four quick questions

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1) If I'm interested in financial aid, and feel as though my income might not suffice to adequately pay for when and if I'm accepted, should I label myself as a disadvantaged student? What exactly are the qualifications for being a disadvantaged student?

2) When entering course work material, do classes with discussions count as "Combined lecture and labs?"

3) Where do we indicate High School GPA?

4) Also, under course work, do we have to enter a grade for AP classes?

 

[ksmi117]

1) If I'm interested in financial aid, and feel as though my income might not suffice to adequately pay for when and if I'm accepted, should I label myself as a disadvantaged student? What exactly are the qualifications for being a disadvantaged student?

2) When entering course work material, do classes with discussions count as "Combined lecture and labs?"

3) Where do we indicate High School GPA?

4) Also, under course work, do we have to enter a grade for AP classes?

1. idk, I'll let someone else answer that

2. No

3. You don't

4. Put whatever it says on your transcript, AMCAS will fix it if they want to.

 

[Stixman28]

I assume your asking about AMCAS...but seriously? High school GPA? cmon.

 

[mvenus929]

1) If I'm interested in financial aid, and feel as though my income might not suffice to adequately pay for when and if I'm accepted, should I label myself as a disadvantaged student? What exactly are the qualifications for being a disadvantaged student?

2) When entering course work material, do classes with discussions count as "Combined lecture and labs?"

3) Where do we indicate High School GPA?

4) Also, under course work, do we have to enter a grade for AP classes?

1. Very, very few people can afford to pay for medical school out of pocket. The inability to do so does not make you disadvantaged. Being disadvantaged means that something happened in your life that greatly hindered your ability to make it this far in school. For instance, you went to an inner-city school, living on the poverty line, and had to pay your own way through college.

2. No. A lab is in a laboratory doing something tangentally related to the lecture. Gen chem lab and gen bio lab are examples. They are only 'combined lecture and lab' if you didn't get a separate grade for the lab portion.

3. Nowhere. Med schools don't care about your high school GPA.

4. If your college gave you credit for AP classes, you have to put them under course work. If they gave you a grade, put that grade. Otherwise, put 'G'.

 

[LizzyM]

Disadvantaged is not related to whether you have the $ to pay for med school. It has to do with your up-bringing from 0-18 years of age. Did you go to underperforming schools, live in a poor community without access to primary care providers, depend on government subsidies for housing, food, school lunches, health care, & work before age 18 to help your family survive? Was your growing-up situation one of "low income"?

Applying "disadvantaged" if you aren't really disadvantaged can create a disadvantage for you.

 

[LAman10]

Applying "disadvantaged" if you aren't really disadvantaged can create a disadvantage for you.

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