"stats" schools

[crazymedgirl]

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I have heard that there are some schools that are known for looking at stats (GPA, MCAT) more strongly than other components of the application, such as ECS. Meaning that if someone had a 3.8 plus GPA and say, a 37/38 MCAT but not terrific ECs, they'd have a good chance. Is this true? Does anyone know which schools are typically labeled like this?

I'd appreciate any comments!

 

[RySerr21]

Ucsd

And this is a very general comment, but most of your top US news ranked schools are gonna be number happy.

 

[stixx]

WashU is what most people say

 

[AlanAlanine]

whoooooo? WashU!

 

[flip26]

I have heard that there are some schools that are known for looking at stats (GPA, MCAT) more strongly than other components of the application, such as ECS. Meaning that if someone had a 3.8 plus GPA and say, a 37/38 MCAT but not terrific ECs, they'd have a good chance. Is this true? Does anyone know which schools are typically labeled like this?

I'd appreciate any comments!

Are you in this situation?

Or are you still early in your UG? If yes, then buckle down and get some "terrific" ECs.

Because I don't know what you mean by "not terrific ECs" but that is easily rectifiable through volunteering and shadowing, so it is not a good idea to count on knocking the top out of GPA and MCAT in the hopes that you can slide by without good ECs...

You have to be the total applicant to be competitive. GPA and MCAT will not make up for inadequate ECs or any other deficiencies on your app.

 

[Textuality]

I second WashU.
I think their median mcat is like 3 or 4 points higher than many of the other top tier, which is saying something.

 

[hal9000]

WashU

Edit: haha... looks like it's a consensus...

 

[starl3tte]

Ucsd

And this is a very general comment, but most of your top US news ranked schools are gonna be number happy.

Not doubting you, but just wondering - is that based on personal experience?

 

[nontrdgsbuiucmd]

Kind of fuzzy on the question being honestly asked or not..

Schools have an academic screen. To check roughly what it is, check the MSAR 10th percentile, US Allo schools will all be around 3.4 or higher, with the sole exception being PR schools or instate-strongly-preferred public schools. And the MCAT 10th percentile will be in the 9 range per section for every school.

Meaning regardless of ANY ecs, whatever they may be, if you have a 3.0 and a 25 MCAT you're not going to be attending a US allo school. (excluding legacies and special cases like that)

Maybe the question is intended to be: which schools have the highest minimums before they will start really looking at ECs? If this is the question, then yes, probably Washu & Hopkins would be among the highest/most stat-conscious.

For now, given the number of applicants to each school, med schools do not have to choose if they want someone with great stats or someone with lots of clinical experience or great ECs, they have plenty of candidates with great stats AND great ECs/clinical experience, to be competitive, it's necessary to have all of the above.

 

[AlanAlanine]

Kind of fuzzy on the question being honestly asked or not..

Schools have an academic screen. To check roughly what it is, check the MSAR 10th percentile, US Allo schools will all be around 3.4 or higher, with the sole exception being PR schools or instate-strongly-preferred public schools. And the MCAT 10th percentile will be in the 9 range per section for every school.

Meaning regardless of ANY ecs, whatever they may be, if you have a 3.0 and a 25 MCAT you're not going to be attending a US allo school. (excluding legacies and special cases like that)

Maybe the question is intended to be: which schools have the highest minimums before they will start really looking at ECs? If this is the question, then yes, probably Washu & Hopkins would be among the highest/most stat-conscious.

For now, given the number of applicants to each school, med schools do not have to choose if they want someone with great stats or someone with lots of clinical experience or great ECs, they have plenty of candidates with great stats AND great ECs/clinical experience, to be competitive, it's necessary to have all of the above.

sigh. true that...

 

[Textuality]

For now, given the number of applicants to each school, med schools do not have to choose if they want someone with great stats or someone with lots of clinical experience or great ECs, they have plenty of candidates with great stats AND great ECs/clinical experience, to be competitive, it's necessary to have all of the above.

Yup, I also feel like with the number of very competitive non-traditional applicants out there that have years of great EC's behind them and admirable stats, it makes the applicant pool that much richer for the adcoms to choose from. My class has 40% nontraditionals, which I do think speaks to how much schools do appreciate ECs.