The Entering Class of 2024

Our medical students are highly talented, intellectually-curious, thoughtful, creative, community-minded and diverse young professionals with remarkable academic and personal qualifications. See Student Life for more about our students’ personal interests, qualities and lifestyles.

A text-based representation of these numbers for 2025 is listed below

The Entering Class of 2025

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  • 123 students
    • 53 women; 70 men
    • 93 MD students; 30 MD/PhD students
  • Mean grade point average (GPA) of 3.88
  • Mean MCAT total score of 520 (97th percentile)
  • 6,138 highly qualified applicants; 1,021 interviewed
  • Originated from 30 states and 9 countries
  • 65 different undergraduate institutions
  • 71% have full tuition funding
  • 77% have merit and/or need-based scholarships

Undergraduate institutions represented — 2015-2025

WashU Medicine matriculates students from a wide variety of very competitive schools.  In 2025, the incoming class attended 71 different undergraduate institutions. In the last ten years, 82 different schools contributed three or more matriculants and 241 schools contributed at least one matriculant to WashU Medicine.

The table below presents only those universities and colleges contributing three or more students to the WashU entering medical school classes in the last 10 years (2015-2025).  

University/CollegeTotal
Amherst College4
Baylor University 3
Boston College3
Bowdoin College 4
Brandeis University 4
Brigham Young University 14
Brown University 13
California Institute of Technology 4
Case Western Reserve University 9
Colgate University 4
Columbia University in the City of New York 15
Cornell University25
Dartmouth College10
Duke University 45
Emory University 10
Georgetown University 5
Georgia Institute of Technology 6
Grinnell College 4
Harvard University  44
Indiana University-Bloomington 8
Johns Hopkins University34
Macalester College3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology17
McGill University6
Miami University (OH) 4
Michigan State University 8
Missouri State University3
Mount Holyoke College 3
New York University 6
Northwestern University-Evanston 14
Oregon State University 6
Pomona College 5
Princeton University25
Rice University 20
Saint Louis University 4
St. Olaf College4
Stanford University24
The Ohio State University12
The University of Alabama3
The University of Utah5
Truman State University3
Tufts University 7
Tulane University 5
University of Arizona4
University of California, Berkeley 25
University of California, Davis 5
University of California, Los Angeles 32
University of California, San Diego 11
University of Chicago 15
University of Florida 9
University of Georgia 6
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 7
University of Iowa 5
University of Kentucky 3
University of Maryland – College Park 6
University of Miami (FL) 4
University of Michigan – Ann Arbor 26
University of Minnesota – Twin Cities 6
University of Missouri – Columbia 5
University of Nebraska – Lincoln 4
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 17
University of Notre Dame 25
University of Oklahoma 8
University of Pennsylvania24
University of Pittsburgh8
University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras 4
University of Rochester 3
University of Southern California11
University of Texas at Austin 7
University of Texas at Dallas3
University of Toronto 7
University of Tulsa 3
University of Virginia 14
University of Washington 11
University of Western Ontario 3
University of Wisconsin-Madison 8
Vanderbilt University 34
Washington University in St. Louis 147
Williams College 7
Yale University 44

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