Medical school acceptance rates start with one national number: 44.4% of applicants to U.S. MD-granting schools were accepted in 2025-2026. Of 54,699 applicants, 24,300 were accepted by at least one school, according to AAMC FACTS Table A-7.2. Individual schools look much more selective: across all schools, there were 2.2 matriculants for every 100 applications.
Both numbers can be true because each applicant submitted about 19.5 applications, creating a large pool at every school even though each person could enroll at only one. For your school list, the more useful questions are where you live, how your GPA and MCAT compare with past applicant groups and whether a school seriously considers applicants from your state. Our guide to how hard it is to get into medical school provides the year-by-year national trend.
Acceptance Rates in Brief
- In 2025-2026, 44.4% of applicants were accepted by at least one U.S. MD-granting medical school.
- The most selective schools enrolled fewer than 1 matriculant per 100 applications, including NYU Grossman Long Island at 0.51, Kaiser Permanente at 0.74 and George Washington at 0.76. The figure across all schools was 2.2.
- In-state residents submitted 22% of applications but made up 59.3% of matriculants, showing why residency can matter more than a headline school figure.
- Across the combined 2023-2024 through 2025-2026 cycles, acceptance rates ranged from 22.2% for applicants with MCAT scores of 498-501 to 79.9% for those scoring above 517.
The National Medical School Acceptance Rate
The 44.4% national medical school acceptance rate answers a specific question: what share of people applying to U.S. MD-granting schools received at least one offer? The AAMC calls such a person an accepted applicant or acceptee. Receiving several offers still counts as one acceptee in the national figure.
A matriculant is someone who actually enrolls. Of the 54,699 applicants in 2025-2026, 24,300 became acceptees and 23,440 matriculated. The difference matters when you compare national and school-level figures. National data can measure people accepted somewhere, while the AAMC’s school table reports applications and enrolled students rather than each school’s total offers.
Academic year 2025-2026 refers to applicants who sought to enter medical school in fall 2025.
The Most Selective Medical Schools by Application Volume
The schools below are ordered by matriculants per 100 applications, not by acceptance rate. The difference matters: the AAMC school-level table reports applications and matriculants but does not report how many offers each school made. Because schools offer admission to more students than ultimately enroll, a true school acceptance rate will be higher than its matriculants-per-100 figure.
Ten schools enrolled fewer than 1 matriculant per 100 applications, and 69 enrolled fewer than 2. Small classes are one reason. Some programs also attract unusually broad interest because of their financial models. NYU Grossman Long Island provides full-tuition scholarships to matriculated MD students, while Kaiser Permanente waived four years of tuition for students enrolling through 2026. Our guide to the cheapest medical schools and tuition-free programs lists those programs and what their students still pay for.
According to AAMC FACTS Table A-1 for 2025-2026, the following schools had the fewest matriculants per 100 applications. George Washington received 17,194 applications, the most of any school in the same AAMC table, for 130 matriculants.
| Medical School | State | Applications | Matriculants | Matriculants per 100 Applications | Matriculants From In State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine | New York | 4,738 | 24 | 0.51 | 62.5% |
| Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine | California | 6,596 | 49 | 0.74 | 71.4% |
| George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences | District of Columbia | 17,194 | 130 | 0.76 | 3.8% |
| The University of Texas at Tyler School of Medicine | Texas | 4,990 | 40 | 0.80 | 95% |
| Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine | Virginia | 6,370 | 55 | 0.86 | 21.8% |
| The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School | Texas | 5,684 | 50 | 0.88 | 98% |
| Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science College of Medicine | California | 6,639 | 60 | 0.90 | 71.7% |
| Stanford University School of Medicine | California | 9,793 | 90 | 0.92 | 40% |
| Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth | New Hampshire | 10,330 | 96 | 0.93 | 4.2% |
| Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine at TCU | Texas | 6,273 | 60 | 0.96 | 18.3% |
| Albany Medical College | New York | 14,157 | 141 | 1.00 | 33.3% |
| Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University | Connecticut | 9,426 | 95 | 1.01 | 5.3% |
| Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine | Pennsylvania | 14,288 | 150 | 1.05 | 43.3% |
| Albert Einstein College of Medicine | New York | 14,035 | 148 | 1.05 | 47.3% |
| Emory University School of Medicine | Georgia | 12,671 | 136 | 1.07 | 25% |
The figures for all 160 schools, listed by state, are in the full table near the end of this article.
The same AAMC table places several familiar research institutions slightly farther down: NYU Grossman enrolled 1.18 matriculants per 100 applications, Yale 1.41, Johns Hopkins 1.46 and Harvard 1.99. These figures primarily show the relationship between application volume and class size. They do not establish your personal probability of admission.
The Least Selective Medical Schools by the Same Measure
The next table reverses the same measure and includes schools with at least 100 applications. A high figure does not make a school broadly easy to enter. In many cases, it reflects a narrow applicant pool made up almost entirely of state residents.
| Medical School | State | Applications | Matriculants | Matriculants per 100 Applications | Applications From In-State Residents | Matriculants From In State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Mississippi School of Medicine | Mississippi | 326 | 170 | 52.15 | 99.4% | 100% |
| Mercer University School of Medicine | Georgia | 1,246 | 176 | 14.13 | 99.8% | 100% |
| University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine | Puerto Rico | 801 | 105 | 13.11 | 43.6% | 94.3% |
| Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University | Georgia | 3,368 | 304 | 9.03 | 40.9% | 98.7% |
| Ponce Health Sciences University School of Medicine | Puerto Rico | 2,255 | 194 | 8.60 | 25.2% | 57.7% |
| University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine | Missouri | 1,589 | 134 | 8.43 | 19.8% | 60.4% |
| Roseman University College of Medicine | Nevada | 792 | 64 | 8.08 | 15.5% | 18.8% |
| Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine | Maryland | 2,238 | 177 | 7.91 | 8.5% | 10.7% |
| University of Oklahoma College of Medicine | Oklahoma | 2,590 | 202 | 7.80 | 13.1% | 55% |
| University of South Dakota, Sanford School of Medicine | South Dakota | 1,076 | 71 | 6.60 | 12% | 78.9% |
| Southern Illinois University School of Medicine | Illinois | 1,218 | 80 | 6.57 | 93.1% | 100% |
| University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine | Tennessee | 2,744 | 174 | 6.34 | 24.1% | 89.1% |
| Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine | Puerto Rico | 1,204 | 75 | 6.23 | 46.3% | 92% |
| University of Nebraska College of Medicine | Nebraska | 2,311 | 142 | 6.14 | 13.2% | 84.5% |
| University of New Mexico School of Medicine | New Mexico | 1,719 | 103 | 5.99 | 11.5% | 78.6% |
Read the two residency columns before anything else. At the University of Mississippi School of Medicine, in-state residents submitted 99.4% of applications and filled 100% of the class. Mercer University School of Medicine received 99.8% of its applications from Georgia residents and enrolled an entirely in-state class. Southern Illinois University School of Medicine also enrolled only in-state residents.
For applicants outside those states, the large matriculants-per-100 figure does not signal easier access. Roseman University College of Medicine and the federal Uniformed Services University are notable exceptions in this table: in-state residents made up only 18.8% and 10.7% of their respective classes. Those differences are why you should examine the residency columns before adding any apparently less selective school.
Schools That Publish Their Own Acceptance Rates
Some schools publish their own acceptance figures on their class profile pages, which gives a true school acceptance rate. Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine reported a 3.5% rate for its 2026 entering class, while Yale School of Medicine reported 4.4% for the class entering in 2025.
Two additional rates can be calculated from official counts. The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine reported 380 acceptances from 6,782 applications for its 2026 entering class, producing a calculated rate of 5.6%. Quillen College of Medicine reported 169 offers from 4,009 applications for its 2025 entering class, producing a calculated rate of 4.2%.
Washington State University Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine reported an 18.4% rate for 2026, defined as offers divided by 723 completed applications rather than all 1,669 AMCAS applications. Schools do not always use the same denominator, so these published rates should not be ranked directly against one another.
| Medical School | Entering Class | Applications | Acceptances Offered | Acceptance Rate | Basis | Matriculants per 100 Applications, 2025-2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine | 2026 | 6,061 | 215 | 3.5% | Published by the school | 1.84 |
| East Tennessee State University Quillen College of Medicine | 2025 | 4,009 | 169 | 4.2% | Calculated from the school's counts | 1.95 |
| Yale School of Medicine | 2025 | 6,206 | Not listed | 4.4% | Published by the school | 1.41 |
| University of Cincinnati College of Medicine | 2026 | 6,782 | 380 | 5.6% | Calculated from the school's counts | 2.64 |
| Washington State University Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine | 2026 | 723 | Not listed | 18.4% | Published by the school (offers divided by completed applications) | 5.08 |
The last column of the table above gives each school’s matriculants per 100 applications in the AAMC table for 2025-2026: 1.84 for Mayo, 1.95 for Quillen, 1.41 for Yale, 2.64 for Cincinnati and 5.08 for Washington State. In every row the school’s own acceptance rate is about twice that figure or more, because schools make more offers than they have seats. Cincinnati made 380 offers for 174 matriculants, while Quillen made 169 offers for 78 matriculants, about 2.2 offers per enrolled student at each school.
Why Do School-Level Numbers Look So Low?
The apparent contradiction between a 44.4% national rate and very small school figures comes from counting different things. In 2025-2026, 54,699 people submitted 1,066,896 applications, an average of 19.5 each. Those applications competed for 23,440 first-year places, creating about 45.5 applications per seat even though more than four in ten people received an offer somewhere.
Each applicant can appear in many school application pools but can enroll at only one school. That makes application volume a poor stand-alone estimate of your personal odds. It can tell you that a school attracts a large pool or has a small class, but it cannot show whether your residency, academic record, experiences and goals fit what the school considers.
Use application volume to control where you spend your effort, not to predict a precise result. The AAMC says students currently apply to an average of 16 AMCAS schools, but the right number depends on how many programs you would genuinely attend and how well the list matches your circumstances. Our guide to how many medical schools to apply to helps with that decision.
Once the broad numbers are in view, assess your complete application rather than treating one statistic as a verdict. The guide to answering how competitive am I for medical school can help you consider academics alongside clinical work, research and other parts of your record.
In-State Versus Out-of-State Medical School Admission
Residency has a substantial effect at many public medical schools. Nationally, AAMC data show that in-state residents submitted only 22% of applications in 2025-2026 but made up 59.3% of matriculants. Of all applicants, 25.4% matriculated in their home state and 17.4% matriculated outside it.
The pattern is concentrated rather than universal. At 26 schools, at least 90% of matriculants were in-state residents, and five schools enrolled entirely in-state classes. In-state students made up at least 75% of the class at 52 of 94 public schools, compared with 6 of 66 private schools.
Quillen shows how large the difference can become within one admissions process. For its 2025 entering class, 22% of in-state applications resulted in an offer, compared with 0.9% of out-of-state applications. UC Davis presents a similar enrollment pattern: California residents submitted 65% of applications and made up 97.1% of matriculants.
State rules can also impose a direct limit. TMDSAS explains that Texas law caps non-Texas residents at 10% of each medical school’s entering class. Applying broadly to state-focused schools without checking these restrictions is one of the school-list problems discussed in our guide to why applicants get rejected from medical school.
Not every school favors residents. Georgetown, George Washington, Yale, Johns Hopkins and Geisel at Dartmouth enrolled classes composed almost entirely of students from outside their home jurisdiction. The lesson is not to avoid public schools or prefer private ones automatically. Check the in-state share for each school and look for published residency eligibility rules before paying an application fee. The AMCAS Applicant Guide from the AAMC notes that some schools accept applications only from applicants who reside in certain states.
Acceptance Rates by GPA and MCAT Score
GPA and MCAT results are most useful when read together. The full MCAT and GPA grid shows the interaction between both measures, while the summary table below lets you compare broad GPA and MCAT bands. These are group outcomes for past applicants, not a forecast of any individual’s admission result.
The figures below come from AAMC FACTS Table A-23, which combines applicants and acceptees from the 2023-2024 through 2025-2026 cycles.
| Applicant Group | Applicants | Acceptees | Acceptance Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total MCAT 494-497 | 10,787 | 1,192 | 11.1% |
| Total MCAT 498-501 | 15,600 | 3,466 | 22.2% |
| Total MCAT 502-505 | 21,066 | 7,449 | 35.4% |
| Total MCAT 506-509 | 25,042 | 11,786 | 47.1% |
| Total MCAT 510-513 | 26,292 | 16,416 | 62.4% |
| Total MCAT 514-517 | 21,199 | 15,087 | 71.2% |
| Total MCAT above 517 | 18,143 | 14,492 | 79.9% |
| Total GPA 3.00-3.19 | 7,626 | 1,209 | 15.9% |
| Total GPA 3.20-3.39 | 12,961 | 2,696 | 20.8% |
| Total GPA 3.40-3.59 | 22,437 | 6,660 | 29.7% |
| Total GPA 3.60-3.79 | 37,208 | 15,791 | 42.4% |
| Total GPA above 3.79 | 67,816 | 43,215 | 63.7% |
| All applicants | 155,940 | 70,289 | 45.1% |
Across those three cycles, 45.1% of applicants in the table above became acceptees. By MCAT band, the rate was 22.2% at 498-501, 47.1% at 506-509, 62.4% at 510-513 and 79.9% above 517. By GPA, it was 29.7% at 3.40-3.59, 42.4% at 3.60-3.79 and 63.7% above 3.79.
The combination tells you more than either measure alone. In the same AAMC table, applicants with a GPA above 3.79 and an MCAT above 517 had an 83.3% acceptance rate, compared with 18.5% for applicants in the same GPA band whose MCAT was 494-497.
Use the bands to set expectations for a school list, not as cutoffs. If you are working from practice-test results, an MCAT score calculator can help you place a converted or predicted score in the correct band. Then compare that band with your GPA range, residency and the types of schools on your list.
For context, AAMC data show that MD matriculants in 2025-2026 had a mean total MCAT of 512.1 and a mean total GPA of 3.81. These are averages rather than minimum requirements and they do not account for the rest of an application.
Acceptance Numbers for DO Schools
AACOM does not publish a national acceptance rate for DO schools. It publishes applicant and first-year enrollment counts, not the number of applicants who received at least one offer. For 2025-2026, AACOM reported 23,114 applicants and 11,687 first-year students. That is roughly two applicants per first-year place, but it is a ratio, not an acceptance rate.
The comparable MD ratio in AAMC data was about 2.3 applicants per first-year place, based on 54,699 applicants and 23,440 matriculants. Neither ratio tells you how many offers were made because schools typically offer admission to more applicants than ultimately enroll.
Individual osteopathic colleges may publish more detailed counts. Pacific Northwest University reported 1,925 supplemental applicants, 544 offers and a class of 145 for fall 2025. That example shows why first-year enrollment cannot be substituted for offers when calculating a rate.
AACOM reported that students entering DO schools in 2025 had a mean MCAT score of 502.95 and mean overall GPA of 3.62. These averages can provide context for your list, but they are not admissions cutoffs and do not establish a national DO acceptance rate.
Medical School Acceptance Numbers for Every MD School by State
The full table is organized by state and covers all 160 MD-granting schools in AAMC FACTS Table A-1 for 2025-2026. For each school, it shows public or private status, applications, matriculants, matriculants per 100 applications and the in-state shares of applications and matriculants. Use the state columns to identify schools where your residency may provide a realistic connection before comparing application volume.
| Medical School | State | Public or Private | Applications | Matriculants | Matriculants per 100 Applications | Applications From In-State Residents | Matriculants From In State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine at the University of South Alabama | Alabama | Public | 1,906 | 79 | 4.14 | 25.6% | 93.7% |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine | Alabama | Public | 4,206 | 196 | 4.66 | 13.3% | 82.1% |
| University of Arizona College of Medicine | Arizona | Public | 7,342 | 118 | 1.61 | 10.6% | 71.2% |
| University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix | Arizona | Public | 5,831 | 130 | 2.23 | 13.1% | 66.9% |
| Alice L. Walton School of Medicine | Arkansas | Private | 2,021 | 48 | 2.38 | 8.7% | 31.3% |
| University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine | Arkansas | Public | 3,337 | 174 | 5.21 | 9.3% | 83.3% |
| California Northstate University College of Medicine | California | Private | 3,412 | 118 | 3.46 | 69% | 93.2% |
| California University of Science and Medicine-School of Medicine | California | Private | 4,630 | 130 | 2.81 | 78.7% | 97.7% |
| Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science College of Medicine | California | Private | 6,639 | 60 | 0.90 | 37.3% | 71.7% |
| Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine | California | Private | 6,596 | 49 | 0.74 | 59.8% | 71.4% |
| Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California | California | Private | 9,612 | 120 | 1.25 | 50.4% | 80.8% |
| Loma Linda University School of Medicine | California | Private | 5,642 | 176 | 3.12 | 47.9% | 44.3% |
| Stanford University School of Medicine | California | Private | 9,793 | 90 | 0.92 | 33.7% | 40% |
| University of California, Davis, School of Medicine | California | Public | 8,294 | 139 | 1.68 | 65% | 97.1% |
| University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine | California | Public | 7,440 | 114 | 1.53 | 71.9% | 88.6% |
| University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine | California | Public | 12,474 | 175 | 1.40 | 43% | 59.4% |
| University of California, Riverside School of Medicine | California | Public | 6,508 | 90 | 1.38 | 75.9% | 96.7% |
| University of California, San Diego School of Medicine | California | Public | 10,400 | 140 | 1.35 | 53.6% | 74.3% |
| University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine | California | Public | 10,372 | 177 | 1.71 | 46.3% | 71.8% |
| University of Colorado School of Medicine | Colorado | Public | 10,405 | 181 | 1.74 | 6% | 48.1% |
| Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University | Connecticut | Private | 9,426 | 95 | 1.01 | 4.3% | 5.3% |
| University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Connecticut | Public | 5,734 | 114 | 1.99 | 9% | 68.4% |
| Yale School of Medicine | Connecticut | Private | 7,352 | 104 | 1.41 | 3.7% | 5.8% |
| George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences | District of Columbia | Private | 17,194 | 130 | 0.76 | 0.5% | 3.8% |
| Georgetown University School of Medicine | District of Columbia | Private | 14,542 | 203 | 1.40 | 0.6% | 3.4% |
| Howard University College of Medicine | District of Columbia | Private | 8,908 | 128 | 1.44 | 0.6% | 1.6% |
| Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University | Florida | Public | 4,165 | 78 | 1.87 | 54.4% | 71.8% |
| Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine | Florida | Public | 6,013 | 121 | 2.01 | 43.3% | 90.9% |
| Florida State University College of Medicine | Florida | Public | 6,730 | 120 | 1.78 | 42.8% | 97.5% |
| Nova Southeastern University Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine | Florida | Private | 5,790 | 65 | 1.12 | 39% | 73.8% |
| USF Health Morsani College of Medicine | Florida | Public | 5,677 | 131 | 2.31 | 43.2% | 51.1% |
| University of Central Florida College of Medicine | Florida | Public | 5,395 | 120 | 2.22 | 46.2% | 69.2% |
| University of Florida College of Medicine | Florida | Public | 5,612 | 136 | 2.42 | 46% | 86.8% |
| University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine | Florida | Private | 9,912 | 202 | 2.04 | 22.8% | 37.1% |
| Emory University School of Medicine | Georgia | Private | 12,671 | 136 | 1.07 | 7.5% | 25% |
| Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University | Georgia | Public | 3,368 | 304 | 9.03 | 40.9% | 98.7% |
| Mercer University School of Medicine | Georgia | Private | 1,246 | 176 | 14.13 | 99.8% | 100% |
| Morehouse School of Medicine | Georgia | Private | 6,873 | 110 | 1.60 | 12% | 56.4% |
| University of Hawaii, John A. Burns School of Medicine | Hawaii | Public | 2,369 | 77 | 3.25 | 8.5% | 79.2% |
| Carle Illinois College of Medicine | Illinois | Public | 2,889 | 64 | 2.22 | 18.9% | 23.4% |
| Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science | Illinois | Private | 11,973 | 203 | 1.70 | 11.6% | 43.8% |
| Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine | Illinois | Private | 13,289 | 175 | 1.32 | 11.5% | 39.4% |
| Northwestern University The Feinberg School of Medicine | Illinois | Private | 8,610 | 140 | 1.63 | 11.4% | 25.7% |
| Rush Medical College of Rush University Medical Center | Illinois | Private | 13,237 | 144 | 1.09 | 10.3% | 21.5% |
| Southern Illinois University School of Medicine | Illinois | Public | 1,218 | 80 | 6.57 | 93.1% | 100% |
| University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of Medicine | Illinois | Private | 7,738 | 91 | 1.18 | 11.1% | 18.7% |
| University of Illinois College of Medicine | Illinois | Public | 11,273 | 302 | 2.68 | 15.7% | 61.3% |
| Indiana University School of Medicine | Indiana | Public | 7,822 | 366 | 4.68 | 8.8% | 86.6% |
| University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine | Iowa | Public | 4,527 | 153 | 3.38 | 6.5% | 64.1% |
| University of Kansas School of Medicine | Kansas | Public | 4,978 | 211 | 4.24 | 8.6% | 81.5% |
| University of Kentucky College of Medicine | Kentucky | Public | 5,766 | 208 | 3.61 | 9.8% | 75.5% |
| University of Louisville School of Medicine | Kentucky | Public | 5,317 | 168 | 3.16 | 9% | 75% |
| Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans | Louisiana | Public | 3,865 | 195 | 5.05 | 16.6% | 87.7% |
| Louisiana State University School of Medicine in Shreveport | Louisiana | Public | 3,201 | 150 | 4.69 | 18.8% | 81.3% |
| Tulane University School of Medicine | Louisiana | Private | 13,814 | 190 | 1.38 | 2.9% | 15.3% |
| Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Maryland | Private | 8,057 | 118 | 1.46 | 6.4% | 7.6% |
| Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine | Maryland | Public | 2,238 | 177 | 7.91 | 8.5% | 10.7% |
| University of Maryland School of Medicine | Maryland | Public | 7,186 | 171 | 2.38 | 15.2% | 69% |
| Boston University Aram V. Chobanian & Edward Avedisian School of Medicine | Massachusetts | Private | 11,429 | 138 | 1.21 | 8.6% | 32.6% |
| Harvard Medical School | Massachusetts | Private | 8,275 | 165 | 1.99 | 8.3% | 15.2% |
| Tufts University School of Medicine | Massachusetts | Private | 15,455 | 204 | 1.32 | 7.4% | 26% |
| University of Massachusetts T.H. Chan School of Medicine | Massachusetts | Public | 5,630 | 233 | 4.14 | 20.3% | 61.4% |
| Central Michigan University College of Medicine | Michigan | Public | 8,513 | 104 | 1.22 | 16.3% | 82.7% |
| Michigan State University College of Human Medicine | Michigan | Public | 8,296 | 193 | 2.33 | 18.9% | 72% |
| Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine | Michigan | Public | 7,492 | 124 | 1.66 | 19.3% | 62.1% |
| University of Michigan Medical School | Michigan | Public | 10,277 | 168 | 1.63 | 11.6% | 32.1% |
| Wayne State University School of Medicine | Michigan | Public | 10,438 | 299 | 2.86 | 16.1% | 71.6% |
| Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine | Michigan | Private | 5,897 | 86 | 1.46 | 21.6% | 48.8% |
| Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine | Minnesota | Private | 5,920 | 109 | 1.84 | 5.3% | 6.4% |
| University of Minnesota Medical School | Minnesota | Public | 6,843 | 264 | 3.86 | 12.9% | 85.6% |
| University of Mississippi School of Medicine | Mississippi | Public | 326 | 170 | 52.15 | 99.4% | 100% |
| Saint Louis University School of Medicine | Missouri | Private | 6,672 | 174 | 2.61 | 6% | 29.3% |
| University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine | Missouri | Public | 3,677 | 136 | 3.70 | 15.4% | 85.3% |
| University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine | Missouri | Public | 1,589 | 134 | 8.43 | 19.8% | 60.4% |
| Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine | Missouri | Private | 6,138 | 123 | 2.00 | 4.7% | 8.9% |
| Creighton University School of Medicine | Nebraska | Private | 6,162 | 250 | 4.06 | 2.9% | 4% |
| University of Nebraska College of Medicine | Nebraska | Public | 2,311 | 142 | 6.14 | 13.2% | 84.5% |
| Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV | Nevada | Public | 2,375 | 66 | 2.78 | 10% | 74.2% |
| Roseman University College of Medicine | Nevada | Private | 792 | 64 | 8.08 | 15.5% | 18.8% |
| University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine | Nevada | Public | 2,382 | 72 | 3.02 | 10.7% | 65.3% |
| Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth | New Hampshire | Private | 10,330 | 96 | 0.93 | 1% | 4.2% |
| Cooper Medical School of Rowan University | New Jersey | Public | 4,619 | 118 | 2.55 | 28.7% | 72% |
| Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine | New Jersey | Private | 5,708 | 166 | 2.91 | 21.6% | 58.4% |
| Rutgers New Jersey Medical School | New Jersey | Public | 6,479 | 174 | 2.69 | 24.2% | 83.3% |
| Rutgers, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School | New Jersey | Public | 5,112 | 165 | 3.23 | 29.7% | 72.1% |
| University of New Mexico School of Medicine | New Mexico | Public | 1,719 | 103 | 5.99 | 11.5% | 78.6% |
| Albany Medical College | New York | Private | 14,157 | 141 | 1.00 | 14.6% | 33.3% |
| Albert Einstein College of Medicine | New York | Private | 14,035 | 148 | 1.05 | 15% | 47.3% |
| CUNY School of Medicine | New York | Public | 59 | 59 | 100.00 | 98.3% | 98.3% |
| Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons | New York | Private | 7,677 | 138 | 1.80 | 15.3% | 11.6% |
| Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell | New York | Private | 5,368 | 104 | 1.94 | 30.4% | 57.7% |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | New York | Private | 9,551 | 128 | 1.34 | 16.9% | 26.6% |
| Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo | New York | Public | 6,264 | 186 | 2.97 | 34.6% | 91.4% |
| NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine | New York | Private | 4,738 | 24 | 0.51 | 24.6% | 62.5% |
| NYU Grossman School of Medicine | New York | Private | 8,385 | 99 | 1.18 | 14% | 21.2% |
| New York Medical College | New York | Private | 9,525 | 233 | 2.45 | 21.6% | 60.1% |
| Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University | New York | Public | 5,689 | 141 | 2.48 | 37.1% | 86.5% |
| SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University College of Medicine | New York | Public | 7,490 | 197 | 2.63 | 33.4% | 84.3% |
| State University of New York Upstate Medical University Alan and Marlene Norton College of Medicine | New York | Public | 6,198 | 182 | 2.94 | 36.1% | 75.8% |
| University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry | New York | Private | 5,891 | 103 | 1.75 | 21.8% | 27.2% |
| Weill Cornell Medicine | New York | Private | 8,599 | 106 | 1.23 | 16.6% | 33% |
| Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University | North Carolina | Public | 2,267 | 91 | 4.01 | 47.5% | 100% |
| Duke University School of Medicine | North Carolina | Private | 9,234 | 123 | 1.33 | 7.7% | 15.4% |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine | North Carolina | Public | 6,264 | 229 | 3.66 | 18.1% | 83.4% |
| Wake Forest University School of Medicine | North Carolina | Private | 12,800 | 194 | 1.52 | 8% | 25.3% |
| University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences | North Dakota | Public | 1,864 | 75 | 4.02 | 5.8% | 64% |
| Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine | Ohio | Private | 9,454 | 216 | 2.28 | 8.4% | 15.3% |
| Northeast Ohio Medical University | Ohio | Public | 4,883 | 197 | 4.03 | 23.2% | 81.2% |
| Ohio State University College of Medicine | Ohio | Public | 8,685 | 211 | 2.43 | 13.7% | 57.8% |
| The University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences | Ohio | Public | 6,637 | 175 | 2.64 | 17.6% | 63.4% |
| University of Cincinnati College of Medicine | Ohio | Public | 6,636 | 175 | 2.64 | 17.1% | 62.9% |
| Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine | Ohio | Public | 5,986 | 128 | 2.14 | 19% | 71.9% |
| University of Oklahoma College of Medicine | Oklahoma | Public | 2,590 | 202 | 7.80 | 13.1% | 55% |
| Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine | Oregon | Public | 7,114 | 150 | 2.11 | 6.6% | 76% |
| Drexel University College of Medicine | Pennsylvania | Private | 16,547 | 305 | 1.84 | 6.9% | 14.8% |
| Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine | Pennsylvania | Private | 6,964 | 124 | 1.78 | 13.7% | 73.4% |
| Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University | Pennsylvania | Private | 14,278 | 227 | 1.59 | 8.2% | 41.4% |
| Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine | Pennsylvania | Private | 14,288 | 150 | 1.05 | 8.3% | 43.3% |
| Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Private | 7,097 | 153 | 2.16 | 8.4% | 11.8% |
| Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University | Pennsylvania | Private | 12,033 | 286 | 2.38 | 9.5% | 30.4% |
| University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine | Pennsylvania | Private | 11,887 | 151 | 1.27 | 8.7% | 31.8% |
| Ponce Health Sciences University School of Medicine | Puerto Rico | Private | 2,255 | 194 | 8.60 | 25.2% | 57.7% |
| San Juan Bautista School of Medicine | Puerto Rico | Private | 1,553 | 69 | 4.44 | 32% | 68.1% |
| Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine | Puerto Rico | Private | 1,204 | 75 | 6.23 | 46.3% | 92% |
| University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine | Puerto Rico | Public | 801 | 105 | 13.11 | 43.6% | 94.3% |
| The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University | Rhode Island | Private | 9,186 | 144 | 1.57 | 0.9% | 10.4% |
| Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine | South Carolina | Public | 3,413 | 179 | 5.24 | 16.8% | 91.1% |
| University of South Carolina School of Medicine Columbia | South Carolina | Public | 3,011 | 99 | 3.29 | 17.3% | 75.8% |
| University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville | South Carolina | Public | 4,157 | 110 | 2.65 | 12.7% | 66.4% |
| University of South Dakota, Sanford School of Medicine | South Dakota | Public | 1,076 | 71 | 6.60 | 12% | 78.9% |
| East Tennessee State University James H. Quillen College of Medicine | Tennessee | Public | 4,009 | 78 | 1.95 | 15.5% | 82.1% |
| Meharry Medical College | Tennessee | Private | 7,949 | 115 | 1.45 | 4% | 11.3% |
| Thomas F. Frist, Jr. College of Medicine at Belmont University | Tennessee | Private | 2,831 | 54 | 1.91 | 15.2% | 22.2% |
| University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine | Tennessee | Public | 2,744 | 174 | 6.34 | 24.1% | 89.1% |
| Vanderbilt University School of Medicine | Tennessee | Private | 7,685 | 95 | 1.24 | 5% | 6.3% |
| Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine at TCU | Texas | Private | 6,273 | 60 | 0.96 | 22.6% | 18.3% |
| Baylor College of Medicine | Texas | Private | 6,073 | 224 | 3.69 | 72.4% | 87.5% |
| McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston | Texas | Public | 6,104 | 240 | 3.93 | 76.6% | 94.2% |
| Texas A&M University Naresh K. Vashisht College of Medicine | Texas | Public | 6,086 | 200 | 3.29 | 76.1% | 84.5% |
| Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Paul L. Foster School of Medicine | Texas | Public | 4,811 | 130 | 2.70 | 83.2% | 90% |
| Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine | Texas | Public | 5,348 | 182 | 3.40 | 81.8% | 95.6% |
| The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School | Texas | Public | 5,684 | 50 | 0.88 | 79.6% | 98% |
| The University of Texas at San Antonio Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine | Texas | Public | 5,774 | 232 | 4.02 | 79% | 87.5% |
| The University of Texas at Tyler School of Medicine | Texas | Public | 4,990 | 40 | 0.80 | 82.7% | 95% |
| University of Houston Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine | Texas | Public | 5,247 | 60 | 1.14 | 81.7% | 93.3% |
| University of Texas Medical Branch John Sealy School of Medicine | Texas | Public | 5,450 | 230 | 4.22 | 82.3% | 90% |
| University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine | Texas | Public | 4,789 | 55 | 1.15 | 83.5% | 96.4% |
| University of Texas Southwestern Medical School | Texas | Public | 6,025 | 229 | 3.80 | 75.3% | 87.8% |
| Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah | Utah | Public | 3,085 | 125 | 4.05 | 17.9% | 72.8% |
| Robert Larner, M.D., College of Medicine at the University of Vermont | Vermont | Public | 10,377 | 122 | 1.18 | 0.7% | 26.2% |
| Eastern Virginia Medical School at Old Dominion University | Virginia | Public | 7,613 | 151 | 1.98 | 14.9% | 50.3% |
| University of Virginia School of Medicine | Virginia | Public | 7,148 | 156 | 2.18 | 14% | 51.9% |
| Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine | Virginia | Public | 8,306 | 184 | 2.22 | 14.1% | 63% |
| Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine | Virginia | Public | 6,370 | 55 | 0.86 | 14.3% | 21.8% |
| University of Washington School of Medicine | Washington | Public | 5,275 | 280 | 5.31 | 17.6% | 51.4% |
| Washington State University Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine | Washington | Public | 1,574 | 80 | 5.08 | 51.3% | 100% |
| Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine | West Virginia | Public | 3,026 | 82 | 2.71 | 4.3% | 57.3% |
| West Virginia University School of Medicine | West Virginia | Public | 6,314 | 115 | 1.82 | 2.3% | 47.8% |
| Medical College of Wisconsin | Wisconsin | Private | 10,711 | 274 | 2.56 | 6.6% | 51.5% |
| University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health | Wisconsin | Public | 7,744 | 171 | 2.21 | 9.1% | 74.9% |
| All U.S. MD-granting schools | 1,066,896 | 23,440 | 2.20 | 22% | 59.3% |
The table above does not include each school’s entering academic averages. To compare these application numbers with school-level academic profiles, see the average GPA and MCAT score for every medical school.
CUNY School of Medicine appears in the full table but is excluded from the two ranked lists. The AAMC recorded 59 applications and 59 matriculants there, while CUNY operates an accelerated seven-year BS/MD pathway whose students enter the MD phase from its biomedical science bachelor’s program rather than through the usual open application route.
Turn the Numbers Into a Focused School List
Start with your home-state public schools, then move outward to schools that regularly enroll applicants from your location. At each step, read matriculants per 100 applications as a measure of application volume relative to class size, not as an acceptance rate or a promise about your result.
Next, compare your GPA and MCAT combination with the historical band data. Remove schools you would not seriously attend and question any out-of-state public school whose class is overwhelmingly local. A shorter list built around eligibility and fit is more useful than a longer list assembled from low-looking figures.
If you want a structured starting point, IMA Pathfinder is a free tool that considers your GPA, MCAT, clinical hours, research and other factors, then sorts MD and DO programs into safety, match and reach groups. Treat those groups as prompts for further review, then confirm that every school fits your goals, residency position and application budget.
Frequently Asked Questions
What Is the Acceptance Rate for Medical School?
The national acceptance rate for U.S. MD-granting medical schools was 44.4% in 2025-2026. That figure represents 24,300 people accepted by at least one school out of 54,699 applicants.
What Percent of Applicants Get Into Medical School?
A little more than four in ten MD applicants were accepted somewhere in 2025-2026. Specifically, 44.4% received at least one offer, while 23,440 of the 54,699 applicants ultimately matriculated.
What Is the Hardest Medical School to Get Into?
NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine had the fewest matriculants per 100 applications in the 2025-2026 AAMC school table. It enrolled 24 matriculants from 4,738 applications, or 0.51 matriculants per 100 applications. This is not its acceptance rate because the AAMC table does not report offers.
What Is the Easiest Medical School to Get Into?
By matriculants per 100 applications, the University of Mississippi School of Medicine ranks first at 52.15, followed by Mercer University School of Medicine at 14.13. That does not make either school open to everyone: 99.4% of Mississippi’s applications came from Mississippi residents, and both schools enrolled entirely in-state classes. For most applicants, the public schools in their own state are the place to start.
Do In-State Applicants Have a Better Chance?
In-state applicants often have an advantage at public medical schools, but the size of that advantage varies. In-state residents sent 22% of all applications in 2025-2026 yet made up 59.3% of matriculants, and 52 of 94 public schools filled at least 75% of their classes with in-state residents.
What Is the Acceptance Rate for DO Schools?
AACOM does not publish a national acceptance rate for DO schools. It reported 23,114 applicants and 11,687 first-year students in 2025-2026, or roughly two applicants per place, but enrollment is not the same as the number accepted.
What MCAT Score and GPA Give You a Good Chance of Acceptance?
No MCAT and GPA combination guarantees acceptance. Across the combined 2023-2024 through 2025-2026 cycles, applicants with a GPA above 3.79 and an MCAT above 517 had an 83.3% acceptance rate, but that is a past group outcome rather than an individual prediction. Residency, school selection and the rest of the application still matter.
