difficulty of admission into Phillippine MD programs

[kellybelly]

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It's hard to get into UP. I got 99 in the NMAT, and have very good grades. I was waitlisted. My heart withered when I saw another guy get in, when his transcript had four failing grades. Oh well....

 

[tantrum]

It's hard to get into UP. I got 99 in the NMAT, and have very good grades. I was waitlisted. My heart withered when I saw another guy get in, when his transcript had four failing grades. Oh well....

It also depends if you are a girl (higher grades due to competition). They dont put much emphasis on NMAT (compared to interviews and grades). Also they have few slots for regional candidates and legacy (children of faculty or alumni). So some who will get in will have lower grades than you (especially males).

 

[mumbly_happy]

kellybelly, pano mo nalaman waitlisted ka? nasa same paper ba yan sa mga natanggap o hiwalay siya? thanks! 🙂

onga, unfair mga guys lower grade requirement, hehe, pis. bakit ba kasi hindi pwedeng damihan yung slots for females...kasi mas marami ding nag aapply na babae...diba? 🙂

 

[kittycrinkles]

there's always been an equal number of males and females in UP Med. i don't know the exact reason why pero kahit sa Intarmed ganun.

perhaps to give equal opportunity to both sexes? we all know that women get better grades usually. there must be some variable that influences that. hehe.

there are also around 10 slots for Regionalization people. they go into a contract that binds them to practice in their region of origin for a certain number of years. around 5 naman for children of the faculty ata. but, there are many children of doctors who are competing for those slots. not all of them can get in.

 

[chocopinipig]

i heard about the male-female ratio sometime ago from an administrator.
Female students tend to get higher grades and therefore MORE get accepted into medicine. The only problem is that a LOT of them tend to back out because of various reasons (pregnancy, marriage, moving with husband to another country, has to take care of children etc...) and therefore to minimize the problem (waste of educating student dropping out) they decided to make sure to get more male students to balance the effect. The easiest way was to generate equal numbers 50% male and 50% female. This was in the past...

Female medical students at present instead, during med school, they get married, get pregnant etc.. and STILL continue on with med school. Times have change. UST for example has more female students now. for those who do get pregnant, they eventually finish a few month behind or even on time for the graduation ceremony.

 

[kittycrinkles]

i heard about the male-female ratio sometime ago from an administrator.
Female students tend to get higher grades and therefore MORE get accepted into medicine. The only problem is that a LOT of them tend to back out because of various reasons (pregnancy, marriage, moving with husband to another country, has to take care of children etc...) and therefore to minimize the problem (waste of educating student dropping out) they decided to make sure to get more male students to balance the effect. The easiest way was to generate equal numbers 50% male and 50% female. This was in the past...

is that the real reason? that was so sexist of them! 👎

come to think of it... i have a female classmate who got married on her 2nd year and gave birth also. she's never taken a leave of absence. yan ang determinado! 👍

 

[mumbly_happy]

wow galing niya! pano niya nabalanse oras niya nun? siguro end of schoolyear pinanganak baby nya 🙂

 

[chocopinipig]

is that the real reason? that was so sexist of them! 👎

come to think of it... i have a female classmate who got married on her 2nd year and gave birth also. she's never taken a leave of absence. yan ang determinado! 👍

i don't think it was really meant to be "sexist". though it sounds that way....
They just didn't want female students dropping out right in the middle of their education or becoming a housewife after medschool. It would be a waste of resources on their part when they could have taught other students who will practice medicine and help others. Of course times have changed. I don't know about UP med but UST no longer generates quota on male/female ratio.
I had a classmate who gave birth while on duty 😀 o di ba? that speaks a lot about the new generation of women. 👍

 

[kittycrinkles]

i don't think it was really meant to be "sexist". though it sounds that way....
They just didn't want female students dropping out right in the middle of their education or becoming a housewife after medschool. It would be a waste of resources on their part when they could have taught other students who will practice medicine and help others. Of course times have changed. I don't know about UP med but UST no longer generates quota on male/female ratio.
I had a classmate who gave birth while on duty 😀 o di ba? that speaks a lot about the new generation of women. 👍

hmmm kung hindi "sexist", perhaps the culture back then was very different? still, i don't think they should have stopped females from going to med school, just because they think she'd eventually drop out bec. of marriage/pregnancy. better assessment of whether she reallys wants the slot or not na lang sana.

about my classmate, she got married summer then gave birth during christmastime. parang na-plano ano? 😀

 

[mumbly_happy]

eksakto nine months! 😀