The 2023 Entering Class
The group of 124 students is composed of highly talented, intellectually-curious, thoughtful, creative, community-minded and diverse young professionals with remarkable academic and personal qualifications.
A recap of their orientation week may be found here.
2023 White Coat Ceremony
Washington University welcomes
the Entering Class of 2023!
Academic and personal qualifications (2023 Entering Class)
- Mean grade point average (GPA) of 3.88
- Mean MCAT total score of 519.5 (96th percentile).
- Originated from 31 states and 12 international students from 8 countries (Canada, China, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Morocco, Singapore, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe). States most represented are California (15) and Florida (10). Illinois and New York are each represented by eight students. Seven are from Massachusetts and Missouri. New Jersey and Texas each contributed five. Georgia, Maryland, and Virginia are represented by four students each.
- 52 different undergraduate institutions, with three or more students coming from:
- Washington University (23)
- Duke University (9)
- Johns Hopkins University (7)
- University of California, Los Angeles (6)
- Columbia University/Vanderbilt University (5 each)
- Cornell University/Harvard University/Stanford University (4 each)
- Pomona College, the University of Michigan, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University each contributed three new students
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.
Why WashU?
Students listed their top reasons for choosing WashU.
