After a several years of preparation, the University of Georgia of School of Medicine has officially welcomed its first students. The inaugural class of 64 students were selected from a pool of more than 2,000 applications and a round of 235 interviews. Most of the students, 95 percent of them, are Georgia residents – part of a deliberate goal of strengthening the state’s physician workforce. 

Additionally, 80 percent of the class received their undergraduate degrees from Georgia colleges, half of them from UGA. The average MCAT score for the students is 514, a smidge higher than the national average, with an average GPA of 3.85.   

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