 So if you want to know which medical schools are harder to get into than Harvard itself, stay tuned. Alright guys, welcome back to the channel. My name is Lakshman, internal medicine physician and resident in training. In today's video, we are going to talk all about some of the hardest medical schools to get into and I'm going to be breaking down some of their MCAT scores, their GPAs, as well as their acceptance rates. So let's get into it. And also stay tuned to the very end of the video because I'm going to talk about how you can use all of this data to help you possibly get into one of these medical schools if that's your goal. And the data used in this video all come from the US News 2020 report, which I'll link down below in case you guys are interested. But we're going to start from the bottom and work our way up. And at number 10, we have Harvard. Now you probably won't expect to me to talk about Harvard right off the bat at number 10 and you're probably now more curious than ever to hear about what schools went from number 9 to number 1, but it just goes to show you that there's going to be a lot of variability in both acceptance rates in the MCAT scores and the GPAs and can at the very end, we'll talk about why that's important for you. But at number 9, we have Wake Forest University with an acceptance rate of 3% and the GPA of 3.6 MCAT of 513. At number 8, we have George Washington University at 2.9% with the GPA of 3.6 and an average MCAT score of 512. Now we're back to a familiar name in the Ivy League industry at Brown University with an average acceptance rate of just 3.82% and an MCAT score of 515. Now to avoid this video just being a bunch of numbers, in case you're kind of wanting to know a sense of reference, the average MCAT score is for somebody who gets acceptance medical school is around a 510, 512. That number will always go up or down depending on the year. An average GPA tends to stick around a 3.7 to a 3.8. So at number 6, we have Howard University Medical School, which most of you guys may be familiar with, actual university, which is Howard University, and it's known to be one of the many historically black colleges that we have here in the United States. In terms of acceptance rate, they currently are sitting at a 2.5%. I wasn't able to find a consistent MCAT score GPA for this video, so I just kind of left it out and hopefully you guys can let me know in the comment section down below in case you do know. At number 5, we are back to a familiar name. We're talking about NYU with an average acceptance rate also of 2.5%. Average GPA of 3.93% and an average MCAT, this just blew my mind of 522. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't get into NYU today if I was to apply. And many of you guys may be familiar with NYU being one of the many institutions that are now kind of releasing this free med school tuition platform, and I'll link down below an article in case you guys are interested in learning more. But to continue to wrap up this list, at number 4, we have Mayo at 2.4%, average GPA of 3.92%, and another floridly high MCAT score of 520. And our final three medical schools in terms of hardest to get into are really just neck to neck in terms of their acceptance rate. But at number 3, we have UCLA at 2.4%, an average GPA of 3.85%, and an average MCAT score of 517%. At number 2, we have Stanford at 2.3% acceptance rate, an average GPA of 3.87, and an average MCAT score of 519. And so that leaves us with number one. Now hopefully you've dropped your comments down below because I know when I saw this institution on this list, I was pretty surprised, pretty floored, but with an average acceptance rate of 2.2%, average GPA of 3.7, and an average MCAT score of 506, we have, drumroll, Florida State University. So as you guys can see, and I'll put it up here, you can see the hardest medical schools to get into based off their acceptance rates. And the most important part about this list is not really where the schools are comparatively to each other. There's really two things. One, it's about the various lessons you can take away from this list, and two, how you can use those lessons to ideally increase your chances of getting into whatever school you aspire to go into, whether it be one of these or something outside the top 10. And so here are the various lessons that I was able to take away when investigating this list. And number one, the definition of the hardest medical school to get into is extremely relative. As you guys can see, there's institutions that you expected to be higher or even on the list that weren't. And some schools that you saw on the list that you probably won't even cross your top 10 or 20 in terms of your hardest medical schools to get into. But there's a lot that goes into the acceptance rate that a medical school reports. For example, one, it's gonna depend on how many people actually apply to that medical school. So if you have a really competitive Ivy League program, there's gonna be a lot of people and the acceptance rate, understandably, is gonna be pretty low. But on the flip side, you may be able to report the same low acceptance rate if, for example, you had a smaller medical school class. So if you had a thousand people applying to two different medical schools, or one medical school could only take 100 people and one medical school could take 200, really the competitiveness and the quality doesn't really say as much. You just know that one medical school may be smaller, but their acceptance rate looks like they're more competitive. And finally, you have to understand that the acceptance rate also doesn't only take account for how many people apply to the actual school, but also the values that the institution has. And this is really the most important part of this video. So listen up. Keep in mind, there's gonna be institutions that have a very specific value of what kind of student they want and what kind of future doctor they wanna create. For example, as you can imagine, an institution that's associated with a historically black college like Howard University is going to have a very particular candidate in mind in who they wanna make into a future physician. On the flip side, you're gonna have institutions that are very driven towards creating researchers and people who can contribute to the scientific community as a whole. And so when you have an institution that has a very specific mindset of who they want to take because of what they can offer that student that will also go into play at the acceptance rate. So all in all, don't use this list to understand which medical school you should be applying to or you don't have a chance to get into. Really understand that there is a whole spectrum of what a medical school can offer you and what you can offer them back. And so it is important to start thinking about what type of things you value. Do you wanna go into primary care? Do you wanna go into surgery? Do you wanna go into research? Do you wanna go into public health? There are gonna be institutions that are very specific to the various goals that you may have as a future physician. And if you don't know, that's completely okay. Just kind of ask yourself what parts of becoming a physician attracts you the most and then ask if the institutions you're most curious of possibly going into are able to offer that kind of experience for you. But this video does fit the theme where I share on the channel to all the premeds out there that you don't have to go to an Ivy League program or the hardest medical school ever that existed to become a great doctor. All of the medical schools out there are gonna be able to give you the proper training. There are definitely going to be different qualities and so it's important that you assess it based off of your specific needs. If you're watching this video and you have more premed related questions, go ahead and drop it in the comments section down below. I'll also link all of the premed related videos that we have here on the YouTube channel and on the podcast down below that you guys can check out. 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