Medical School Acceptance Calculator: Where Your Numbers Stand

This free calculator compares your GPA and MCAT with the published medians of 209 medical schools, and shows what happened nationally to applicants with your numbers in AAMC Table A-23. It does not give you an acceptance probability: no data available before you apply supports one.

How it works

Each school is grouped by how your GPA and MCAT compare with its published medians: at or above, near, reach, or unlikely. Separately, your GPA and MCAT are looked up in AAMC Table A-23 — a count of real applicants in your band and how many were accepted somewhere. Where a band holds few applicants, or your score sits on a band's edge, the calculator says so.

What else decides an application

• Residency and school list: many public schools mostly admit their own state's residents.
• Clinical experience: what you did with patients, not just hours.
• Service, shadowing and leadership: each is looked at separately.
• Writing: showing what you learned, not listing tasks.

Frequently Asked Questions

What GPA do I need to get into medical school?

There is no single GPA that gets you in, and AAMC publishes no minimum. Compare yourself with the medians of the schools you'll actually apply to, and with what happened nationally to applicants in your GPA and MCAT band. Strong numbers are not enough on their own: of 14,138 applicants with a GPA of 3.80 or higher and an MCAT of 518 or higher, 2,365 were not accepted to any MD school.

What percentage of medical school applicants get accepted?

About 45.1% of MD applicants are accepted to at least one school (AAMC Table A-23, 2023–2026 cycles). Any one school admits a much smaller share of its applicants, and public schools often favor their own state's residents, so where you apply matters as much as your numbers.

Can I get into medical school with a 3.5 GPA and 510 MCAT?

Of AAMC's 3,100 applicants with a 3.40–3.59 GPA and a 510–513 MCAT, 48.7% were accepted to at least one MD school (AAMC Table A-23, 2023–2026 cycles). That is a group outcome, not one applicant's chance: residency, school list, clinical experience and writing decide which side of it a given student lands on.

The free AesculaMD diagnostic goes beyond numbers: it reads where you stand in each of eight tracks — clinical, research, service, shadowing, leadership, letters, narrative and academics — and lays out a term-by-term plan.