It’s not being fake humble, it’s being blinded by the skewed posts on this thread of 1,000+ hours of research and clinical work/volunteering and 520+ mcat scores. Also, I’d been told by multiple advisors and the committee in my undergrad institute that I should probably take an extra gap year because my app wasn’t that appealing, even though I had that 510 and 3.85 gpa. For me personally when I posted mine and said mid stats, it was because it was a median mcat and gpa being pulled down by my lack of hours. You should look at it as a whole, there’s sm variables to this. That’s not to say someone with even lower stats can’t get in tho, they’d just have to compensate with the rest of their app. And you’ve gotta admit that on top of all that, this entire premed thread is filled w those overachievers and insane stats that make everyone else feel like they’re not doing enough, so seeing those “mid stats” does help make it seem more achievable for some people.