text: difficulty of getting into medical school??? i would like to get input from people who either are in medical school or have been accepted into a medical school.    my question is, how many schools did you apply to and how many accepted them.  also, can you please share some of your stats that way i can get an idea of what type of person gets in (gpa, ba or bs major, mcat scores, volunteer experience, etc)    overall any comments you can share about medical school would be helpful. thank you very much. the following link is a great resource for getting the answers you seek.  you can ask any number of questions, and get good answers from people who really know.  the last link is a popular site that most people agree will give you a very poor impression of the difficulty--everyone on it who posts seems to be disproportionately competitive, and a lot of "real people" who did worse in ugrad but still succeeded are under-respresented.  good luck.  i took the mcat and all, but decided against med school (though my mcat study advice was briefly shown on the mcat home page where you register for the test!)  edit: the previous poster is giving some wierd info.  20 is no where near competitive, and with a 17 mcat, you might as well forget it.  i think she means 30 and 27, respectively.  there are also far more than 26 med schools in the us.  see http://homepage.mac.com/dsacco/schools.html