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Canadian applicant to american schools with a 511 MCAT, 3.83GPA, and lots of research experience including a publication. Thoughts on my chances?
There are about a dozen US MD schools that consider Canadians and match your stats (if that is your only MCAT).
There are also about a dozen DO schools that consider internationals.
Filter the MSAR for the 71 schools that consider Canadians.Thank you! If you could provide the names of some of those MD schools, I would appreciate it.
Also, you you think having a publication gives a decent boost to an application? I assume this would be school specific (e.g. research focused).
Filter the MSAR for the 71 schools that consider Canadians.
Eliminate the ones that matriculated zero to three.
Of the remaining, apply to ones with a median MCAT at or slightly below yours.
All schools value research.
Be sure to have clinical and volunteer experience too.
The mean MCAT for successful internationals is 512.
Yes.That's encouraging, thank you. Objectively I think the MCAT score is the weakest part of my application. I have several long term well-rounded ECs, a lot of research, and a consistently upward GPA trend with 4.0 in my final year. Do schools take this into consideration?
MD is hard for Canadians. Are you URM? Apply broadly.
Also apply to DO schools. You'll get an acceptance. I cant guarantee this for MD.
Yes.