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Perfect GPA. Perfect MCAT. Still rejected.
Imagine doing everything right.
A 4.0.
A near perfect MCAT.
Hundreds of research hours.
Years of volunteering.
And then, not one school says yes.
It happens. Every year. To applicants who did almost everything they were told. The AAMC has reported that even among applicants with the highest MCAT and GPA combination, more than one in ten were admitted nowhere in a recent cycle.
A low score is not the scary story. The scary story is the flawless file that still made no case, that cleared every bar and never gave a reader one reason to remember it. Stats get your file opened. They do not decide it, and most applicants cannot tell whether theirs makes a case or just clears a screen.
Source: AAMC FACTS, Table A-23 (MCAT and GPA Grid for Applicants and Acceptees to U.S. Medical Schools).
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An estimate based on the information you enter. Not a prediction of any admissions decision, and not advice from any school.
These findings come from published admissions information and do not predict any individual's admissions outcome.