Public school students and acceptances...

Ky-anh_Tran
Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:10:43 +0000

After having checked on mdapplicants, I have noticed that people from texas public schools who got accepted (UT austin, Texas A&M, Texas Tech) consistently have a higher GPA (usually from 3.85 to 3.99) and very high MCATs (33-37) compared to other students who got accepted to the same medical schools (most students who got accepted from Duke, vanderbilt and other private institutions got 3.4 to 3.8 GPA and MCAT is slightly above 30)

I thought that maybe, medical schools “require” stellar GPAs and MCATs (compared to the average matriculant) from students from texas public schools. Is it right?
Or is there a kind of discrimination against public schools?
Does medical school “expect” a higher GPA for students from texas public schools (do you need a GPA higher than 3.95 to impress admission offices)?
BDM once made a thread that there was an inequity in GPA&MCAT (he used MIT and Duke as examples), so I wondered if it is the same for public vs private (reknowned) schools.
Any comments/facts/statistics/insights are welcome, Thanks!