The 2021 Entering Class
The group is composed of highly talented, intellectually-curious, thoughtful, creative, community-minded and diverse young professionals with outstanding academic and personal qualifications. The group of 123 includes:
- 60 women, 62 men, and 1 declined to answer
- Ages ranging from 21-35
- 37 individuals from groups underrepresented in medicine
- Six first-generation students
- 32 enrolled in the joint MD/PhD, or Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP)
What Does My White Coat Mean to Me?
During Orientation week, students shared their thoughts about donning their white coats — the symbol of their future profession.
For more, visit the White Coat Ceremony website.
Academic and personal qualifications (2021 Entering Class)
- Mean grade point averages (GPA) of 3.87; cumulative undergraduate GPAs ranged from 3.34 to 4.00
- Mean MCAT total score of 520.3. The MCAT range for the 2021 Entering Class was from 509 to 528.
- Originated from 35 states and 10 foreign countries (Brazil, Canada, China, Ghana, India, Italy, Mexico, Romania, Russia, and Singapore). States most represented are California, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, and North Carolina.
- 62 different colleges and universities, with four or more students coming from:
- Washington University
- Cornell University
- Duke University
- Harvard University
- Johns Hopkins University
- University of Notre Dame
- Vanderbilt University
Undergraduate Institutions Represented — 2012-2021
WashU matriculates students from a wide variety of very competitive schools. In the last five years, 57 different schools contributed three or more matriculants and 154 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 2012-2021 decade.
| University/College | Total |
| Arizona State University | 3 |
| Bowdoin University | 4 |
| Brandeis University | 5 |
| Brigham Young University | 9 |
| Brown University | 14 |
| California Institute of Technology | 6 |
| Carleton College | 4 |
| Case Western Reserve University | 5 |
| Colby College | 3 |
| Columbia University in the City of New York | 16 |
| Cornell University | 20 |
| Dartmouth College | 10 |
| Duke University | 38 |
| Emory University | 13 |
| Florida State University | 3 |
| Fordham University | 3 |
| Georgetown University | 4 |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | 4 |
| Harvard University | 56 |
| Indiana University-Bloomington | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins University | 24 |
| Macalester College | 3 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 17 |
| McGill University | 9 |
| Michigan State University | 4 |
| Middlebury College | 4 |
| New York University | 5 |
| Northwestern University | 14 |
| Ohio State University | 9 |
| Oregon State University | 5 |
| Pomona College | 3 |
| Princeton University | 18 |
| Rice University | 22 |
| Saint Louis University | 6 |
| St. Olaf College | 5 |
| Stanford University | 15 |
| Swarthmore College | 3 |
| Truman State University | 4 |
| Tufts University | 6 |
| Tulane University | 4 |
| University of Arizona | 8 |
| University of Arkansas | 5 |
| University of California, Berkeley | 39 |
| University of California, Davis | 3 |
| University of California, Los Angeles | 32 |
| University of California, San Diego | 13 |
| University of Chicago | 11 |
| University of Florida | 9 |
| University of Georgia | 7 |
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 14 |
| University of Iowa | 5 |
| University of Kentucky | 3 |
| University of Maryland – Baltimore County | 3 |
| University of Maryland – College Park | 7 |
| University of Massachusetts – Amherst | 3 |
| University of Miami (FL) | 3 |
| University of Michigan – Ann Arbor | 26 |
| University of Minnesota – Twin Cities | 7 |
| University of Missouri – Columbia | 3 |
| University of Nebraska – Lincoln | 5 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 14 |
| University of Notre Dame | 20 |
| University of Oklahoma | 5 |
| University of Pennsylvania | 28 |
| University of Pittsburgh | 4 |
| University of Rochester | 3 |
| University of Southern California | 13 |
| University of Texas at Austin | 4 |
| University of Toronto | 6 |
| University of Tulsa | 5 |
| University of Virginia | 8 |
| University of Washington | 15 |
| University of Western Ontario | 4 |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison | 9 |
| Vanderbilt University | 30 |
| Washington University in St. Louis | 161 |
| Wellesley College | 4 |
| Williams College | 7 |
| Yale University | 39 |
Personal qualities
Please visit the Student Life section for more about our students’ personal interests, qualities and lifestyles.