What % of applicants are really uncompetitive

[anonymousername]

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So we all know that 50-55% of applicants are rejected each year from all the Medical Schools they apply to, but does anyone know how many of these people are just uncompetitive applicants that have a low chance of getting in anyway?

(By that I mean GPA < 3.5 MCAT < 30)

 

[MedBoundForSure]

For chances I would say GPA <3.3 and MCAT <28 to really represent the the chance of getting into any school regardless of rank etc.

 

[bannie22]

Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

 

[BlueElmo]

How would we know? Maybe we can ask AAMC for data or something.

 

[Drrrrrr. Celty]

So we all know that 50-55% of applicants are rejected each year from all the Medical Schools they apply to, but does anyone know how many of these people are just uncompetitive applicants that have a low chance of getting in anyway?

(By that I mean GPA < 3.5 MCAT < 30)

Realisticly some competitive candidates do fail to get into medical school. If you fail to apply to schools at your level then you'll be screwed. If you fail to apply early you'll be screwed, if your lacking in proper EC's your screwed. Finally and probably the biggest reason competitive candidates dont get in, lady luck wasnt on there side.

Statistically speaking... I couldn't possibly know because i dont have that data hahaha... I'll give a guess that out of the 50% who fail to get in.. 40% are actually uncompetative, 10% are simply unlucky.

 

[gujubond]

So we all know that 50-55% of applicants are rejected each year from all the Medical Schools they apply to, but does anyone know how many of these people are just uncompetitive applicants that have a low chance of getting in anyway?

(By that I mean GPA < 3.5 MCAT < 30)

Someone a while back in this forum had asked this question, and I remember someone else listed a report by AAMC (my best attempt to cite my sources).

anyways, i found the link:
http://www.aamc.org/data/facts/applicantmatriculant/table24-mcatgpa-grid-3yrs-app-accpt.htm

its 05-07 aggregated data, but gives you a break down of gpa and mcat score applicants and acceptees.

I would argue that 3.5, 30 is still pretty competitive, as it is within the 25-75 percentile range of most schools. I agree with the other poster that 3.3/28 ceiling is a better value. So using the AAMC data, the cutoffs I used were 3.19gpa, and 26mcat. pooling all the numbers of apps below those two stats, there are 12,320 applicants that are "uncompetitive," which is 10.74% of the 114,712 total apps.
Note: this does include data for re-applicants. So you could say that with 46.1% acceptance and 10.74% "uncompetitive," that 43.16% of competitive applicants are rejected.

 

[apumic]

The data to answer your question are out there if you do your own research instead of asking us to do it for you/offer unfounded opinions. Just sayin...

 

[bannie22]

You shouldnt tho.
Because that data is REALLLY useless.

Why do you want to know how many students are REALLLY uncompetitive?

 

[thamsenman]

Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

bannie, seriously, see a psychiatrist.

Anyone who gets into Mt Sinai, BU, and Northwestern is clearly, unequivocally, absurdly a competitive applicant.

 

[apumic]

You shouldnt tho.
Because that data is REALLLY useless.

Why do you want to know how many students are REALLLY uncompetitive?

haha. I agree. Not particularly helpful for much of anything when used to determine something like the OP's question....but... if that's what s/he'd like to know...the answer can be found.

 

[bannie22]

haha. I agree. Not particularly helpful for much of anything when used to determine something like the OP's question....but... if that's what s/he'd like to know...the answer can be found.

thou art the sheetmaster
time to put your expertise to use 😀👍