Worried about Pre-Med at MIT :(

molliebatmit
Sat, 05 Feb 2011 09:13:10 +0000

The latest premed data are [url=http://web.mit.edu/career/www/infostats/preprof.html]here[/url]. For the last admissions cycle, 94% of MIT undergrads who applied to medical school were accepted somewhere, and the average GPA of accepted students was 4.73/5.0.

The Careers Office used to publish the average GPA of applicants as well, and it was always within about a tenth of a point of the accepted average – there’s not a huge amount of selection for GPA going on among people who have made it so far as to be applying. (There is attrition among premeds at MIT, as anywhere – the data I’ve seen suggest that there are about 100 people who come in each year intending to be premed, and 69 applied in that cycle.)

Premed at MIT is tough, but most people who pursue that track are successful in their applications.

However, those stats are for people who got into any medical school, not just top medical schools. If you want to get into a top medical school, you have to be the very best, no matter where you are – if you are really top med school material, it won’t really matter where you go to school, because you will get a perfect or almost-perfect GPA or no matter where you are.