Inside the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: What the Numbers Really Say
The 2025 cycle at a glance
Applications Received
9,149 (MD, including Early Assurance, and MD-PhD combined; 2025 cycle)
Interviews Conducted
910 (about 10% of applicants)
Students Enrolled
128 (118 MD and 10 MD-PhD), roughly 1.4% of applicants (our calculation from the school's figures)
Average GPA
3.81 (third-party source; see note below)
Average MCAT
519 (third-party source; see note below)
Interview Format
Two 30-minute, semi-structured interviews with admissions committee members, offered on a rolling basis from August through February
Who's In The Class
54% women, mean age 23 (range 20-39), 14% first-generation college students, 33% with two or more gap years, 52 undergraduate schools and 31 states represented, and over 20 languages spoken at an advanced or native level
What stands out
The first thing is the math. More than 9,000 applications came in for 128 seats. Only about one in ten applicants was invited to interview, and the class that enrolled was roughly 1.4% of the applicant pool. That’s a low number, but it’s worth remembering that the pool includes MD-PhD and Early Assurance applicants, so not every applicant is competing for the same seats.
The second thing is that the class isn’t a stack of identical résumés. A third of students took two or more gap years, 14% were the first in their families to attend college, and the class came from 52 undergraduate schools across 31 states. If you’re a non-traditional applicant or you took time to work, do research, or serve your community, this profile suggests that path is well represented.
The third thing is the interview. Mount Sinai holds two 30-minute, semi-structured interviews with members of the admissions committee. With only about one in ten applicants invited, the invitation is the hardest part. Once you’re in the room, expect a real conversation about your experiences and your reasons for choosing medicine.
What this means for your MCAT
Third-party sources put the average MCAT for this class around 519, so a strong score will help you here. It won’t guarantee anything, and a lower score doesn’t automatically rule you out, since Mount Sinai says it reviews applications holistically. Still, the safest approach is to go into test day with a study plan. If your practice scores are a few points below your goal, you have time to close that gap, and it’s much easier to do that now than to retake the exam later.
A note on our sources: Mount Sinai’s own Facts & Figures page (icahn.mssm.edu/about/facts) confirms the application, interview, enrollment, and demographic numbers above. The school does not publish average GPA or MCAT on the pages we could access, so the 3.81 GPA and 519 MCAT come from Shemmassian Academic Consulting’s Icahn guide (2025-26 entering class data), not from the school. Other third-party guides (MedEdits, Premed Catalyst) cite different figures for a different cycle (9,551 applicants, 798 interviews, and a median GPA of 3.95 / MCAT of 520), so treat any GPA/MCAT number as approximate and check the school’s current class profile before you build a school list around it.
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– Daniella, MCAT KING
Sources: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Facts & Figures (icahn.mssm.edu/about/facts) and MD Program Admissions (icahn.mssm.edu/education/admissions/md-program); Shemmassian Academic Consulting, ‘How to Get Into the Icahn School of Medicine’ (shemmassianconsulting.com); MedEdits and Premed Catalyst (for comparison only).