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What % of applicants are considered “competitive”
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Not school-specific, but if you want to see what GPA/MCAT combinations are competitive overall, the LizzyM Score Calculator lets you see what percentage of matriculants fall into different ranges based on the AAMC data:
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Calculate your SDN LizzyM Score with GPA and current MCAT scaled into the original LizzyM range, compare the result with AAMC applicant outcome data, and find medical schools in the same reference band.
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What % of applicants are competitive?
So I'm reviewing the MSAR, and I'm wondering, of the 7000 students that applied to x school, how many of them actually have reasonable stats? I've seen some threads here where students will ask to rate their chances where they'll have MCATs under 500 with a low 3.0 GPA. Of the 7000 students, how...
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At any given school, I'd guestimate that at least 67% of applicants are strong enough to be interviewed and at least 90% of those interviewed are strong enough to be admitted. The pity is that we have room for only a fraction of them.
Does "strong enough to be admitted" simply mean "will probably be able to do the work and graduate on time"? The bar for that, as I understand it, is a lot lower than you might expect...something like 3.3 GPA and 502 MCAT. Not too sure about that, but I can definitely believe that lots of qualified applicants get rejected.
The "strong enough to be interviewed" varies by school and is likely to be not less than 2 points below of the school's average GPA and MCAT combined as in the LizzyM score. Along with that, in judging who would be "strong enough to interview", I'd be looking for having all the usual boxes checked (community service, clinical exposure, research, etc).
