University of Minnesota Medical School
MD program · public · Minnesota
Median GPA
3.72
entering class
Median MCAT
510
entering class
Acceptance rate
~7.1%
approximate
Class size
264
86% in-state
In-state vs. out-of-state
86% of the last entering class were Minnesota residents, which leaves about 38 seats for everyone else.
Minnesota resident
~39%
estimated odds
Out-of-state
~2%
estimated odds
Estimates for an applicant with this school's median GPA (3.72) and MCAT (510), from AAMC and AACOM applicant outcomes and this school's published figures. Where you live makes a big difference here. Estimates, not guarantees.
What they look for
- Service27%
- Academics25%
- Clinical experience22%
- Research17%
- Leadership9%
Two campuses with genuinely different missions under one application. The Twin Cities campus is a research-active state flagship; the Duluth campus, founded in 1972, exists to serve rural Minnesota and Native American communities and is a national leader in producing rural family physicians and American Indian physician graduates. Minnesota publishes an explicit Essential and Desired Qualities list, and the application carries optional Rural and Indigenous Health questions the school tells applicants to answer only if their record already shows a strong commitment to those communities. Applicants accepted in the Duluth mission context have demonstrated intent to practise family medicine rurally or in an American Indian community; Minnesota residents with that intent get priority, but out-of-state applicants with high demonstrated motivation are considered.
Watch out: Answering the optional Rural or Indigenous Health questions without a record behind them reads as strategic and is worse than leaving them blank. A research-heavy applicant with no rural or community exposure competes only for the Twin Cities campus, not both.
Our reading of this school's own published mission and selection criteria, not an official formula. How we source this
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