Is there a real MCAT GPA acceptance rate chart?

Yes -- AAMC publishes Table A-23, a grid of national acceptance rates for every combination of MCAT score band and undergraduate GPA band, based on real applicant and acceptee counts. It's free and public, unlike per-school MCAT/GPA data, which sits behind AAMC's paid MSAR database.

What MCAT and GPA do you need for a 50% acceptance rate?

It depends on which score is stronger. In AAMC's 2023-2026 data, a 3.60-3.79 GPA crosses 50% around a 510-513 MCAT (60% acceptance rate); a 3.40-3.59 GPA needs a higher 514-517 MCAT to clear 50% (56.5%); and a 3.80+ GPA crosses 50% at a lower 506-509 MCAT (57.1%) -- the two scores trade off directly against each other rather than either one having a fixed threshold on its own.

The Real MCAT/GPA Acceptance Rate Chart: AAMC's Actual Grid, Explained

GPA \ MCAT	Less than 486	486-489	490-493	494-497	498-501	502-505	506-509	510-513	514-517	Greater than 517
Greater than 3.79	2.8%	3.4%	8%	18.5%	30.6%	44.9%	57.1%	70.5%	77.2%	83.3%
3.60-3.79	1.6%	2.8%	4.4%	11.8%	22.3%	34.7%	45.4%	60%	66.7%	71.3%
3.40-3.59	0.5%	0.8%	4.4%	9.7%	20%	30.3%	36.7%	48.7%	56.5%	66.4%
3.20-3.39	0.3%	1.7%	2.8%	7.8%	17.5%	24.7%	31.8%	42.3%	45.5%	60.7%
3.00-3.19	0.4%	1.7%	2.3%	6.5%	15.4%	23.2%	28.4%	37.4%	43.3%	46.5%
2.80-2.99	0.3%	1.3%	1.6%	5.6%	10.8%	23.3%	27.7%	39%	36.4%	41.7%
2.60-2.79	0.2%	1.7%	1.9%	4.5%	10.4%	17.9%	22.1%	33.8%	32%	35.7%
2.40-2.59	0.5%	0%	1.8%	1.6%	12.5%	17.9%	21.4%	37.5%	53.8%	Fewer than 10 applicants -- AAMC doesn't report a rate for this combination.
2.20-2.39	0%	3.4%	1.6%	4.5%	3.7%	5.3%	14.3%	9.1%	Fewer than 10 applicants -- AAMC doesn't report a rate for this combination.	Fewer than 10 applicants -- AAMC doesn't report a rate for this combination.
2.00-2.19	0%	0%	0%	5%	11.8%	21.4%	Fewer than 10 applicants -- AAMC doesn't report a rate for this combination.	Fewer than 10 applicants -- AAMC doesn't report a rate for this combination.	Fewer than 10 applicants -- AAMC doesn't report a rate for this combination.	No applicants recorded in this exact combination.
Less than 2.00	0%	Fewer than 10 applicants -- AAMC doesn't report a rate for this combination.	Fewer than 10 applicants -- AAMC doesn't report a rate for this combination.	Fewer than 10 applicants -- AAMC doesn't report a rate for this combination.	Fewer than 10 applicants -- AAMC doesn't report a rate for this combination.	Fewer than 10 applicants -- AAMC doesn't report a rate for this combination.	Fewer than 10 applicants -- AAMC doesn't report a rate for this combination.	No applicants recorded in this exact combination.	Fewer than 10 applicants -- AAMC doesn't report a rate for this combination.	No applicants recorded in this exact combination.

Search "MCAT GPA acceptance rate chart" and you'll find plenty of secondhand summaries, screenshots, and forum posts -- but the real thing is a public AAMC table, updated most years, and it's more precise (and more limited) than most of what gets repeated about it.

The real grid: AAMC Table A-23

AAMC's Table A-23 -- "MCAT and GPA Grid for Applicants and Acceptees to U.S. MD-Granting Medical Schools" -- cross-tabulates every applicant and acceptee over a rolling 3-year window by MCAT score band and undergraduate GPA band, and reports the actual acceptance rate for each combination. The current release covers 2023-2024 through 2025-2026: 155,940 total applicants, 70,289 acceptees, for an overall acceptance rate of 45.1% across everyone who applied.

That overall number is nearly meaningless on its own, though -- it blends someone with a 3.9 GPA and a 518 MCAT (who cleared 83.3% acceptance in this data) with someone at a 2.4 GPA and a 490 MCAT (1.8%). The whole point of the grid is that those two applicants aren't in the same pool. Use the MCAT/GPA lookup tool above to find your own exact combination instead of eyeballing the chart.

How to actually read the grid

A few things matter more than they look like they should:

Both axes move together, not independently, and they don't cost the same. A 3.60-3.79 GPA with a 514-517 MCAT sits at 66.7% in this data. Move the MCAT down one band to 510-513 (same GPA) and it drops to 60% -- a 6.7-point cost. Move the GPA down one band instead, to 3.40-3.59 at the same 514-517 MCAT, and it drops further, to 56.5% -- a 10.2-point cost. In this part of the grid, a one-band GPA slip costs more than a one-band MCAT slip, not less.
Cells with fewer than 10 applicants are suppressed, not zero. AAMC marks these "-" rather than publishing an unreliable rate off a tiny sample, and this app follows the same rule in the chart above -- a low GPA (below 2.20) combined with a strong MCAT is one of these suppressed cells, because almost nobody with a sub-2.20 GPA applies with a competitive MCAT score in the first place.
This is a national aggregate across every U.S. MD-granting school, not a prediction for any specific school. No public, redistributable dataset publishes a real per-school MCAT/GPA acceptance breakdown -- that data exists only inside AAMC's paid MSAR database, and its terms of use explicitly prohibit extracting or republishing it. Anything claiming to show "Harvard Medical School's real MCAT/GPA cutoffs" outside of that paid, individual-subscriber tool is not sourced from anywhere legitimate.

What moves the needle more: MCAT or GPA?

Looking at the extremes in both directions is revealing, but not in a clean way. Holding GPA fixed at "Greater than 3.79" and moving MCAT from the bottom band to the top band takes the acceptance rate from 2.8% to 83.3% -- an 80.5-point swing across the full MCAT range. Holding MCAT fixed at "Greater than 517" and moving GPA down, the picture is messier: every GPA band below 2.60 is either suppressed (too few applicants) or has zero applicants at all with a top-tier MCAT score. The lowest GPA band with a real, reportable rate at that MCAT level is 2.60-2.79, at 35.7% -- a 47.6-point swing down from 83.3%, smaller than the MCAT swing, but starting from a much higher floor.

That's not proof MCAT "matters more" in some absolute sense -- it's partly an artifact of who actually applies. Almost nobody with a sub-2.60 GPA submits an application with a 518+ MCAT, so the grid simply has no data to show what a truly weak GPA paired with an elite MCAT would look like. What the grid does show cleanly, from the one-band comparison above, is that neither score is a free pass for the other: a strong MCAT doesn't erase a GPA slip, and a strong GPA doesn't erase an MCAT slip -- both move the real rate by a meaningful amount.

What this doesn't tell you

It says nothing about your specific undergraduate school. Undergraduate prestige is a minor tiebreaker at best once GPA and MCAT are accounted for -- this grid is exactly the data behind that claim. Real "feeder school" data backs up the same point from a different angle: where you went undergrad predicts almost nothing once you're admitted.
It doesn't capture in-state effects. Your home state changes your real odds independently of your MCAT and GPA -- see which states give you the best in-state odds.
It's a national average, not a specific school's cutoff. For how acceptance rates vary by the type of medical school (state MD programs, DO schools, Caribbean schools), see which medical schools accept at the highest rates.

The real grid: AAMC Table A-23

How to actually read the grid

What moves the needle more: MCAT or GPA?

What this doesn't tell you

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