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UCSD2026-2027 Thread
anonymous
Aug 31, 2026
#31

anonymous:

i went to an admissions meeting and they said they screen people out if they have <508 mcat and <3.1 gpa if that helps (bc of doj)

That might be true looking at the stats on here of the people who have received secondaries. The lowest mcat is 508. Compared to last cycle where the lowest was 496 who received a secondary. Interesting, I guess they're scared of getting sued by trump admin

anonymous
Aug 31, 2026
#32

anonymous:

That might be true looking at the stats on here of the people who have received secondaries. The lowest mcat is 508. Compared to last cycle where the lowest was 496 who received a secondary. Interesting, I guess they're scared of getting sued by trump admin

I find this a bit interesting though. IMO this cut-off is rather high considering schools like the Mayo Clinic use a cutoff of a 510 MCAT. I'm having trouble linking this to race; why can't they have a lower cutoff of like a <503 and <3.1 and just evaluate all applicants (ORM and URM alike) equally? I am also interested to see how that will affect this year's avg MCATs.

For reference I am an ORM.

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Aug 31, 2026
#33

anonymous:

That might be true looking at the stats on here of the people who have received secondaries. The lowest mcat is 508. Compared to last cycle where the lowest was 496 who received a secondary. Interesting, I guess they're scared of getting sued by trump admin

This is just stupid. 508 is above the URM avg

anonymous
Aug 31, 2026 • Edited Aug 31, 2026
#34

anonymous:

I find this a bit interesting though. IMO this cut-off is rather high considering schools like the Mayo Clinic use a cutoff of a 510 MCAT. I'm having trouble linking this to race; why can't they have a lower cutoff of like a <503 and <3.1 and just evaluate all applicants (ORM and URM alike) equally? I am also interested to see how that will affect this year's avg MCATs.

For reference I am an ORM.

UCLA lowest secondary this cycle I've seen is a 501, if anything UCLA should be having a hard cutoff lol not UCSD. But it's really interesting, I guess they want to avoid any "trouble" by DOJ

anonymous
Sep 1, 2026
#35

anonymous:

i went to an admissions meeting and they said they screen people out if they have <508 mcat and <3.1 gpa if that helps (bc of doj)

damn they said explicilty bc of DOJ?

anonymous
Sep 1, 2026
#36

anonymous:

damn they said explicilty bc of DOJ?

yup, they want 528/4.0 no URM in med schools

anonymous
Sep 10, 2026
#37

I think a wave of IIs is happening today, just saw a few ppl on the live tracker

anonymous
Sep 14, 2026
#38

anonymous:

I think a wave of IIs is happening today, just saw a few ppl on the live tracker

yeah. I got an OOS II

anonymous
Sep 14, 2026
#39

anonymous:

yeah. I got an OOS II

on 9/10 or today?

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Sep 14, 2026
#40

any prime-heq II yet?