Schools with hard cut-offs?

[ApplicationAnxietatem]

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Does anyone have a compiled list of schools with hard cut-offs? Essentially meaning if the system reads your uGPA/sGPA as being less than "x" that application is essentially voided. My uGPA is around 2.6-2.7 with my sGPA being around 2.8. Also, do any schools do MCAT sub-section cut-offs? I received a 126 on the CARS.

This GPA is including a year of science courses I took after undergrad with roughly a 3.7 GPA, but unfortunately does not include the two years of med school and graduate-level courses I took with a 4.0 GPA.

I've made a WAMC thread in the past and have received recommended school lists but I'm hoping to gain more information on which schools will straight up throw out my application without taking a loot at my graduate school performance and MCAT.

Thank you!

 

[Goro]

Best to contact some Admissions deans; also, check school admissions websites

 

[hamiltonnyc]

Here's one, fresh off the press David Geffen School of Medicine raises admission standards, incites controversy

 

[ApplicationAnxietatem]

Here's one, fresh off the press David Geffen School of Medicine raises admission standards, incites controversy

Big oof.

 

[Ad2b]

Pay for the AAMC MSAR and look at schools of interest. You can also filter it by moving the average MCAT score and/or the GPA bars to get your best fit schools.

It's not an end-all/be-all but should give you some pretty good insight to where you'd have a chance

 

[esob]

Some schools will outline their process (like UTRGV) and make it public, but most schools don't publish the data which means either they don't have hard cut-offs or, more likely, they are simply unwilling to advertise them so that they can collect money from secondaries (AKA the hope tax). I doubt that few if any schools have a hard cutoff for cars that is above a 126, so you should be alright for that.

Your GPA is likely going to get you autoscreened at a lot of schools, however. The lowest median GPA that MSAR publishes for US medical schools (excluding HBCU's) is a 3.67. Their 10th percentile is a 3.23, so they probably have some outliers with monster MCAT scores or something super interesting like being an ex-fighter pilot. It sounds like you did an SMP already, so if you fared well in it then your best bet is to apply to schools that traditionally have been friendly to the graduates of that program.