<p>Assuming I have a decent application (MCAT >=32, GPA >=3.5), can I almost assuredly get into a medical school in my home state? I ask because I recently got into both the BS/MD Drexel/Drexel program and Johns Hopkins University and I’m afraid that if I go to JHU I’ll end up not getting into any medical school.</p>
<p>Also, how random is the med school admissions process? By random I mean can most people with a 36 MCAT and a 3.8 GPA from a difficult university with sufficient extracurricular work still be rejected from every single medical school that they apply to?</p>
<p>West Virginia is my home state, and thanks for the link.</p>
<p>At the same time, you have to understand that the odds I discuss in that thread aren’t the same as the odds facing the kind of student who can get into a BS/MD program.</p>
<p>Those programs are extremely selective; in fact, they mimic medical school admissions processes pretty strongly. (As one would expect.) The kind of students who get into BS/MD programs are the same kind of students who make it into medical school at the end of the day even if they go elsewhere.</p>
<p>While only taking MCAT and GPA into consideration (and leaving out in-state and soft factors and rep of UG and assuming “white” - which I understand has not been disclosed and shouldn’t be assumed- and a bunch of other factors) this chart <a href=“http://www.aamc.org/data/facts/2008/MCATGPAgridWHITE.pdf[/url]”>http://www.aamc.org/data/facts/2008/MCATGPAgridWHITE.pdf</a> suggests a greater than 90% chance that the hypothetical 3.8/36 student will be admitted somewhere. </p>
<p>You can control the list of schools you apply to and to a certain extent the quality (or lack thereof) of the rest of your app. Do everything wrong except for the GPA and MCAT? You’d probably find a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. ;)</p>