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Illinois resident
above average ECs
Haven't posted anything too offensive on SDN
Chances?
3.68c/3.64s/25
Illinois resident
above average ECs
Haven't posted anything too offensive on SDN
Chances?
Why isn't anyone posting here anyway? People seemed to be eager about this school last year.
3.68c/3.64s/25
Illinois resident
above average ECs
Haven't posted anything too offensive on SDN
Chances?
Alabama is one of my top choices.
I am applying to DO schools from North Carolina to Georgia.
My Overall GPA is 3.56, Science 3.31, MCAT 23.
I'm waiting on my new MCAT scores.
Georgia Resident.
I have a graduate degree (cum laude) and a Biology Degree (Summa Cum Laude).
100 hours shadowing a DO.
Currently a college science professor and practicing healthcare professional.
I have letter of recs from MD and DO.
My low MCAT worries me.
Any class of 2017 have a similar MCAT?
I had very similar stats to you. My GPA was a little higher (3.6 sGPA; 3.5 cGPA) but had the exact same MCAT. I was also a non-traditional applicant (3 years removed from undergrad, current healthcare job, etc). I was accepted to several schools (including ACOM).I'll echo what the above poster said about your essays -- most of my interviewees commented on the quality of my essays and personal statement. I am an Alabama resident which probably helped a little bit. Apply early and good luck!
Well, this is my top choice, so I suppose I'll post. But I agree. I haven't posted on here yet because I'm still following the other thread.
Alabama is one of my top choices.
I am applying to DO schools from North Carolina to Georgia.
My Overall GPA is 3.56, Science 3.31, MCAT 23.
I'm waiting on my new MCAT scores.
Georgia Resident.
I have a graduate degree (cum laude) and a Biology Degree (Summa Cum Laude).
100 hours shadowing a DO.
Currently a college science professor and practicing healthcare professional.
I have letter of recs from MD and DO.
My low MCAT worries me.
Any class of 2017 have a similar MCAT?
Hi SmartiePants, I will echo the others in regards to your MCAT and low sci GPA. Are you planning on retaking the MCAT anytime soon? Does your sci GPA show upward trends? I think there were a couple from the previous cycle with similar stats. You can scroll through the pages of the last cycle's to search or you can just study for the test again. Also, work on their essays because they really do read it.
The wait listers are still waiting for the final say. No stats released as of yet, that I know of at least.
Give us a ballpark of competitiveness in term of stats. For instance I have a 3.15cGPA, 3.35sGPA; will a 26+ MCAT mitigate my low cGPA?
My application is going to be delayed because of difficulties obtaining transcripts. I really wanted to be in the first batch they would receive. Oh well. I guess since I'm practically living on campus, I can really interview at any time (if they invite me). But I really wanted to be one of the first!
anyone have first year stats?
I have a 3.2 sGPA 3.59 cGPA and a 21 with a lot of EC; Do I have a shot here?
That MCAT is most likely too low. Are your URM and or from AL? If so you might squeak through. I would contact admissions and ask them. The staff is amazing and will get you the info you need.
My stats were: c3.2 s3.5 MCAT 27 10,9,8
That MCAT is most likely too low. Are your URM and or from AL? If so you might squeak through. I would contact admissions and ask them. The staff is amazing and will get you the info you need.
My stats were: c3.2 s3.5 MCAT 27 10,9,8
I'm assuming you were accepted? Did you have to have a LOR from a DO for this school?
I was accepted. I had a letter from a DO and MD. My DO letter was from a DO that had never used OMM in her ED. I would suggest shadowing a DO that uses OMM so you have that experience to speak to.
I was accepted too, didn't have a DO letter. Didn't shadow one either.
For those that were accepted last cycle- anyone know if you can receive secondary materials prior to MCAT scores release- my AACOMAS app is submitted and awaiting verification but my MCAT scores won't post until July 23
does anyone know if we can send more than 3 LOR's? My school does a letter packet with 6 letters and sends it out to the schools. Is there any chance this would have a neg effect on my app?
Usually it won't. Adcoms will most likely just pick the first 3 and stop reading.
Below are some of the major reasons why I am attending ACOM this Fall:
-The very established and mature rotation sites. This also includes Southeast Alabama Medical Center. The majority of rotation sites will be throughout Alabama, with some in north Florida, and with GA under negotiation (last I heard). The AMEC Alabama rotation sites have been around since 2005. This is SUPER awesome! I can not say enough how important this information was in my decision to attend ACOM. I have heard of horror stories from students at other DO colleges where the school would call students the morning of starting a new rotation to tell students that said rotation site is no longer under contract with said DO school and that the student will need to go drive 45 mins out of the way to go to a different rotation site. This resulted in the student showing up late on the first day of starting a new rotation!!!!! With the established rotation sites at ACOM, students will move to the city of their designated site and rotate there for 3rd and 4th year. Students will not have to worry about moving after each rotation unless they want to do interview rotations.
- ACOM is the only DO school that shares a campus with a major regional hospital.
- The system based curriculum resulting in a more well-rounded and integrated education. Everything will be interwoven.
- Clinical exposure beginning year 1 - like first week school starts!
- Nutrition will be interwoven into the curriculum. With obesity in America increasing and thus increase in other severe health issues, I can not believe that only a handful of medical schools in the US have nutrition in their curriculum
- All exam questions will be written board style. Dean Lenz consults other DO schools on how to help their students pass boards. Dean Lenz WRITES or has written board questions all DO students take!!! Also, all professors were and will be required to pass qualifications to ensure that they can write questions board style!!! Can you not see the benefit in this for future ACOM students?
- The new state-of-the-art building. The lecture auditoriums are designed to provide increased visibility for students. The Anatomy and OMM labs are spacious and also provide increased visibility for students. The clinical exam rooms were designed and built to look EXACTLY like the NBOME National Center in PA where we take the COMLEX 2 PE section. The many study rooms available 24/7 for students. All of the above shows the level of attention-to-detail the school and its leadership are putting into the college and its students. They didn't just build (or buy) a boring building, plop a sign on it, and call it a So and So College of Osteopathic Medicine. It was built with consideration and thoughtfulness for the success of its students and comfort of its staff.
- Eight weeks to study for boards (4 weeks of light clinical and OMM classes, 4 weeks completely free).
- Textbooks and tablet included with tuition. Yes, tuition is a little over $40K per year, but it will not be latent with fees, fees, and more fees. For the nonbusiness minded student, you need to understand now that everything will add up to a lot of money.
- Cheap living in Dothan means less loans. A two-four hundred dollar difference per month for two or four years + interest will add up to tens of thousands of dollars after you pay off your loans!!!!
- Dothan is not a large city but it is not rural either. This means, as a student, I will have access to essential businesses (grocery stores, shops for cloths and furniture, bars and movies (when I take a breather from studying), good variety of restaurants and eateries, hotels and inns for when family visits, etc). But most importantly, I wont have to deal with bumper to bumper traffic either (Dallas and LA during traffic hour anyone?)!!!! I have lived in many big cities and traffic is not fun and is a major stress inducer. And I am ready to leave the stress of living in a big city behind.
There is never a 100% and perfect certainty in medical training and in medicine in general. Things are always changing and if we go into medical school with an inflexible mindset then I think we will be disappointed more often than not. However, I obtained this information from the AMEC website and from my interview at ACOM last Oct. In the Pipeline page, it states that each core site has the ability of providing all required rotations. http://www.amecdo.com/pipeline.phpThose are some major pluses. How can you be sure that students will stay at one site for their clinicals?
I do not know the percentage of OOS accepted for the current entering class. But I can tell you that I am an OOS student and was accepted very early in the cycle (early November). In the ACOM Class of 2017 fb group, there are many of us from OOS. Since ACOM is a private college, it does not have a state mandated in-state student body requirement. Personally, I believe ACOM is more interested in selecting students that are more likely to be successful medical students and later compassionate physicians than they are at fulfilling some arbitrary in-state percentage.Do you know what percentage of OOS are there?
I am applying here this cycle and I have a 3.86 overall gpa and a 3.78 science and scored a 23 6ps9v8bs on my mcat. I am a Hispanic Texas resident.
ACOM's website states that they screen for secondary invites, is this the actual case? Do they really prescreen candidates?