What's the average applicant's gpa and mcat?

[Unaka21]

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I know that accepted is around 3.6 and a 29 but what about an applicant's on average? Because there are actually a lot of not so bright people that end up applying.

 

[Nymphicus]

For US MD the average for an acceptance is about a 3.6-3.7 and a 32Q.

These averages have been creeping slightly upwards for the past few years.

 

[Unaka21]

That's accepted, right? What about just that apply.

 

[Pezistential]

Here is matriculant and applicant data from aamc:
https://www.aamc.org/download/161690/data/table17.pdf

Here is aacom applicant data from 2011:
http://www.aacom.org/data/applicantsmatriculants/Documents/2011-Applicants.pdf

And same year matriculant:
http://www.aacom.org/data/applicantsmatriculants/Documents/2011Matriculantsummary.pdf

TL; DR:
2011MD app: 28.2 MCAT, 3.43 sGPA, 3.53 GPA
2011MD mat: 31.1 MCAT, 3.61 sGPA, 3.67 GPA
2011DO app: 25.66 MCAT, 3.26 sGPA, 3.41 GPA
2011DO: mat: 26.51 MCAT, 3.36 sGPA, 3.48 GPA

Note the standard deviation on the applicant data in particular.

 

[Unaka21]

Thank you. It cleared things up 🙂