The Entering Class of 2024

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The Entering Class of 2024

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  • 124 students
    • 65 women; 59 men
    • 105 MD students; 19 MD/PhD students
  • Mean grade point average (GPA) of 3.92
  • Mean MCAT total score of 519.19 (96th percentile)
  • 5,452 highly qualified applicants; 1,026 interviewed
  • Originated from 27 states and 3 countries
  • 65 different undergraduate institutions
  • 67% have full tuition funding
  • 89% have merit and/or need-based scholarships

Undergraduate institutions represented — 2015-2024

WashU Medicine matriculates students from a wide variety of very competitive schools.  In the last five years, 51 different schools contributed three or more matriculants and 162 schools contributed at least one matriculant.

The table below presents only those universities and colleges contributing three or more students to the WashU entering medical school classes in the 2015-2024 decade.  

University/CollegeTotal
Amherst College4
Boston College 3
Bowdoin College 4
Brandeis University 4
Brigham Young University 14
Brown University 13
Carnegie Mellon University 3
Case Western Reserve University 9
Colgate University 4
Columbia University in the City of New York 20
Cornell University25
Dartmouth College10
Duke University 45
Emory University 8
Georgetown University 5
Georgia Institute of Technology 6
Grinnell College 3
Harvard University  49
Indiana University-Bloomington 10
Johns Hopkins University32
Massachusetts Institute of Technology18
McGill University7
Miami University (OH) 3
Michigan State University 8
Mount Holyoke College 3
New York University 4
Northwestern University 13
Oregon State University 6
Pomona College 6
Princeton University27
Rice University 21
Saint Louis University 5
Santa Clara University 3
St. Olaf College4
Stanford University23
The Ohio State University12
The University of Alabama3
The University of Utah5
Tufts University 6
Tulane University 4
University of Arizona5
University of Arkansas 3
University of California, Berkeley 29
University of California, Davis 4
University of California, Los Angeles 33
University of California, San Diego 12
University of Chicago 15
University of Florida 10
University of Georgia 5
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 11
University of Iowa 5
University of Kentucky 4
University of Maryland – College Park 5
University of Miami (FL) 3
University of Michigan – Ann Arbor 28
University of Minnesota – Twin Cities 6
University of Missouri – Columbia 5
University of Nebraska – Lincoln 4
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 15
University of Notre Dame 29
University of Oklahoma 7
University of Pennsylvania22
University of Pittsburgh6
University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras 3
University of Rochester 3
University of Southern California11
University of Texas at Austin 7
University of Toronto 5
University of Tulsa 3
University of Virginia 11
University of Washington 12
University of Western Ontario 3
University of Wisconsin-Madison 9
Vanderbilt University 36
Washington University in St. Louis 154
Williams College 6
Yale University 40

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