<p>I was wondering what is the range (lower and upper quartiles) for the required GPA to get into a descent or a pretty good medical school. I am not sure what the exact GPA for my friend is who asked me to post this thread for him but to make an educated guess it is between 3.25-3.5. This person is currently junior and is wanting to know what Medical Schools take a 3.25-3.5 GPA for admission </p>
<p>I appreciate any help</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>P.S: If someone could also tell me what is the least possible GPA to get accepted medical school in general would be helpful as well! Thanks</p>
<p>Is he or she an URM? From a very challenging top school? Without knowing his/her MCAT scores and whether he/she has a significant EC, it is hard to say anything. This is because it is said a high MCAT may tromp a lower GPA, and a great EC can tromp most other things.</p>
<p>I heard an applicant with >3.6 or 3.65 GPA (forget which one, and with a sGPA slightly lower) from any college is considered as a competitive applicant to many non-top medical schools (maybe with the exception of California schools), assuming his MCAT/EC has no great deficiency.</p>
<p>Most medical schools take state aid. As a result, you have a much better chance getting into a medical school in your state than getting in medical schools elsewhere.</p>
<p>My experience is that getting into the medical school located at your own university is essentially impossible due to the fact that most have 6 year combined programs that “use up” the spots for graduates from the University.</p>
<p>If you are an interesting person, accomplished outside of academics, or have special skills, medical schools will take you with a B average. If you are just a run of the mill student with a B average and nothing else special you will probably have some difficulties.</p>
<p>she is very involved with her cultural events so she is apart of all these indian-american organizations (asian indian) like the ISA (indian students association) and stuff like that… she helped sponsor an event called the sugar free bowl where ut austin football players sponsor a football game for the juvenile diabetes foundation</p>
<p>UT Austin does not have its affiliated medical school. UT Austin is likely a top-5 producer of medical school applicants, in terms of abosolute numbers. (Other top producers may be some top UC schools like Berkeley and UCLA.)</p>
<p>Assuming she is a texas resident, I think she may have a decent chance to get into some lower-ranked textas public school, if her MCAT is good enough (e.g., >= 29). Has she considered any DO school? There is a good one north of Dallas (UNT, I think).</p>
<p>Well…How would I know for sure? DS is still fighting for one seat somewhere as of today.</p>
<p>^^^ Reputation of a school won’t make up for a low gpa. </p>
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^^^ That is a HUGE gpa gap, if the “friends” gpa is around a 3.5 then she may have a chance at a M.D. school in Texas, however, if the gpa is around a 3.3, start looking at D.O. schools.</p>
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<p>Its still pretty early in the process, and if I remember correctly your child had a very impressive resume, so I am sure acceptances are on their way.</p>
<p>^ He does not have an impressive resume if two numbers are removed from his resume This does remind me that I need to tell DS that he needs to update his resume for his premed committee. DS asked us to remind him of this. (He is good at delegating this kind of job to us. Another example is to ask us questions like “When do I need to start to work on these secondaries?” It is as if we were more knowledgeable than him; while we have never logged onto AMCAS or TMDSAS site, he is the one who has access to these – We do not have an account there of course.)</p>
<p>I heard the JAMP program at many texas schools may take away many admission slots from the “regular” applicants. I wonder how may they are each year. (like 40 for each public medical school?) One downside of going to UT Austin may be that this kind of program is not available to their students. I guess this is because kids from UT Austin are considered to be already “privileged” in Texas.</p>
<p>UT Southwestern Medical School is the affiliated medical school to UT Austin.
Plans are in the works to open an ancillary UT Southwestern Medical School to cover year one and maybe year two in Austin within 5 years.</p>
Are you sure about this? I always thought it is more likely affiliated with UT Dallas. I even suspect that UTSW may give the students from UT Dallas a little bit break, considering the fact that UTSW takes more students from UT Dallas than Baylor School of Medicine would take from the same undergraduate. The ratio could be as high as 4 to 1, even though the admission standard between these two medical schools are not that different.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, UT Austin is the top dog in Texas, with the exception of Rice. So it sends many students to UTSW and Baylor.</p>
<p>eadad or curm would know this much better than I would.</p>
<p>The reputation of your undergrad factors in. Anything above 3.45 at Notre Dame is ~96% matriculation rate. I’m sure its not that high for a 3.4 GPA at a state school.</p>
<p>None of the UT System Medical Schools are specifically affiliated with any Universities. It’s more of just a network that all co-mingles. </p>
<p>How do I know? I work there and have done tons of reading.</p>
<p>The biggest reason so many kids from the UT’s get into UT Med schools is because of our top 10% rule for undergraduate admission. If you’re in the top 10% of your high school, you are guaranteed to get into any UT you want. So many of the brightest students go there by default, whether for financial reasons or whatever else.</p>
<p>I think several of the top ten kids in my graduating class went to UTD because it was right down the street from my high school. </p>
<p>They also are under the same government umbrella, so the UT med schools have a natural preference towards UT system kids, ESPECIALLY those who are URM’s. There are lots of them. </p>
<p>UTSW has such a high mean GPA because their classes are Texas residents for the vast majority. That means those that come from outside are the creme de la creme of the applicant pool, and usually had something really awesome going on to get them in.</p>
<p>But trust me when I say UTSW loves UT system grads, it came straight from the mouth of a member on the admissions committee whom I spoke to face to face. They know the curriculum, and they know how it’s taught, and they probably even have some influence on it.</p>
<p>^^^ I don’t think your statement makes sense. Are you saying that UT affiliated medical schools give preference to kids who went to a UT school (UTA, UT-Austin, UT-Dallas). If that is the case, I am pretty sure that is not true. Now if you were saying that UTSW gives preference to Texas residents, then yes I agree with you. They may say they “love” UT system grads, but there is no data showing that they prefer UT system kids. Look at eadad’s post where he provides links and data that shows how much geographic diversity his son’s class at UTSW has. </p>
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^^^ There is no causation or correlation associated with being a Texas resident and attaining a high gpa. They are independent of each other.</p>
<p>UTSW is the flagship school of the UT med school system which might explain why some would think it’s affiliated with UT Austin but it has no affiliation to it or to UTD.</p>
<p>UTSW is the only med school between the Mississippi River and California ranked in the top twenty in both USNWR rankings and their stock is rising.</p>
<p>Science Watch ranks academic institutions (all institutions of higher education, not just academic medical centers) by the impact of the scientific papers of their respective faculties. </p>
<p>There are nine subdivisions. UTSW does not have academic programs that would contribute to three of those subdivisions: agricultural sciences, plant and animal sciences or environment/ecology…of the remaining six subdivisions, UT Southwestern is in the top ten in four subdivisions and ranked #1 in two.</p>
<p>There are only three schools that rank in the top 10 of those same subdivisions: UT Southwestern, Harvard and the University of California at San Francisco.</p>
<p>It would necessitate URM status to get into UTSW with a 3.25 even with a good MCAT…3.5 and strong MCAT certainly would improve your friend’s chances though like others, still think that she would be a better applicant at others schools in the system like Texas Tech if her GPA is between 3.25 and 3.5. Without URM status her GPA really needs to be above 3.5 with a strong MCAT and strong overall resume to be a good candidate for UTSW.</p>
<p>She just signed up for undergrad research with a professor who she is very fond with and he is also fond of her in molecular/cell biology… she wants to how important are recommendations when it comes to medical school?</p>
<p>Will recommendations have somewhat of a “making up” effect if she brings her GPA up to at least a 3.6 … she took the July 26 MCAT and got an 11.7 R … I don’t know what that means but is that good or bad?</p>
This does remind me that I need to tell DS that he needs to update his resume for his premed committee. DS asked us to remind him of this. (He is good at delegating this kind of job to us. Another example is to ask us questions like “When do I need to start to work on these secondaries?” It is as if we were more knowledgeable than him; while we have never logged onto AMCAS or TMDSAS site, he is the one who has access to these – We do not have an account there of course.)</p>