What does the Medical School Finder Do?
The Medical School
Finder compares your grades and MCAT scores to the average scores
for students accepted by each medical school in our database.
Using an algorythm that takes into consideration your grades and
MCAT scores, your primary state of residence, the average accepted
GPA and MCAT scores for medical schools, and their in- to out-of-state
acceptance ratio, the program produces a score of how competitive
your application would be at a given school. Negative scores are
"less competitive" than the average student accepted, positive
scores are "more competitive" than the average accepted medical
student.
Result Format
The results are color coded:
Very Competitive:
schools at which your GPA and MCAT scores are "very competitive"
are colored green.
Competitive: schools at which
your GPA and MCAT scores are "competitive" are colored blue.
Less Competitive: schools
at which your GPA and MCAT scores are "less competitive" are colored
red.
Clicking on the "Get Specifics" button below the name of the school
will give you a detailed breakdown of how your score was generated
from your information and the information of the specific school.
The calculated score is listed after the school name. Schools
are displayed from the lowest score (where your numbers are least
competitive) to the highest score (where your numbers are most
competitive).
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Disclaimer
The Medical School Finder is designed only as a tool to help you
learn more about medical schools you might be interested in applying
to. It cannot and does not gaurantee acceptance or rejection by
any school.
There are several limitations to the Medical School Finder. Some
of these limitations include:
- Not all US medical schools, and certainly
not all medical schools that accept US students, are included
in the medical school database.
- Scores have no relavence to international
or foreign applicants to US medical schools, since residency
requirements are very different for non-residents and non-citizens.
- While the algorythm is based on reasonable
assumptions and historical data, it cannot predict future trends
in medical school acceptances. The scores cannot be verified
objectively.
- Medical school acceptances are based on many
factors in addition to (and sometimes in spite of) GPA, MCAT
scores and primary residence. This algorythm does not take any
of these factors into account.
We hope the Medical School Finder is a useful
tool in organizing your approach to applying to medical school.
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