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Okay I appreciate the honesty. Just out of curiosity, can you give me some examples of EC's that would put me above the "average at best" category?
I'm just wondering because I was told by my school's med advisory board to look at schools like Duke, UNC, UPenn, and Yale based on my current ECs and GPA. And I have no idea why they would tell me to look at schools like that if my ECs were just average ya know? And obviously I'm applying to all the NJ schools, it's not like I would just look at those schools I mentioned above.
Okay I'll try to get involved in some more volunteering. I'm continuing my shadowing experience at the ER over the break and ill be doing it in the summer as well so hopefully that helps.
I've heard that Kaplan tests are harder than the real thing? I was poking around on the Kaplan forum and everyone was saying the Kap tests are harder. What makes you say they're easier?
My clinical experience has been all shadowing. Sorry for the confusion.
I'm hoping to get a publication by fall of senior year.
Oh okay wow that's surprising considering I heard the exact opposite. But thank you for letting me know this!
Okay I'll try to get involved in some more volunteering. I'm continuing my shadowing experience at the ER over the break and ill be doing it in the summer as well so hopefully that helps.
I've heard that Kaplan tests are harder than the real thing? I was poking around on the Kaplan forum and everyone was saying the Kap tests are harder. What makes you say they're easier?
top 20 unlikely unless you crush your MCAT 35+ balanced
to be frank and honest, your EC's are average at best so it kinda rides on your MCAT (as do most applications)
your "bad" semester won't hurt you.
Okay yeah I gotcha. I appreciate the input. Do you think I should be looking at DO schools instead of MD schools then? Where would I need to score on my MCAT to be competitive for MD schools? Like maybe Robert Wood Johnson or NJMS since I'm from Jersey?
Okay yeah I definitely want above a 30, but I'm honestly just looking to do as best as I possibly can--so we'll see where I end up.
We say we are the #1 regional school. I go to The College of New Jersey in case you were wondering. We also like to talk about how we have the highest retention rate out of any state school in the country. We have a 95% retention rate, and the national average for a state school is 67%.