Question about grades

[megsMS]

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What is considered a good average for medical school graduates? I know the top choice would be 4.0, but realistically not everyone is going to get that. Does anyone know the average GPA of med school graduates? Also, what about the preclinical years? Is something like a B-average considered okay or is it horrible?

 

[dread]

For most med schools, the avg is a B/pass in pre-clinical courses. It won't hurt your application that much to get straight B-'s in your preclinical courses, your step I score usually counts for more then your preclinical courses. The problem is that your step I score will probably correlate with your preclinical grades unless your med school is just bad at writing questions to test you, so low preclinical grades often predict a low step I score.

 

[VentdependenT]

Grades don't matter at all. Rank however does.

 

[Andrew_Doan]

C/PASS = M.D.

 

[jwin]

at my school in preclinical classes it seems to be about like this:

50% pass

35-40% high pass

10-15% honors

so it seems a "B" average is pretty unlikely during the 1st 2 years. i am guessing average performance is passing half and high passing half.

 

[nuclearrabbit77]

Originally posted by Andrew_Doan
C/PASS = M.D.

or for you c/pass=M.D./Ph.D.
👍

 

[nuclearrabbit77]

Originally posted by Andrew_Doan
C/PASS = M.D.

or for you c/pass=M.D./Ph.D.
👍

 

[nuclearrabbit77]

dude. my browser is schizo. dual posts 2hours apart? wtf?

 

[Bevo]

SPAMMER ! 😀

grades matter at Ross for some obvious reasons

and to keep out of the remedial semester on the island if after the basic sciences our gpa is less than or equal to 2.9

I think its up to 3.4 for the class that just started 😕 😱