2014-2015 University of Miami (Miller) Application Thread

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slopes23 said:
It supposed to only load your highest composite score.
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When I filled it out at first it had 28 there, I had to write in 34. It's kind of annoying that schools have programs that extract information from the AMCAS app and put it into their own form. Who knows what kinds of mistakes these programs make that we would never know about...
 
Hmm, I was complete on 7/14 but mine is still under review.
 
Question about MD/MPH program. I was originally planning on applying straight MD although I have interest and experience in public health. But I'm worried that my stats are slightly lower than the average: MCAT 30 (09PS/10VR/11BS) and cGPA 3.66, sGPA of 3.46 but with very strong upward trend; sGPA for sophomore year and beyond, during which time I took most of my science courses, is 3.87. ECs and LORs are both excellent though, plus I am a Spanish-speaker (although not URM) and a demonstrated interest in international medicine and serving underserved Latino populations. Also LGBT for what it's worth, although I'm not sure they will care about that.

So my question is, does it help to apply MD/MPH if your stats are slightly lower than the average, or is that program even more competitive than the regular MD program in terms of stats? I'd be happy with either program--I just really want to go to UM because I think it'd be a great fit. Advice much appreciated 🙂
 
I was gonna do all of them cause I have something to say for all of them... but I definitely will not be writing 500 words for all of them. Maybe a few sentences.
 
Buskutsustah said:
Question about MD/MPH program. I was originally planning on applying straight MD although I have interest and experience in public health. But I'm worried that my stats are slightly lower than the average: MCAT 30 (09PS/10VR/11BS) and cGPA 3.66, sGPA of 3.46 but with very strong upward trend; sGPA for sophomore year and beyond, during which time I took most of my science courses, is 3.87. ECs and LORs are both excellent though, plus I am a Spanish-speaker (although not URM) and a demonstrated interest in international medicine and serving underserved Latino populations. Also LGBT for what it's worth, although I'm not sure they will care about that.

So my question is, does it help to apply MD/MPH if your stats are slightly lower than the average, or is that program even more competitive than the regular MD program in terms of stats? I'd be happy with either program--I just really want to go to UM because I think it'd be a great fit. Advice much appreciated 🙂
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I don't know which is more competitive. There are less MD/MPH spots but also less applicants. But it definitely can't hurt you to apply to MD/MPH. It doesn't affect your MD chances and it doesn't cost anything extra. Just a couple extra essays. But make sure you actually want to do a combined 4 year MD/MPH. It is more intensive and you will be having additional classes and projects than if you were just doing MD.
 
Buskutsustah said:
Question about MD/MPH program. I was originally planning on applying straight MD although I have interest and experience in public health. But I'm worried that my stats are slightly lower than the average: MCAT 30 (09PS/10VR/11BS) and cGPA 3.66, sGPA of 3.46 but with very strong upward trend; sGPA for sophomore year and beyond, during which time I took most of my science courses, is 3.87. ECs and LORs are both excellent though, plus I am a Spanish-speaker (although not URM) and a demonstrated interest in international medicine and serving underserved Latino populations. Also LGBT for what it's worth, although I'm not sure they will care about that.

So my question is, does it help to apply MD/MPH if your stats are slightly lower than the average, or is that program even more competitive than the regular MD program in terms of stats? I'd be happy with either program--I just really want to go to UM because I think it'd be a great fit. Advice much appreciated 🙂
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Crazy our applications are fairly similar. I'm also applying MD/PhD at Miami.
 
Buskutsustah said:
Question about MD/MPH program. I was originally planning on applying straight MD although I have interest and experience in public health. But I'm worried that my stats are slightly lower than the average: MCAT 30 (09PS/10VR/11BS) and cGPA 3.66, sGPA of 3.46 but with very strong upward trend; sGPA for sophomore year and beyond, during which time I took most of my science courses, is 3.87. ECs and LORs are both excellent though, plus I am a Spanish-speaker (although not URM) and a demonstrated interest in international medicine and serving underserved Latino populations. Also LGBT for what it's worth, although I'm not sure they will care about that.

So my question is, does it help to apply MD/MPH if your stats are slightly lower than the average, or is that program even more competitive than the regular MD program in terms of stats? I'd be happy with either program--I just really want to go to UM because I think it'd be a great fit. Advice much appreciated 🙂
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Yes the MD/MPH program is less competitive.
-Current MD student
 
I sent my photograph on 7/18, and sent it to the other email that people were mentioning on 7/24--still haven't been marked as received. You guys think I should call?
 
@BeancheBlanco @accmd @Bbroush

Thank you very much for the advice. I'll definitely consider applying to the MD/MPH program judging from what you've said.

Actually, if I had to choose between MD/MPH and MD/PhD, I'd definitely choose MD/PhD because I plan to do a significant amount of research as a doctor and have a lot of research experience. But I figured that a 30 MCAT wouldn't be high enough for MD/PhD. Is this the case?
 
And thanks for the warning about the committment--since I was considering MD/PhD at one point I'm not too worried about the extra year I would spend in MD/MPH either. In my mind it would be well worth the effort 🙂 I just didn't consider applying before because I incorrectly assumed that you needed higher stats than average MD for MD/MPH.
 
Buskutsustah said:
And thanks for the warning about the committment--since I was considering MD/PhD at one point I'm not too worried about the extra year I would spend in MD/MPH either. In my mind it would be well worth the effort 🙂 I just didn't consider applying before because I incorrectly assumed that you needed higher stats than average MD for MD/MPH.
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The MD/MPH program at Miami is four years so the extra commitment is in the form of more classes,higher workload,etc.
 
My status changed to this this morning:
Your Application has been reviewed by the Admissions Committee at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Applicants will be invited to interview based upon their point total from the Committee review. Applications that have been reviewed and scored by the Committee will be considered for interviews during the entire interview cycle (September - April).
 
The new humanities requirement sucks :-\. I've taken a lot of courses in our 'Honors' department that discusses issues such as race/religion/politics and some classes that have gone in depth into healthcare, ethics, etc. Do these count>??

Want to make sure before I submit my application and ofcourse the money
 
can clinical experience be a personal clinical experience? like my own surgery?
 
teefero said:
can clinical experience be a personal clinical experience? like my own surgery?
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I've had to take a significant amount of time off from school for medical treatment, and I listed it and briefly detailed what I learned from it and how it was similar to my more conventional clinical experience. I guess it depends on how involved your surgery was, I don't think it hurts to add it if you can justify it but it won't carry nearly enough weight without a significant amount of other clinical exposure.
 
BioEngMD said:
I've had to take a significant amount of time off from school for medical treatment, and I listed it and briefly detailed what I learned from it and how it was similar to my more conventional clinical experience. I guess it depends on how involved your surgery was, I don't think it hurts to add it if you can justify it but it won't carry nearly enough weight without a significant amount of other clinical exposure.
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I see what you mean. Thanks for sharing!!
 
Still no status change. I've been complete just over a week, so hopefully soon... :/
 
@teefero, I think they are referring to clinical volunteering/clinical research/shadowing experiences but you could drop a line about your surgery if it had a serious impact on your decision to become a doctor.
 
How long does it take your photo do be marked received? I got an email confirmation that they received it a week ago, but online it still says its missing...
 
Another question about MD/MPH. How much public health experience do most competitive applicants have? I worked two years full-time at a public health firm doing social security disability policy research, science/math education research, and nutrition policy research and now volunteer at planned parenthood as a recovery room volunteer, and part of my job is educating patients about sexual health. I've been at PP for about a year now, once/week 8 hours. Thanks!
 
Sorry to troll this thread BTW--if anybody has a response to my question, please PM me--thanks again!
 
Buskutsustah said:
Another question about MD/MPH. How much public health experience do most competitive applicants have? I worked two years full-time at a public health firm doing social security disability policy research, science/math education research, and nutrition policy research and now volunteer at planned parenthood as a recovery room volunteer, and part of my job is educating patients about sexual health. I've been at PP for about a year now, once/week 8 hours. Thanks!
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I know someone who's in the MD/MPH program there and you for sure have way more than him.
 
How long did it for you guys to get secondaries after your AMCAS was verified? I got an email from them saying they received my AMCAS on 7/11 but still no secondary.. ):
 
Finally submitted!! So friggan hard....took me 2 weeks.

Also they never confirmed receiving my photogrpah, so i just sent them my photo again. Will that delay my secondary?
 
bear2roo said:
Finally submitted!! So friggan hard....took me 2 weeks.

Also they never confirmed receiving my photogrpah, so i just sent them my photo again. Will that delay my secondary?
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It takes a while. They emailed me on 7/20 confirming they received it (about a week after I sent it). But it didn't update. So last week I resent it to the second email address listed (one is on the secondary website the other is in the secondary application) and today it was complete.
 
I just realized I forgot to put short descriptions after my chronological activities, do you guys think my app is sunk? Lol : /
 
FutureFACS said:
I just realized I forgot to put short descriptions after my chronological activities, do you guys think my app is sunk? Lol : /
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It only asked for a list, so I only gave a list without descriptions. Plus, descriptions should be in the amcas application, so I think we're fine 🙂
 
Did a lot of people answer the optional prompts? My responses to those were much shorter than the required ones. My sports and fine arts ones were 100-160 and my hobbies one was just over 200. Do you think that is okay?
 
Yeah my descriptions for most of the optional prompts are around the same length!
 
For the brief description with each activity, is one to two sentences what they're looking for you guys think?
 
npkaratekid11 said:
For the brief description with each activity, is one to two sentences what they're looking for you guys think?
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I think people discussed previously on this thread that their idea of brief was a few words to a full sentence, but nothing really more than that
 
For the descriptions in the optional essays, are you all giving strict "descriptions" or also delving into the importance or meaning behind the experiences (e.g. answering "why" a certain travel experience was the most memorable, not just stating what you did)?
 
I realize it's early in the process, but anyone know if Miller is receptive to 'in the area' emails?
 
Rando73493 said:
I realize it's early in the process, but anyone know if Miller is receptive to 'in the area' emails?
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What do you consider in the area? Aren't the only area schools FL schools that are not super receptive to OOS applicants?
 
In the area for a trip not related to interviews. Area just meaning Florida in general and I'll be traveling from the opposite end of the country
 
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