Did/does anyone happen to go to Northeastern University for UG?

[ChrisMack390]

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I am just wondering how NEU students input their grades into AMCAS. I reached out to our pre-med advisor, who told me that she is not an expert on application services and I would need to research this myself.

Since I, like most at NEU, did my undergrad over the course of 5 years with coops and summer courses mixed in, I am not sure how best to characterize my grades as freshman/sophomore/junior/senior.

Freshman and sophomore are normal - 2 semesters each with ~18 credits/semester. After that it gets increasingly dicey. I took 2 summer classes right after my sophomore year, then went on a coop at a biotech from July through December. Then I took a full course load in Spring of my third year and went back on my second coop all summer. After that coop I did a study abroad, and came back for spring semester of my 4th year. I then took 1 more summer course followed by 2 senior year semesters with 3 classes per semester.

NEU has a pretty strong pre-med program, so I'd imagine some adcoms are familiar, and obviously I will mention this in any secondary that gives me space to do so. Are there any other students from NEU or other schools with similar programs?

 

[readysetletsgo]

I go there and am curious to hear the answer to this as well..

 

[efle]

There should be an outline for determining your "year" based on credits rather than timeline. For example when registering for classes at Wustl, iirc a Junior is someone with 60-90 completed credits, Senior 90 or more credits. You can use that to draw lines.

 

[ChrisMack390]

@efle do you mean provided by AMCAS or by NEU? I do not think NEU has this, as they just call it "middler" year in between soph and junior.

 

[efle]

@efle do you mean provided by AMCAS or by NEU? I do not think NEU has this, as they just call it "middler" year in between soph and junior.

I meant provided by NEU, all I see from AMCAS is that "each undergraduate status should be in the range of about 27-35 semester hours", whatever that means.

I'm surprised there isn't already a protocol for this at your advising office. But there may not be as many NEU premeds as you think, since they didn't even show up in my chart of substantially premed-populated undergrads

 

[ChrisMack390]

Our advisors (in general not only premed) are notoriously horrible. I loved my time at NEU but god was anything to do with the administration terrible.

 

[ReggieNoble22]

I plan on picking my school year based on the credits (~36-44 credits a year).

Freshman Year = Fall 2009 (18), Spring 2010 (18)
Sophmore Year = Fall 2010 (18), Spring 2011 (Co-Op 0), Summer 1 2011 (Co-Op 0), Fall 2011 (18)
Junior Year = Spring 2012 (Co-Op 0), Summer 1 2012 (Co-Op 0), Summer 2 2012 (8), Fall 2012 (18), Spring 2013 (Co-Op 0), Summer 1 2013 (Co-Op 0), Summer 2 2013 (8)
Senior Year = Fall 2013 (18), Spring 2014 (18)

Makes Junior year look impossibly long on paper but I think its apparent that you are sorting by credits and not year

Edit: Are you talking about DO applications with designating the academic year? Because I don't see anything on AMCAS to designate and now I'm worried I'm missing something

 

[ChrisMack390]

To be honest I'm applying next year, not this year. I was under the impression that AMCAS makes you sort by year in terms of fresh/soph/jr/senior. Is that not the case?

I was just trying to figure out my year to year GPAs. My overall is only 3.44 but my fresh and soph years I had a 3.0 and 2.8, then later on almost every semester was 3.7+, including some 4.0s my senior year. Hopefully I can claim an upward trend and mitigate some of that 🙂

 

[efle]

To be honest I'm applying next year, not this year. I was under the impression that AMCAS makes you sort by year in terms of fresh/soph/jr/senior. Is that not the case?

I was just trying to figure out my year to year GPAs. My overall is only 3.44 but my fresh and soph years I had a 3.0 and 3.8, then later on almost every semester was 3.7+, including some 4.0s my senior year. Hopefully I can claim an upward trend and mitigate some of that 🙂

Do you have an MCAT percentile yet? GPA numbers alone are nearly worthless.

 

[ChrisMack390]

Not yet - September 12th is the big day.

Note that I made a typo above. I had a 2.8 sophomore year. That was a huge wake up call and I shaped up after.

 

[efle]

Not yet - September 12th is the big day.

Note that I made a typo above. I had a 2.8 sophomore year. That was a huge wake up call and I shaped up after.

Hope you kill it, it's going to be extra important for your app! You should also bump thread down the road once you've gotten this issue answered

 

[ChrisMack390]

Yup. I have really good ECs, a publication, lots of biotech + clinical research experience, and will have a masters in biology, so I think the MCAT is really going to make or break what could be a very competitive application. Fingers crossed.

I will bump when I resolve this issue for sure.