Admission into Stanford is just as difficult as it is to Harvard. Of 6800 applications in 2020, 470 students were interviewed, 152 were accepted, and 90 students matriculated. In 2019, 7506 applicants led to 172 acceptances – a success rate of only 2.3%. This is actually marginally lower than Harvard’s rate of 3%. 72% of applicants are from out-of-state. The average GPA score is 3.89, and the average MCAT score is 519, meaning that students are, on average, on the 97th percentile of the MCAT.
56% of the entering class of 2020 were women, and 38% came from under-represented in Medicine backgrounds, including Hispanic, African American or other ethnic minorities. There were two veterans, 14 NCAA student athletes, 12% first generation college students, and 37% full scholarship recipients. The top feeder schools were Stanford, providing 12 students, Harvard, which provided 8, and Penn, Columbia and Yale. Undergrad majors included subjects as disparate as Comp Sci, Religious Studies, Spanish, Neuroscience and Public Health.
The School explains that it seeks candidates who ‘want to move the fields of Medicine and biomedical sciences forward,’ who show evidence of being original and creative thinkers, who are academically ready and who have the right personal qualities to succeed in Medicine.