3.75cGPA, 3.6sGPA, 27MCAT

[futuredoctor43]

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3.75 cGPA
3.6 sGPA
27 MCAT (10/8/9)

Tons of ECs
Undergrad research for 2 years
Extensive community service/leadership activities

Graduating this May

Looking at post-baccs/SMPs - already applied to BU MAMS, UCinn SMP, Gtown CAM

Advice on gap year programs? What are my chances?

 

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3.75 cGPA
3.6 sGPA
27 MCAT (10/8/9)

Tons of ECs
Undergrad research for 2 years
Extensive community service/leadership activities

Graduating this May

Looking at post-baccs/SMPs - already applied to BU MAMS, UCinn SMP, Gtown CAM

Advice on gap year programs? What are my chances?

SMP is a waste of time..... designed for low GPA/high MCAT.... not the reverse.

Spending $50k on an SMP doesn't fix what a $1500-2000 MCAT prep class does.

*edit - didnt see the other duplicate thread before I posted this; my bad

 

[type12]

SMP is a waste of time..... designed for low GPA/high MCAT.... not the reverse.

You think so? I thought it applies to anyone, since you are showing you can ace med school courses.

I am genuinely asking, lol.

 

[DrMidlife]

You think so? I thought it applies to anyone, since you are showing you can ace med school courses.

I am genuinely asking, lol.

An SMP is a tool to partially overcome transcript shortcomings that prevent you from confidently claiming you'll survive the coursework in med school.

An SMP does little-to-nothing to show that you can do well on an hours-long test covering multiple years of heavy science coursework. That's what the MCAT is, and that's what the board exams in med school are. You might take a shelf exam in an SMP, which helps. But it makes no sense at all to leave your MCAT score low when you have the option to work towards a better score. Just do it.

You can find a bunch of anecdotes from people around here who defiantly didn't retake a 28 or a 26 and still got into med school. Dig deeper. You never see these folks come back and report that they did well enough on boards to get a competitive residency. Usually it turns out these folks are from a state with really low admissions requirements for instate, or these folks got into a new DO school, or they are from an underrepresented demographic. Or they did an SMP that has since changed, and the host school no longer takes bunches of its SMP's grads.

Fundamentally, it's a lazy entitled rich kid move to do an SMP instead of buckling down to get a decent MCAT score. Be the adult in charge. Like a doctor.

Best of luck to you.