MCAT vs GPA at good schools

[md_hopeful21]

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which ones more important your gpa or your mcat.

 

[Chemguync]

A good school as in one that offers a four year degree within the united states and US territories?

 

[Tezzie]

Uhm why do u think it's different for non "good" schools?

Fact of the matter : Both count!

The end!

 

[calcrew14]

Originally posted by md_hopeful21
If you goto a good school, which ones more important your gpa or your mcat. I goto berkeley.

I also would like to hear some comment about such a case that is supported by only either MCAT or GPA. Two different applicants have just been accepted by Tulane. (Congrat to both of them.) One is 35/3.4? the other <30/?. Assuming that everything else is equal, how does an Adcom evaluate these two applicants with lopsided credentials?

Looks like anyone of them, Chanel or Dior, will do.

 

[Nutmeg]

That's my concern. I'm currently sporting the 3.3/40T lopsided crap. My biggest fear is that they would think that I just studied for the MCAT, did a Kaplan-type dealie, and blew off my classes. I swear, man, it ain't like that!

I wish that the "they add points to your GPA if you go to a rough undergrad school" rumors were true. 🙁

 

[calcrew14]

Originally posted by Nutmeg
My biggest fear is that they would think that I just studied for the MCAT, did a Kaplan-type dealie, and blew off my classes. I swear, man, it ain't like that!
🙁

Even I (or should I say especially I?)do have a tough time to think otherwise. Anyway, the skills that earned you the T will always save you. Don't forget NYU just in case. It is probably the only one place that promises to credit a strong finish in the late rounds. But you might have to masquerade anything that is blue or blonde though. 🙂
Good luck.

 

[xaelia]

A strong MCAT will help compensate for a low GPA, but not vice versa. There's research on the AAMC site that shows a higher correlation between MCAT and medical school performance than GPA and medical school performance, so most schools use the MCAT as a better predictor of future success.

A few schools give you an explicit numerical GPA bonus from coming from certain "rigorous" undergraduate institutions, but it's rare.