Percentage Breakdown

[ranson]

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Just wanted to know what everyone else thinks about what weight each factor during the admissions process carries. I'll start. Feel free to organize the categories whichever way you like.

GPA: 20%
MCAT: 25%
LORs: 10%
Research: 12.5%
ECs (including volunteer work, shadowing, clubs, ect.): 12.5%
Essays (including personal statement): 12.5%
Interview: 7.5%

 

[dbeast]

GPA 50%
MCAT 50%
Everything else: Print out and use in case someone spills their coffee.

 

[bluelightx3]

I don't think research should be separate from EC and be weighed equally. Some people don't do any research and still get into medical schools... right?

 

[flatearth22]

Your premise is faulty. It's not as much as a breakdown and needing a certain percentage overall as it is needing an acceptable level in all parts of the application.

 

[NickNaylor]

This is really a useless endeavor since it's going to vary WIDELY from school to school and even at different points in the process within the same school. Research-driven schools will more than likely want to see research on your application than, say, schools that are focused on training PCPs. Some schools disregard numbers once you're invited to interview while others factor it into their final decision making.

Trying to broadly say, "THIS is the formula that schools use to determine who gets accepted" way oversimplifies the matter.

 

[generator]

GPA 50%
MCAT 50%
Everything else: Print out and use in case someone spills their coffee.

funny because its probably right

 

[Simplify]

funny because its probably right

absolutely wrong.

 

[ranson]

Your premise is faulty. It's not as much as a breakdown and needing a certain percentage overall as it is needing an acceptable level in all parts of the application.

Actually it is a breakdown, because medical schools don't rank each factor the same.

eg. Which student has the better chance of getting into a med school?

student A- GPA: 3.9 with 100 hrs of volunteer work
student B- GPA 3.2 with 300 hrs of volunteer work.

It's easily student A.

 

[circulus vitios]

absolutely wrong.

-A premedical student.

 

[CopaceticOne]

👎 This thread.

 

[Blarry]

GPA 50%
MCAT 50%
Everything else: Print out and use in case someone spills their coffee.

not true at all. i know a kid with a 4.0 36 mcat with crap EC... applied to 15 schools 0 interviews.

 

[Onres]

not true at all. i know a kid with a 4.0 36 mcat with crap EC... applied to 15 schools 0 interviews.

I think he was joking...

 

[MedAdComMD]

I think he was joking...

If you are invited for an interview, then your performance on interview day is the most important.

 

[barnettebw]

Just wanted to know what everyone else thinks about what weight each factor during the admissions process carries. I'll start. Feel free to organize the categories whichever way you like.

GPA: 20%
MCAT: 25%
LORs: 10%
Research: 12.5%
ECs (including volunteer work, shadowing, clubs, ect.): 12.5%
Essays (including personal statement): 12.5%
Interview: 7.5%

The interview counts a lot more than that. If you blow it, you won't get in. I know someone who made a 40 on the MCAT with good grades who blew then interview and didn't get in.