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Medical School

In recent years, UCSC students who applied to medical school with MCAT scores and a GPA similar to the national average were accepted at a rate of 40% - 50%.  Most students who had competitive scores but who did not gain entry into medical school were able to strengthen their applications through additional community service, or work experience and gained admissions the following year.

Statistical information for UCSC students gaining entry for the 2007 medical school year is as follows:

UCSC Students Average GPA: 3.61 National Average: 3.65

UCSC Students Average MCAT: 29.6P National Average 29.2O

Statistical information for UCSC students gaining entry for the 2006 medical school year is as follows:

UCSC Students Average GPA: 3.55 National Average: 3.64

UCSC Students Average MCAT: 31.5P National Average 28.70

Osteopathic Medical School

National averages for students gaining entry for the 2006 class. Information provided by AACOM.

MCAT

BIOLOGY PHYSICAL SCIENCES VERBAL
8.74 8.13 8.41

GPA

SCIENCE NON-SCIENCE OVERALL
3.37 3.55 3.45

 

Dental School

National Averages for 2007
2007 Total Dental School Applicants: 13,742
2007 Total Dental School Enrollees: 4,618
Average GPA's Enrollees: 3.48 science/3.54 overall
Average DAT's Enrollees: 19.4 academic average/18.7 overall

2007 Statistical information for Enrollees of California Dental Schools

School

Mean Dat

Academic Average

Mean Dat

Perceptual Ability

Mean Dat

Total Science

Mean GPA

Overall

Mean GPA

Science

Loma Linda 19.5 20.0 19.6 3.50 3.44
UCLA 20.0 20.0 22.00 3.65 3.65
UCSF 20.0 20.0 21.0 3.70 3.69
USC 19.0 19.0 19.0 3.45

3.39

UOP 20.0 20.0 20.0 3.38 3.31
Western N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

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For all other allied health fields please check appropriate Web sites for admission statistics.

 

WHERE HAVE UCSC STUDENTS BEEN ACCEPTED? Following is a partial list of schools UCSC students have been accepted to since 2004 to present.


Medical (MD & DO)

California
Charles R. Drew U of Medicine and Science
Loma Linda U School of Medicine
UC Davis School of Medicine
UC Irvine School of Medicine
UC Los Angeles School of Medicine
UC San Diego School of Medicine
UC San Francisco School of Medicine
Western COM
Touro COM


Colorado
U of Colorado
Rocky Vista U COM


Connecticut
Yale


District of Columbia
George Washington
Howard
Georgetown


Florida
U of Miami
Nova Southeastern U COM


Georgia
Emory
Morehouse

Hawaii
U of Hawaii John A. Burns

Illinois
U of Illinois at Chicago
Northwestern
Rosalind Franklin
Loyola
U of Chicago

Iowa
U of Iowa


Maryland
Uniformed Services
Johns Hopkins


Massachusetts
Boston U
Harvard
Tufts


Michigan
Michigan State U
Wayne State
Missouri
St. Louis
Washington U


Nebraska
Creighton
U of Nebraska

Nevada
U of Nevada
Touro

Hew Hampshire
Dartmouth

New Jersey
UMDNJ New Jersey

New Mexico
U of New Mexico

New York
Albany
Albert Einstein
Columbia
Mt. Sinai
NYM

 

SUNY Downstate
SUNY Upstate
U of Rochester
Weill – Cornell


North Carolina
Wake Forest
U of North Carolina


Ohio
Case Western Reserve
Med U of Ohio
Ohio State
U of Cincinnati


Oregon
Oregon Health Science U


Pennsylvania
Drexel
Jefferson Medical College
Penn State
Temple
U of Pittsburgh
U of Penn


Rhode Island
Brown


Tennessee
U of Tennessee


Vermont
U of Vermont


Virginia
U of Virginia
Virginia Medical School
Virginia Commonwealth


Washington
U of Washington
Pacific Northwest U of Health Sciences COM


West Virginia
West Virginia U


Wisconsin
Med College of Wisconsin
U of Wisconsin


Foreign Medical Schools
St George’s U, Grenada
Guadalajara, Mexico
Saba, Netherlands- Antilles
Ross, West Indies
American U of the Caribbean, St Maarten Netherlands-Antilles
Adelaide, Southern Australia

 

VETERINARY SCHOOLS (CALIFORNIA ONLY)
UCD
Western

DENTAL SCHOOLS
Loma Linda
UCSF
UOP
New York Univ

NURSING SCHOOLS
Western
Johns Hopkins
Samuel Merritt