 Verbal
11.3 Physical
11.0 Biological
32.8 total mcat

For those that applied that were class of 02 and class of 01, over 90% gained acceptance to medical school. Of these students, 99% had committee letters written by princeton's health professions committee.

Those older applicants, roughly 80% gained acceptance to a medical school. However, only 75% of those students had committee letters prepared by princeton.

 

[zinjanthropus]

University of Michigan
Mean VR: 8.66
Mean PS: 9.29
Mean BS: 9.39

Mean Overall Score: 27.34


August 2003

this is the mean for all test takers from UM in August 2003

 

[....]

24.6 april 24.5
mean score from all testers at FSU

 

[thedevirginator]

2001 MCAT average for LSU=23.8

 

[ttac]

MIT 2001 average (accepted): 34.2

http://web.mit.edu/career/www/fr-sophinfo.pdf
(page 6)

ttac

 

[ventricle]

Here's a link to slighlty more recent (Class of 2002) MIT information:

http://web.mit.edu/career/www/infostats/preprof.html

 

[ttac]

Originally posted by ventricle
Here's a link to slighlty more recent (Class of 2002) MIT information:

http://web.mit.edu/career/www/infostats/preprof.html

Ooh... MCAT average < 33? OUCH. I honestly expected more of the 'tute 🙁

I hereby defer to Hah-vahd's superior MCAT average 😛 but FWIW, my only consolation is that bio (along with management) majors were considered pretty much bottom of the barrel at MIT. Yes, there were some smart course VII majors, but on the whole, almost all of the truly brilliant people at MIT majored in something harder, such as math/physics/engineering/etc...

ttac

 

[peterockduke]

Isn't it funny how some undergrads have higher MCAT scores than the majority of medical schools?

Harvard Premed (34) vs USC Med Student (32).

FUNNY!

It is still kind of absurd to me to think that undergrad gpa isn't weighed heavily.