<p>Rank the following college students in order of worst regarded applicant to best regarded applicant to medical schools, other things considered equal (same courses taken at the same times, same ECs, etc.):</p>
<p>Joseph:</p>
<p>First semester: 1.0 GPA.
Second Semester: 3.3 GPA.
Third Semester: 3.7 GPA.
Fourth Semester: 3.8 GPA
Fifth Semester: 3.8 GPA
Sixth Semester: 3.7 GPA
Seventh Semester: 3.7 GPA
Eighth Semester: 3.8 GPA</p>
<p>Culmulative: 3.35 GPA</p>
<p>Melissa:</p>
<p>First semester: 3.35 GPA
Second Semester: 3.35 GPA
Third Semester: 3.35 GPA
Fourth Semester: 3.35 GPA
Fifth Semester: 3.35 GPA
Sixth Semester: 3.35 GPA
Seventh Semester: 3.35 GPA
Eigth Semester: 3.35 GPA</p>
<p>Culmulative: 3.35 GPA</p>
<p>David:</p>
<p>First Semester: 3.0 GPA
Second Semester: 3.1 GPA
Third Semester: 3.3 GPA
Fourth Semester: 3.3 GPA
Fifth Semester: 3.6 GPA
Sixth Semester: 3.4 GPA
Seventh Semester: 3.6 GPA
Eighth Semester: 3.5 GPA</p>
<p>Culmulative: 3.35 GPA</p>
<p>Melanie:</p>
<p>First Semester: 3.8 GPA
Second Semester: 3.7 GPA
Third Semester: 3.6 GPA
Fourth Semester: 3.5 GPA
Fifth Semester: 3.3 GPA
Sixth Semester: 3.0 GPA
Seventh Semester: 2.9 GPA
Eigth Semester: 3.0 GPA</p>
<p>Culmulative: 3.35 GPA</p>
<p>Hublizie</p>
<p>First Semester: 2.8 GPA
Second Semester: 2.9 GPA
Third Semester: 3.1 GPA
Fourth Semester: 3.3 GPA
Fifth Semester: 3.5 GPA
Sixth Semester: 3.6 GPA
Seventh Semester: 3.7 GPA
Eigth Semester: 3.8 GPA</p>
<p>Culmulative: 3.35 GPA</p>
<p>Also, will any of them have a shot at getting into a medical school with these trends and GPAs?</p>
<p>no real point in ranking them. all of them will have a tough time getting in with that gpa, even with a really high mcat. the upward trending people have the best shot out of them.</p>
<p>upward trend generally wins, but it also depends on the courses. Were those junior-senior A’s were in Organic and Physics, and not underwater basket-weaving…? :)</p>
<p>I think Joseph is awesome. The rest are questionable.</p>
<p>Joseph better have had a documented tumor or at least a major bleed on his brain. The next three are dead in the water. The last dude is a dead man walking but…he could still get a call from the governor.</p>
<p>Why rank them? What is the purpose of this?</p>
<p>^To distinguish between applicants who have same GPAs but different trends: how would admissions officers view them? Would they see each applicant different because of the trends, or the same because of culmulative GPAs, etc.</p>
<p>As I’ve said before, med school adcoms are not comprised of chimps. They will pay at least a little attention to your app.</p>
<p>Unless either of these applicants are URMs, a GPA of 3.35 has a low chance of being accepted into medical school. The average applicant GPA is a 3.53 while the matriculant GPA is a 3.67. Either way, ranking these fictional people is moot.</p>
<p>^I think the trend has more influence than most people think. Joseph is not the same person he is in Senior Year as he was first semeter of Freshman year. Judging him solely based on his culmulative GPA isn’t a good indication of his abilities and talents, don’t you think? He’s more or less equal with those who have 3.7+ GPAs. He proved it. Why should one semester kill him? Should we just agree that anybody who had a slow start can just forget about becoming a doctor? “I’m sorry, because you were bad in your first semester, there’s no way you could’ve grown up, changed, and became a different and better person. We are not going to accept you. Next!”</p>
<p>^Its mainly because there are thousands of other applicants who averaged 3.7+ GPAs during their last 3 years AND they also did good their freshman year. </p>
<p>Joseph’s bad first year shows that he is probably bad at adjusting, and if he had trouble adjusting in undergrad, chances are he’ll have trouble adjusting in medical school too.</p>
<p>^Does that mean it’s better to fail the first semester of sophmore year than it is to fail the first semester of freshman year? (I know it is best not to fail any semester.)</p>
<p>1)Joseph
2)David
3)Hublizie
4)Melissa
5)Melanie</p>
<p>The placement of the middle 3 is debatable.</p>
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<p>This is a Hobson’s Choice…</p>
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<p>Exactly. Why should an adcom take anyone who failed a semester in college? Absent a really good excuse, (and besides death of a parent past the point of class withdrawl), there aren’t any, failure = failure, regardless of when it happened. There are too many other candidates with a 3.7/3.8+ earned evenly over four years. Some (many?) med schools have a (stats) cutoff prior to conducting an application read to allocate interview slots. A <3.5 will need a hook and/or an awesome mcat to get a look.</p>
<p>Any URM’s? If not, GPA is way too low.</p>