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Their servers seems to be down right now but I saw on the website that they had a one year masters of public health with a med school offer after completion based on GPA and mcat score. If you search "meharry masters" on sdn info about it pops up in other threads.
In previous years Meharry's program was by invitation only and you would've had to apply to the MD program to even be considered. :S
Hmmm...... I have no clue where you are getting your cutoffs from, but I know from personal experience that those are NOT the cutoffs for most schools. If they were, I would not have received 13 Interview invitations and 5 acceptances already (and I'm waiting to hear back from the other 8 schools that I interviewed at). If you take a good look at the MSAR, it lists the average MCAT and GPAs for accepted students, as well as the top/bottom 10% MCAT & GPA for accepted students. Many schools do not even have an average MCAT as high as 510.
510 cutoff? LMAOOOO. Misinformation city, do you really think schools only consider 18% of the people that took the MCAT?
Only in my dreams... it was magical 😉
I'm doing reinvention with a sub 510 MCAT and have gotten nibbles from schools so I also don't think those numbers apply to URM. A friend of mine got into an OOS MD program with a similar MCAT to mine (also doing reinvention). If I weren't international I'm nearly 100% certain I would have been accepted to an MD program already.
Best of luck to you!
I too have almost turned to the caribbean on multiple occasions, but trust me, it's better to take a year improving your app than to be unable to match after and saddled with 200k debt.
*sigh*, one last chance to prevent you from making a bigass mistake with your career.
r, Yes, it IS that bad. You are exactly the desperate, lazy, gullible mark that their business model is based upon.
*sigh*, one last chance to prevent you from making a bigass mistake with your career.
FROM the wise GYNGYN:
"The pool of US applicants from the Caribbean is viewed differently by Program Directors. The DDx for a Caribbean grad is pretty off-putting: bad judgment, bad advice, egotism, gullibility, overbearing parents, inability to delay gratification, IA's, legal problems, weak research skills, high risk behavior. This is not to say that all of them still have the quality that drew them into this situation. There is just no way to know which ones they are. Some PD's are in a position where they need to, or can afford to take risks too! So, some do get interviews.
Bad grades and scores are the least of the deficits from a PD's standpoint. A strong academic showing in a Caribbean medical school does not erase this stigma. It fact it increases the perception that the reason for the choice was on the above-mentioned list!
Just about everyone from a Caribbean school has one or more of these problems and PDs know it. That's why their grads are the last choice even with a high Step 1 score."
There was a time when folks whose only flaw was being a late bloomer went Carib, but those days are gone. There are a number of US med schools that will reward reinvention.
It's likely you'll be in the bottom half or two thirds of the class that gets dismissed before Step 1. The business plan of a Carib school depends on the majority of the class not needing to be supported in clinical rotations. They literally can't place all 250+ of the starting class at clinical sites (educational malpractice, really. If this happened at a US school, they be shut down by LCME or COCA, and sued.
The Carib (and other offshore) schools have very tenuous, very expensive, very controversial relationships with a very small number of US clinical sites. You may think you can just ask to do your clinical rotations at a site near home. Nope. You may think you don't have to worry about this stuff. Wrong.
And let's say you get through med school in the Carib and get what you need out of the various clinical rotation scenarios. Then you are in the match gamble. I don't need to say a word about this - you can find everything you need to know at nrmp.org.
You really need to talk to people who made it through Carib threshing machine (like Skip Intro or mikkus) into residency, and hear the story from them. How many people were in their class at the start, how many are in it now? How long did it take to get a residency, and how did they handle the gap year(s) and their student loans? How many residencies did they apply to, how many interviews did they get, and were any of the programs on their match list anything like what they wanted?
A little light reading:
Million $ Mistake
Medical School at SGU
"Why didn't I Match?"
tl
Azolesoul, the reason I am giving you a dope slap is because you post stuff like this:
Take a deep breath.
OK, I'm just a stranger on the Internet, but I'm going to throw in my two cents.
Just to toss in my two cents worth. I have a few friends that did caribbean and one has matched into neurology but it seems to be not the best program from what I can tell...
