top 3% gpa?

meestasi
Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:34:15 +0000

@swimmer726 - Where do you get this data from that the most competitive time for admission to medical school was in the 1970s? Do you possess MSARs from the past 40-50 years? AMCAS data only goes back to 1982, and graphs there show that the number of total applicants was highest in the mid-90s.

https://www.aamc.org/download/153708/data/charts1982to2011.pdf

Also, please tell me what economists/statistician has said that primary care physicians will earn the same as nurse practioners and physicians assistants. Currently, based off of mysalary.com estimates, PCPs and family physicians average about $170K/yr. NPs and PAs earn on average around $80-90K. This is a significant difference in wage scale. I don’t think salaries of NPs and PAs will increase significantly and I doubt that MD salaries will drop below six-figures. Current doctors like Sandeep Jauhar, wrote in his book, Intern, that most doctors will not become filthy rich anymore (a million/yr or more), but that salaries will fall more in line with the job specifications. Becoming a doctor does not make you a god and I think ones salary does not have to reflect that.

@LazyKid, as someone who hasn’t gone through the process of applying to medical schools, or isn’t on a medical school admissions committee, I think you are ill-suited to be offering advice on getting into a medical school. You are correct in trying to get a high GPA, but there is much more to the process.