selecting medscools to apply to based on stat

col2cal
Sat, 03 Mar 2012 14:20:34 +0000

Will it be any use to send apps to some of the high ranked medschools if their average (matriculants) mcat and gpa are way out of range? Wouldn’t it be just a waste of money and time by applying to such schools at all? Say for a student with 32 MCAT and 3.6 GPA from a lower ranked ivy school to even try schools with average matriculant’s mcat (35) and gpa (3.8 or 3.9) ?? Any experience or knowledge you could share will be very much appreciated.