MSPA Student Entry Characteristics

Demographics

• Age: 25 years
• Gender: 79% women
• California Residence: 62%
• Underrepresented Minority (URM)*: 25%
• Educationally/Economically Disadvantaged^#: 33%

*As defined by the California Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI), URM includes: Black, African-American, or African; Latino or Hispanic; American Indian, Native American, or Native Alaskan; Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander; and Asian other than Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Pakistani, Asian Indian, and Thai. 

^#Per Health Resources and Services Administration variables collected at time of application. 

Academic Performance

GPA (mean)

• Overall: 3.64
• Science: 3.61

GRE (% mean)

• Quantitative: 69
• Verbal: 77
• Analytic: 78

Clinical, Research, and Volunteer Experience Hours 

• Clinical Experience: 3,141
• Research Experience: 1,034
• Volunteer Experience: 446

Demographics

• Age: 25 years
• Gender: 63% women
• California Residence: 81%
• Underrepresented Minority (URM)*: 11%
• Educationally/Economically Disadvantaged^#: 41%

*As defined by the California Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI), URM includes: Black, African-American or African; Latino or Hispanic; American Indian, Native American, or Native Alaskan; Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander; and Asian other than Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Pakistani, Asian Indian, and Thai. 

^#Per Health Resources and Services Administration variables collected at time of application.

Academic Performance

GPA (mean)

• Overall: 3.64
• Science: 3.57

GRE (% mean)

• Quantitative: 67.1
• Verbal: 76.6
• Analytic: 81.5

Clinical, Research, and Volunteer Experience Hours

• Clinical Experience: 3,242
• Research Experience: 1,170
• Volunteer Experience: 419

Demographics

• Age: 25 years
• Gender: 83% women
• California Residence: 72%
• Underrepresented Minority (URM)*: 45%
• Educationally/Economically Disadvantaged^#: 52%

*As defined by the California Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI), URM includes: Black, African-American or African; Latino or Hispanic; American Indian, Native American, or Native Alaskan; Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander; and Asian other than Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Pakistani, Asian Indian, and Thai. 

^#Per Health Resources and Services Administration variables collected at time of application.

Academic Performance

GPA (mean)

• Overall: 3.64
• Science: 3.58

GRE (% mean)

• Quantitative: 71
• Verbal: 77
• Analytic: 74

Clinical, Research, and Volunteer Experience Hours

• Clinical Experience: 3,422
• Research Experience: 1,777
• Volunteer Experience: 118

Demographics

• Age: 25 years
• Gender: 64% women
• California Residence: 60%
• Underrepresented Minority (URM)*: 32%
• Educationally/Economically Disadvantaged^#: 18%

*As defined by the California Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI), URM includes: Black, African-American or African; Latino or Hispanic; American Indian, Native American, or Native Alaskan; Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander; and Asian other than Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Pakistani, Asian Indian, and Thai. 

^#Per Health Resources and Services Administration variables collected at time of application.

Academic Performance

GPA (mean)

• Overall: 3.6
• Science: 3.6

GRE (% mean)

• Quantitative: 66
• Verbal: 73
• Analytic: 79

Clinical, Research, and Volunteer Experience Hours

• Clinical Experience: 3,782
• Research Experience: 783
• Volunteer Experience: 411

Demographics

• Age: 23 years
• Gender: 89% women
• California Residence: 46%
• Underrepresented Minority (URM)*: 22%
• Educationally/Economically Disadvantaged^#: 29%

*As defined by the California Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI), URM includes: Black, African-American or African; Latino or Hispanic; American Indian, Native American, or Native Alaskan; Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander; and Asian other than Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Pakistani, Asian Indian, and Thai. 

^#Per Health Resources and Services Administration variables collected at time of application.

Academic Performance

GPA (mean)

• Overall: 3.65
• Science: 3.70

GRE (% mean)

• Quantitative: 68
• Verbal: 76
• Analytic: 82

Clinical, Research, and Volunteer Experience Hours

• Clinical Experience: 2,274
• Research Experience: 999
• Volunteer Experience: 441

Demographics

• Age: 26 years
• Gender: 96% women
• California Residence: 55%
• Underrepresented Minority (URM)*: 26%
• Educationally/Economically Disadvantaged^#: 37%

*As defined by the California Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI), URM includes: Black, African-American, or African; Latino or Hispanic; American Indian, Native American, or Native Alaskan; Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander; and Asian other than Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Pakistani, Asian Indian, and Thai. 

^#Per Health Resources and Services Administration variables collected at time of application.

Academic Performance

GPA (mean)

• Overall: 3.69
• Science: 3.65

GRE (% mean)

• Quantitative: 68
• Verbal: 75
• Analytic: 76

Clinical, Research, and Volunteer Experience Hours

• Clinical Experience: 3,187
• Research Experience: 575
• Volunteer Experience: 489

Demographics

• Age: 26 years
• Gender: 81% women
• California residence: 52%
• Underrepresented minority (URM)*: 15%
• Educationally/Economically Disadvantaged^#: 22%

*As defined by the California Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI), URM includes: Black, African-American, or African; Latino or Hispanic; American Indian, Native American, or Native Alaskan; Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander; and Asian other than Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Pakistani, Asian Indian, and Thai. 

^#Per Health Resources and Services Administration variables collected at time of application.

Academic Performance

GPA (mean)

• Overall: 3.62
• Science: 3.54

GRE (% mean)

• Quantitative: 76
• Verbal: 85
• Analytic: 76

Clinical, Research, and Volunteer Experience Hours 

• Clinical Experience: 2,941
• Research Experience: 899
• Volunteer Experience: 796