<p>@Poplicola. Congratulations on your Phi Beta Kappa! At Chicago, that is truly an accomplishment. </p>
<p>@artsloverplus. You still amaze me with your anecdotal “evidence”. I may have been quoting a slightly lower average GPA range from 5 years ago. Now for top schools it is more like 3.72-3.87. I live in the Bay Area and I know several students who got into Stanford and UCSF without perfect GPAs…most of the students applying from tough undergraduate schools like Chicago, Princeton, MIT, Caltech, Stanford, Harvard, Yale tend to have lower GPAs which are “adjusted” up by most medical schools and those who apply from lesser schools with easy 4.0 GPAs get adjusted down. It is not unusual for many of the state school kids to have 4.0 and top MCAT scores…but it is rare for students from elite colleges to have 4.0 GPA as “premeds”.</p>
<p>Many many more students from state schools apply to medical schools than from elite schools and the average GPAs and MCAT scores are biased toward these students…but that doesn’t mean they have an easier chance of getting into the top schools…</p>
<p>…as I have said before, the top medical schools are very holistic in their admission policies just like their respective undergraduate admissions are.</p>
<p>Here is some evidence:
[US</a> Medical Schools: MCAT Scores and GPA](<a href=“http://www.mcattestscores.com/usmedicalschoolsmcatscoresGPA.html]US”>US Medical Schools: MCAT Scores and GPA)</p>