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Choosing Schools: Top-Ranked Schools

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Top-ranked Primary Care US Medical Schools

U. of Washington (Seattle)
Oregon Health and Science
North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Colorado-Denver
Vermont
UC-San Francisco
Baylor
Harvard
Iowa
Minnesota
UC-Los Angeles
Dartmouth
UMass-Worcester
Wisconsin-Madison
Washington U. (St. Louis)
East Carolina
Michigan-Ann Arbor
Rochester
Nebraska
Pittsburgh
Michigan State
Brown
MU South Carolina
Missouri-Columbia
Indiana-Indianapolis
Johns Hopkins

UC-Davis
Texas Southwestern
Albert Einstein
Ohio State
New Mexico
UPenn
Utah
Mayo
Arkansas
UC-San Diego
Maryland
Virginia
Wake Forest
Duke
Tufts
Alabama-Birmingham
UConn
Kansas
Emory
MC Wisconsin
Vanderbilt
Case Western
Northwestern
Chicago Pritzker
Loyola
UC-Irvine

* Ranking schools can be very arbitrary and misleading (see Choosing Schools). However, criteria such as the percentage of graduates going into Primary Care or the amount of federal (NIH) grants received to support research can be useful in the overall process of exploring what different schools may have to offer.

Schools that reported GPAs or MCAT scores that were roughly one standard deviation below the mean for all schools are listed below. It is essential to emphasize the relatively narrow range of scores, and that many of the schools on this list could be a perfect match for you based on factors other than GPA or MCAT scores. Nevertheless, a useful way to think about this list is to make sure that you investigate and think about applying to at least some of these schools, assuming you can meet their residency (if any) requirements.

Schools whose GPA or MCAT scores were discernibly lower than the national average

Albany
Del Caribe
Drexel
East Carolina
Eastern Virginia
George Washington
Howard
Marshall
Meharry
Mercer

Michigan State
Morehouse
New York Medical
North Dakota
Ponce
Puerto Rico
Rush
San Juan Bautista
Tulane
Uniformed Services

Please note that in the above analyses of admissions criteria, neither MCAT nor GPA data was available for the following school:

Central Florida
Florida International
Missouri-Kansas City

 

It is absolutely essential that you are aware of residency requirements and preferences given to in-state applicants. The following list orders schools according to the percentage of the enrolling class (2007) comprised by in-state applicants, extending from 100% to greater than 80%. Be aware that although residency requirements may apply, there is a wide range in the stringency of such requirements. Even if you do not meet the residency requirements of a school in which you are interested, it is worth looking into what you have to do to meet those requirements.

Schools whose percentage of the 2007 matriculating class comprised by in-state applicants was greater than 80%

East Carolina

100

Florida State

100

LSU-Shreveport

100

Mississippi

100

Southern Illinois

100

Arizona

99

UC-Davis

98

UMass

98

Mercer

98

Northeastern Ohio

98

UC-Irvine

97

Puerto Rico

97

Florida

96

MC Georgia

96

New Mexico

96

Texas-Galveston

96

Texas-Houston

96

LSU-New Orleans

95

Missouri-Columbia

95

Tennessee

95

South Dakota

93

Texas Tech

93

UC-San Diego

92

New Jersey

92

Washington (Seattle)

92

Wright State

92

MU South Carolina

91

South Florida

91

Texas A&M

91

Texas-San Antonio

90

Wayne State

90

Alabama

89

UC-Los Angeles

88

East Tennessee

88

Oklahoma

88

South Alabama

88

Kansas

87

UConn

86

Robert Wood Johnson

86

Stony Brook

86

Indiana

85

San Juan Bautista

85

SUNY Downstate

85

North Carolina

84

Rush

84

Arkansas

83

Minnesota

83

SUNY Buffalo

83

Texas-Southwestern

83

Nebraska

82

Nevada

82

Maryland

81