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Just wanted to start a list of medical schools that don't like non-traditional students for any of the following reasons: (1) not enough science courses (i.e. only have minimum prereqs from postbac); (2) lack of research/clinical experience; (3) fear of career changers; (4) fear of students who performed poorly in the past; and (5) fear of older people and/or parents.
I'll start based on lurking on the board and seeing how non-traditionals fared on this board:
UC Davis
UC Irvine
This is all nonsense.Just wanted to start a list of medical schools that don't like non-traditional students for any of the following reasons: (1) not enough science courses (i.e. only have minimum prereqs from postbac); (2) lack of research/clinical experience; (3) fear of career changers; (4) fear of students who performed poorly in the past; and (5) fear of older people and/or parents.
UC irvine rejected me almost instantly after turning in my secondary and I have lots of research & science coursework
uhhhhhm, but your MDapps shows you were rejected from many school? so one insta-reject from UC irvine is not really setting off any non-trad hater alarm bells imo...
Every year on SDN somebody tries to start an "anti-nontrad" list, and it goes nowhere, because "anti-nontrad" isn't a thing.Which schools are not friendly to non-traditionals due to being research-oriented and/or placing a high value on stats (all medical schools do, but some are more open to consider other factors such as life experience than others)?
Your reasons aren't very persuasive as it merely re-characterizes my points.
Which schools are not friendly to non-traditionals due to being research-oriented and/or placing a high value on stats (all medical schools do, but some are more open to consider other factors such as life experience than others)?
Ah, well, now we get to the actual issue here. What you really want to know is, what schools would not be interested in a nontrad *like you.* That's a different question than asking what schools aren't interested in nontrads in general. Your points are not valid if speaking of all nontrads, because all nontrads aren't like you.Can I ask what background the non-traditionals had? I imagine most of us non-traditionals are not science PhDs....