Thursday, November 29, 2007

Medical School Stats for 2007-2008

Medical School statistics for the 2007-2008 year have been published. Some of the highlights are as follows:

• First-time applications reached and unprecedented level growing more than 8% over last year to 31,946 applicants
• MCAT scores were the highest ever with the mean of 28
• The GPA mean was also higher at 3.5 up from 3.4 last year
• Nationally, the entering students reached nearly 17,800 and increase of 2.3 percent
• Osteopathic school enrollment followed a similar pattern

One associate dean stated “millennial student’s want to help others. They are smart and have a lot of time studying math and science in primary and secondary school. They feel they can improve society and what better way to do that then medicine”

It is good to know that we continue to have high caliber students choosing the field of Medicine.

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