2013-2014 Underdawgs Thread ( Lets get it)

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Poliscidoc said:
I have home to the conclusion that 75% of the information found on SDN is either grossly over overestimated or underestimated. Lets me honest it's a crap shoot some people get in with 23's and some get rejected with 32's.

At the end of the day did a 23 get my in to medical school-yes

Should any strive to get a 23-no

Competitiveness is for adcoms to judge not a forum full or neurotic premeds


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This might sound weird but people say that it's harder to get into a D.O school if you have a ridiculously high MCAT score. They might think that you're just applying to them as a backup.
 
Columbia09 said:
This might sound weird but people say that it's harder to get into a D.O school if you have a ridiculously high MCAT score. They might think that you're just applying to them as a backup.
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This is probably true, no school wants to waste an interview slot.

But based on my own experience I would guess that this discrimination starts at high 30s or maybe 40+ if at all. I have a 9x% MCAT and interviews from every osteo school I have applied to that has sent out any invites, except for 2 lower stat ones. If someone has a compelling reason they are interested in becoming a DO then discrimination for high scores seems to not be an issue.
 
Anicetus said:
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Even though you have a six in verbal, I highly doubt schools will turn you down. Everything else looks excellent !
 
Liberty edited their admissions requirements. Looks like they have a cut off of a 22 MCAT with no subscore lower than a 6. They also removed the biochem requirement.
 
verynice said:
Liberty edited their admissions requirements. Looks like they have a cut off of a 22 MCAT with no subscore lower than a 6. They also removed the biochem requirement.
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Really ? A 6 shouldn't be a problem though that's usually less than half right. I surprised that the cut off is 22 considering how new the school is. Also I find it curious that top schools like NYCOM don't have cutoffs but the lower tier do.
 
verynice said:
Liberty edited their admissions requirements. Looks like they have a cut off of a 22 MCAT with no subscore lower than a 6. They also removed the biochem requirement.
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Their website states that biochem is still a requirement.
 
touchpause13 said:
Who takes cell bio
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Ahhhh me... It was a required writing intensive class called molecular and cellular biology. 4 credits. ACtually it was just called Biology: Molecules and Cells. Painfully dry class
 
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It would seem that they're making it harder and harder for non science majors to enter med school with all these additional requirements.
 
verynice said:
I had a choice between that and biochem 2. I forgot that my school required one of the two.
Did anyone take bioinformatics?
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My school has it but I was told not to take it because it's very boring. It's basically just data analysis similar to statistics
 
Columbia09 said:
It would seem that they're making it harder and harder for non science majors to enter med school with all these additional requirements.
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Which is kind of curious since the new MCAT in 2015 is going to have humanities components to it...
 
serenade said:
Bioinformatics is basically computer science & mathematical genetics.
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I took it in UG and it was a bunch of genetic analysis using online databanks like TIGR and NCBI (etc. etc.)

I rather liked the class but I ended up spending most of my life that semester dealing with it. I have to say, it seems to be one of the more important areas of biology.
 
verynice said:
I took it in UG and it was a bunch of genetic analysis using online databanks like TIGR and NCBI (etc. etc.)

I rather liked the class but I ended up spending most of my life that semester dealing with it. I have to say, it seems to be one of the more important areas of biology.
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It's also pretty much the only area of biology that you can actually make money in or really get big in without being a god from Harvard.
 
serenade said:
It's also pretty much the only area of biology that you can actually make money in or really get big in without being a god from Harvard.
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This is why it's very hard to tell a person on here "you should reconsider your career path". Lets face it most of us are bio majors if not something biology related and without medicine our job prospects go down significantly. Sure money isn't everything but it helps if you're coming out with over 50, 000 dollars in debt from undergrad.
 
Columbia09 said:
This is why it's very hard to tell a person on here "you should reconsider your career path". Lets face it most of us are bio majors if not something biology related and without medicine our job prospects go down significantly. Sure money isn't everything but it helps if you're coming out with over 50, 000 dollars in debt from undergrad.
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Research is also another a good field to get into, especially if you get your PhD. But I guess that depends if the person actually enjoys research or not.
 
bionerd89 said:
Research is also another a good field to get into, especially if you get your PhD. But I guess that depends if the person actually enjoys research or not.
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Ehhhh it's very hard to get a research job now especially a well paying one. The only other secure field besides medicine for bio majors is teaching and even that is sinking. I don't know if it's surprising or not but there are a large amount of pre meds who just do medicine for the security. If we don't get into medicine most of us are sunk.
 
tripl3s3v3n said:
Biology majors at my school were required to take it as a junior.
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Sophomore or junior at mine. Basically you had to decided if you wanted it in the same semester as organic or as physics.
 
Shinobiz11 said:
Anyone think I'll be fine with a 24+ MCAT, Thursday is looming!
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You will get in somewhere with 24-25, but 26+ will open more doors. 28+ will give you the opportunity to have a good shot at MD if your AMCAS GPAs are 3.5/3.3...
 
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ii at MUCOM and AZCOM so far!

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