BCMP- no effect on LizzyM score?

wahoo2010 · Jun 30, 2008

I was playing with LizzyM score. I put 3.8 overall GPA, 3.8 BCMP, and 35 MCAT. This isn't my true stats, btw. I then changed 3.8 BCMP to 2.0 BCMP. Nothing happened. I thought BCMP is an important factor in medical school admissions?

Lukkie · Jun 30, 2008

it is important but my homegirl Lizzy M doesn't separate the BCPM from overall score calculation

Law2Doc · Jun 30, 2008

wahoo2010 said:
I was playing with LizzyM score. I put 3.8 overall GPA, 3.8 BCMP, and 35 MCAT. This isn't my true stats, btw. I then changed 3.8 BCMP to 2.0 BCMP. Nothing happened. I thought BCMP is an important factor in medical school admissions?

BCPM is likely important if you have a lot of nonsci courses, because the BCPM and GPA will be significantly different. The LizzyM score however is not particularly important -- I know of no school that actually uses that particular formulaic approach. It is really meant just to give you a "quick and dirty", "back of the envelope" rough idea of your level of competitiveness, which you can then compare to MSAR numbers, not as a reasonable representation of how an adcom would look at it. So I wouldn't waste much time.

wahoo2010 · Jun 30, 2008

Law2Doc said:
BCPM is likely important if you have a lot of nonsci courses, because the BCPM and GPA will be significantly different. The LizzyM score however is not particularly important -- I know of no school that actually uses that particular formulaic approach. It is really meant just to give you a "quick and dirty", "back of the envelope" rough idea of your level of competitiveness, which you can then compare to MSAR numbers, not as a reasonable representation of how an adcom would look at it. So I wouldn't waste much time.

Makes sense.

relientr · Jul 3, 2008

Where do you find this? Is there a link?

alwaysaangel · Jul 3, 2008

wahoo2010 said:
I was playing with LizzyM score. I put 3.8 overall GPA, 3.8 BCMP, and 35 MCAT. This isn't my true stats, btw. I then changed 3.8 BCMP to 2.0 BCMP. Nothing happened. I thought BCMP is an important factor in medical school admissions?

No offense, but there is a major flaw in your math. There is almost no way that BCMP is going to be that low and overall so high. Even if you ONLY took your prereqs and everything else was non-science. Sure BCMP could be a couple of tenths of a point away from overall but not too much more than that.

Plus, as L2D said - its just quick and dirty.

Raryn · Jul 3, 2008

relientr said:
Where do you find this? Is there a link?

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=527971 works as a quick and dirty way to compare schools using LizzyM. It gets rather inaccurate at the high end of the scale though. (i.e. if your LizzyM score is 77, it will say you're a shoe-in for everything)

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