<p>^The MIT Careers Office used to publish the average GPAs of med school applicants as well as admitted students, and while there was obviously a small amount of selection for higher GPAs and against lower GPAs, the applicant average and admitted average were only about 0.1 point apart – GPA, then, does not seem to be the factor standing in the way of unsuccessful applicants. (Though I agree that some number of people with low GPAs are applying just to apply.)</p>
<p>Of course, the latest statistics say that 74% of applicants are accepted somewhere, but 83.6% of undergraduate applicants are accepted somewhere. This implies that the alum and graduate student applicants are on average weaker than the undergraduate applicants.</p>