Med School GPA acceptance question?

[deleted244469]

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http://www.aamc.org/data/facts/2008/mcatgpa-grid-3yrs-app-accpt.htm

I am confused. How did so many applicants with GPA's in the 2's get into med school? Just curious? I thought they were automatically screened out from the application process?

 

[FlowLimited]

http://www.aamc.org/data/facts/2008/mcatgpa-grid-3yrs-app-accpt.htm

I am confused. How did so many applicants with GPA's in the 2's get into med school? Just curious? I thought they were automatically screened out from the application process?

Not all schools have definitive cutoffs for GPA or MCAT. I'd go so far as to say that most schools don't.

 

[deleted244469]

Hmm, ok thanks for that. Thats what I seem to read here (anything below 3.0 is sorted out). Its interesting that about 15-20% of applicants with decent MCATs and a GPA below 3.0 get in to school.

 

[mvenus929]

They may be second career people, who had a bad first go around in college, but more than showed their ability to cope with the stresses of medical school.

But 1303 acceptees out of over 11000 applicants isn't all that great of odds.

 

[majahops]

Gotta look at the ethnic makeup of those people. Certain groups are able to get in with lower #'s due to the nation's problem of lack of representation of certain groups in medicine. I happen to be very much so in favor of affirmative action, whether its in law or not... but on the flip side, we have to be realistic about why statistics like this exist. I assure you a disproportionate number of the < 3.0 GPA acceptees are not from one of the "well represented" groups in medicine.

Hmm, ok thanks for that. Thats what I seem to read here (anything below 3.0 is sorted out). Its interesting that about 15-20% of applicants with decent MCATs and a GPA below 3.0 get in to school.