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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Above poster seems to imply that students take gap year if GPA is lower. That is not true for many students. Many with top GPA and MCAT are taking gap years to further strengthen their apps as the process has become ultra competitive. [/quote]

Not at our two kid's different schools, both schools in the top-6 (ivy+) med school feeder list. Gap years are not as common at these schools as nationally and they are usually used for GPA issues. Not always: some top students have a funded 5th year somewhere and do it for the prestige. There are many current seniors at both schools that are already admitted to top-5 programs this year, no gap, as well as some superstars who had funded gap years who  are  also in top-5 programs. Most gap students are not the top-25% at these schools. Some are. Almost all Top-5 admits are non-gap year students, and the gapped ones who are into T-5 are doing extraordinary, funded, "known" fellowship type experiences with their gap. 
From TOP SCHOOLS gaps are absolutely not needed to get into top-5 med schools, and not needed for "average" elite school students to get into T-25 med schools. [/quote]

This isn't true. Harvard themselves say that 75-80% of their graduates take a gap year. The same 75%+ holds for the Ivies in general. Almost all T5 admits do take a gap year. It isn't helpful when people post made up numbers like the PP.[/quote]
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