What FACTS Is
FACTS is the Association of American Medical Colleges' free set of data tables on the people who apply to and enroll in US MD-granting medical schools. The current release, 2025 FACTS: Applicants and Matriculants Data, covers the 2025–26 cycle. Each table is an Excel download; there is no login and no fee. It covers MD programs only: osteopathic (DO) schools report through a separate system.
The Four Tables Most People Need
Table 1: the national totals
Applicants, matriculants, total enrollment and graduates for every year since 2016–17. In 2025–26 there were 54,699 applicants and 23,440 matriculants, and total MD enrollment passed 100,000 for the first time in the series (100,723). Applicant numbers peaked at 62,443 in 2021–22.
Table A-1: applications and matriculants by school
For each school, the number of applications and matriculants, split by state of legal residence and gender. This is where per-school volume and the in-state share of each entering class come from. In 2025–26, A-1 counted 1,066,896 applications, an average of 19.5 per applicant. Our guide to how many medical schools to apply to uses it to show how strongly schools favor their own state's residents.
Table A-16: MCAT and GPA, applicants against matriculants
| 2025–26 | Mean MCAT | Mean GPA | Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| Applicants | 506.3 | 3.67 | 54,699 |
| Matriculants | 512.1 | 3.81 | 23,440 |
Source: AAMC FACTS Table A-16. Means, not medians.
Matriculant GPA has risen every year in the table, from 3.73 in 2020–21 to 3.81 in 2025–26, while the mean MCAT has stayed within half a point of 512.
Table A-23: the MCAT and GPA acceptance grid
A-23 sorts applicants into GPA bands and MCAT bands and reports the share accepted in each cell. Its counts are totals over three cycles, 2023–24 through 2025–26: 155,940 applicants, of whom 70,289 (45.1%) were accepted to at least one school. An excerpt:
| GPA | MCAT 502–505 | 506–509 | 510–513 | 514–517 | Above 517 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Above 3.79 | 44.9% | 57.1% | 70.5% | 77.2% | 83.3% |
| 3.60–3.79 | 34.7% | 45.4% | 60.0% | 66.7% | 71.3% |
| 3.40–3.59 | 30.3% | 36.7% | 48.7% | 56.5% | 66.4% |
| 3.20–3.39 | 24.7% | 31.8% | 42.3% | 45.5% | 60.7% |
| 3.00–3.19 | 23.2% | 28.4% | 37.4% | 43.3% | 46.5% |
Source: AAMC FACTS Table A-23, 2023–24 through 2025–26 aggregated. Share of applicants in each cell accepted to at least one US MD school.
How to Read A-23 Without Misreading It
- It is acceptance anywhere, not at a school. An 83.3% cell means 83.3% of those applicants were accepted by at least one school. Their odds at any single school were far lower.
- It does not hold list size constant. Applicants in the top cells often apply widely. Your own odds depend on how many and which schools you apply to.
- Small cells are noisy. The corners of the grid, such as a low GPA with a high MCAT, hold few applicants, so a percentage there can swing on a handful of people.
- MCAT and GPA are not everything. State of residence, mission fit and experience change outcomes inside every cell.
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- A-2 and A-2.1 to A-2.6: undergraduate institutions supplying the most applicants, overall and by race and ethnicity.
- A-3 and A-4: applicants and matriculants by state of legal residence over ten years.
- A-5: applicants by whether they enrolled in or out of their home state.
- A-7.1 and A-7.2: applicants, first-time applicants, acceptees and matriculants by gender.
- A-12 and A-18: the same counts, and MCAT and GPA, by race and ethnicity.
- A-17: MCAT and GPA by primary undergraduate major.
- A-19 and A-20: MCAT and GPA by state of residence, for applicants and matriculants.
- A-24, A-26 and A-27: socioeconomic status, first-generation status, and Fee Assistance Program recipients.
What FACTS Leaves Out
FACTS has no per-school MCAT or GPA medians. For those you need the AAMC's paid MSAR database or the class profiles some schools publish themselves. AdmitBase shows a school's own published figures where it has found them and says when it has not.
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