Barron's Profiles of American Colleges

[LegendaryTucker]

Hello all,

According to this VIDEO (2:30), most med schools multiply our GPA by a correction factor. It seems like a highly competitve school is X15 and a competitve school is X3. That's a HUGE difference.

According to Barron's Profiles of American Colleges, my school is ranked as "competitve +" whatever that means 😀

What do you think?

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[spartan25]

So according to @ 1:20 if I have a GPA above 3.8 then my chance of acceptance is 100%?!? Well awesome!! I don't know why I was bothering with all these ECs, research, and MCAT stuff...

 

[spartan25]

In all seriousness, the fact that a professional speaker uses the phrase "MCAT's" is a good indication to not listen to any advice he has to say about medical school admissions

 

[Cell-R]

In all seriousness, the fact that a professional speaker uses the phrase "MCAT's" is a good indication to not listen to any advice he has to say about medical school admissions

The "professional speaker" in this video is Dean Richard Weisman, the Associate Dean for Admissions at Miami Miller SOM. If there is anyone worth listening to, I would listen to him.

 

[spartan25]

The "professional speaker" in this video is Dean Richard Weisman, the Associate Dean for Admissions at Miami Miller SOM. If there is anyone worth listening to, I would listen to him.

Hmm, sorry I didn't see that. Well I retract my previous statement.

 

[LegendaryTucker]

I agree with Cell-R. I liked all his videos and all the videos from UCD pre-health, they are very interesting and helpful.

 

[Cell-R]

@spartan25 But, "MCAT's" does bug me a little bit!

 

[occams_razor]

Hello all,

According to this VIDEO (2:30), most med schools multiply our GPA by a correction factor. It seems like a highly competitve school is X15 and a competitve school is X3. That's a HUGE difference.

According to Barron's Profiles of American Colleges, my school is ranked as "competitve +" whatever that means 😀

What do you think?

hmm he also says the Verbal Reasoning is the most important score

 

[gyngyn]

@spartan25 But, "MCAT's" does bug me a little bit!

Given the number of applicant re-takes, maybe he is closer to being right than we are!

 

[Ace Khalifa]

I recently interviewed at UMiami, and Dean Weisman definitely knows what he's talking about.

 

[Lamel]

*15 vs. *3 is, uh...quite a stark difference.

But if you listened carefully, he never said that those numbers were the correction factor. It just listed "points", so they could simply be added instead of multiplied.


Edit: after going through some of the video, the points are added, not multiplied. So a top ranked school will give you 30 points, while a low ranked will give you 3 points, and a middle rank will get you 15.

These points are out of 300 total.

GPA= 3-30 pts
MCAT = 0-45 pts
School Quality = 3-30 points.

The rest come from activities and experiences...really interesting.

Btw this is 29:25 of the video if you're interested.

 

[Narmerguy]

At the end of the day he can only speak authoritatively for one medical school, though I'm sure there are other schools that employ similar methods. But the belief that there's one approach for med admissions used by all schools is unfortunately mistaken. Different schools handle things differently, thus why you see some places that screen heavily pre-secondary, or screen heavily pre-interview, or that seem to favor people with crazy stats, etc. Schools likely handle undergraduate institution differently, with some caring much more than others.

 

[referee3]

I know RWJMS uses something similar. They score applicants from 1-5 on five categories (MCAT, GPA, clinical experience, EC's/research and interview). Applicants need a certain score to be invited for an interview. As far as I know they do not calculate undergrad school into this though.