Average MCAT Scores & GPAs for Top 100 Medical Schools

What MCAT Score Do I Need For Med-School Admission?

Based on the data as well as our experience with countless students we've helped get into medical school, the average MCAT Score required for most medical schools is at least 508-513 (25th percentile).

However, depending on the school this can vary quite a bit. That’s why we've created a full table of the average MCAT score and GPA of successful applicants for the top 100 medical schools in the United States.

Based on this information you should be able to better answer:

Where should I apply to maximize my chance of med-school admission?
Is my MCAT score good enough to get into med-school?
Is my GPA good enough to get into med-school?

Average GPA and MCAT Score for Top 100 Medical Schools (2023)

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Rank	Medical School	Average GPA	Average MCAT	Accept. Rate	Degree Type	State
1	Harvard Medical School	3.9	519.46	3.3%	MD	MA
2	Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	3.95	522	6%	MD	MD
3	Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania	3.92	522	4.4%	MD	PA
4	New York University School of Medicine	3.92	522	2.5%	MD	NY
4	Stanford University School of Medicine	3.89	518	2.3%	MD	CA
6	Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons	3.93	521	3.5%	MD	NY
6	Mayo Clinic School of Medicine (Alix)	3.92	520	2.4%	MD	AZ
6	University of California – Los Angeles	3.81	516	2.4%	MD	CA
6	University of California – San Francisco	3.87	517	3.8%	MD	CA
6	Washington University in St. Louis	3.87	520.3	8.2%	MD	MO
11	Cornell University (Weill)	3.91	519	5.1%	MD	NY
12	Duke University	3.9	519	4%	MD	NC
13	University of Washington	3.75	511	4.1%	MD	WA
14	University of Pittsburgh	3.83	516	5.4%	MD	PA
15	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	3.72	515	5%	MD	MI
15	Yale University	3.93	521	5.5%	MD	CT
17	University of Chicago (Pritzker)	3.87	519	4.3%	MD	IL
18	Northwestern University (Feinberg)	3.9	520	6.4%	MD	IL
18	Vanderbilt University	3.95	521	5.3%	MD	TN
20	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	3.81	519	5.7%	MD	NY
21	University of California- San Diego	3.77	516.15	3.8%	MD	CA
22	Baylor College of Medicine	3.92	518	4.9%	MD	TX
23	University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill	3.66	512	4%	MD	NC
24	Case Western Reserve University	3.78	518	7%	MD	OH
24	Emory University	3.7	514	4%	MD	GA
26	University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center	3.83	517	7%	MD	TX
27	University of Wisconsin-Madison	3.73	511	5.5%	MD	WI
28	Oregon Health and Science University	3.65	509	4%	MD	OR
29	Boston University	3.72	517	6.5%	MD	MA
29	University of Virginia	3.86	518.58	11.7%	MD	VA
31	University of Alabama - Birmingham	3.78	508.9	6%	MD	AL
31	University of Colorado	3.82	515	3.7%	MD	CO
31	University of Southern California (Keck)	3.8	517	4.6%	MD	CA
34	Ohio State University	3.82	514	5.7%	MD	OH
34	University of Iowa (Carver)	3.8	515	7.1%	MD	IA
34	University of Maryland	3.8	515	6.6%	MD	MD
34	University of Rochester	3.7	514	5.7%	MD	NY
38	Brown University (Alpert)	3.83	516	2.8%	MD	RI
38	University of Utah	3.87	514	4.7%	MD	UT
40	Albert Einstein College of Medicine	3.82	516	6.6%	MD	NY
40	University of California-Davis	3.58	510.52	4.3%	MD	CA
40	University of Florida	3.79	514	5.1%	MD	FL
40	University of Minnesota	3.72	509.8	4.9%	MD	MN
44	Georgetown University	3.63	512	2.9%	MD	DC
44	University of California - Irvine	3.78	514.5	4.0%	MD	CA
44	University of Cincinnati	3.74	515	8.9%	MD	OH
47	Indiana University-Indianapolis	3.82	512	8.6%	MD	IN
47	University of Massachusetts-Worcester	3.77	514	8.6%	MD	MA
47	University of South Florida	3.89	518	7.5%	MD	FL
50	Dartmouth College (Geisel)	3.77	516	3.9%	MD	NH
50	University of Miami (Miller)	3.75	514	4.3%	MD	FL
52	Wake Forest University	3.67	512	3.0%	MD	NC
53	Tufts University	3.71	514	4.6%	MD	MA
53	University of Connecticut	3.76	513	6.6%	MD	CT
55	University of Illinois	3.8	513	10.3%	MD	IL
55	University of Texas Health Science Center--San Antonio	3.87	517.6	7.1%	MD	TX
57	Thomas Jefferson University (Kimmel)	3.73	514	4.7%	MD	PA
58	George Washington University	3.7	512	2.9%	MD	DC
58	Medical University of South Carolina	3.7	511	15.5%	MD	SC
58	Rush University	3.65	511	4.5%	MD	IL
58	Stony Brook University-SUNY	3.8	515	8.2%	MD	NY
62	University of Arizona-Tucson	3.74	508	2.3%	MD	AZ
62	University of Hawaii	3.76	513	4.9%	MD	HI
62	University of Kansas Medical Center	3.88	510	8%	MD	KS
62	University of Nebraska Medical Center	3.85	512	10.1%	MD	NE
66	Temple University	3.74	512	4.9%	MD	PA
66	University of Vermont (Larner)	3.69	513	6.4%	MD	VT
68	University of Kentucky	3.65	507.5	11.3%	MD	KY
68	Virginia Commonwealth University	3.7	512	4.8%	MD	VA
70	Hofstra University	3.82	517	7.9%	MD	NY
70	Rutgers New Jersey Medical School-Newark	3.7	514	7%	MD	NJ
70	University of Oklahoma	3.81	509.43	7.7%	MD	OK
70	Wayne State University	3.8	514	5.6%	MD	MI
74	Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School-New Brunswick	3.64	512	5.4%	MD	NJ
74	Saint Louis University	3.86	512.22	7.7%	MD	MO
74	Texas A&M University	3.86	513	9.6%	MD	TX
74	University of Tennessee Health Science Center	3.89	512	12.1%	MD	TN
78	University of Louisville	3.65	507	7.9%	MD	KY
79	University at Buffalo--SUNY (Jacobs)	3.66	510	9.5%	MD	NY
79	University of Missouri	3.81	509	4.7%	MD	MO
81	University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences	3.84	509	16.5%	MD	AR
81	University of New Mexico	3.71	505	6.6%	MD	NM
81	Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine	3.6	512	2.3%	MD	VA
84	Augusta University	3.8	512	10.6%	MD	GA
84	SUNY Upstate Medical University	3.64	509.86	10.3%	MD	NY
84	University of Central Florida	3.81	513	5.3%	MD	FL
84	West Virginia University	3.75	511	2.8%	MD	WV
88	Loyola University Chicago (Stritch)	3.7	510	2.9%	MD	IL
88	University of Missouri-Kansas City	3.85	510	13.5%	MD	MO
90	Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center	3.78	509	11.6%	MD	TX
91	Drexel University	3.57	511	6.9%	MD	PA
91	University of California-Riverside	3.6	509	5.5%	MD	CA
91	University of South Carolina	3.7	511	6.6%	MD	SC
94	Cooper Medical School of Rowan University	3.77	511	3.4%	MD	NJ
94	East Carolina University (Brody)	3.54	506	12.4%	MD	NC
94	East Tennessee State University (Quillen)	3.75	510	6.3%	MD	TN
94	Eastern Virginia Medical School	3.5	511	6.4%	MD	VA
94	Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine	3.7	502	12.4%	DO	VA
94	Florida Atlantic University (Schmidt)	3.79	513	4.3%	MD	FL
94	Florida International University (Wertheim)	3.7	509	6.8%	MD	FL

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