selecting medscools to apply to based on stat

norcalguy
Sat, 03 Mar 2012 19:27:38 +0000

^I’d agree with that. Which is not to say you can’t apply to Harvard or JHU but unless the application is outstanding in some other way, 3.6/32 puts you squarely in that Boston U/Georgetown/Dartmouth kind of range.

jw, what is the source for your numbers, Kdog044? Those don’t look like MSAR numbers as I remember those numbers being much higher. The numbers you posted seem to underestimate the averages of many schools (Harvard with an average MCAT of 33?).

According to Northwestern’s (which is what I would consider a fringe top tier school) own website, their averages are 3.76, 34.8. I would venture that all other top 20 med schools have similar averages (with the exception of the UC’s).