Getting into Med from Graduate School

[Nautica]

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If I were to get into graduate school and apply, would I be in the same appicant pool with those applying from Undergrad or is it a different pool?
So also, do they take a look at you undergrad GPA at all or its all Grad school stuff? Thanks.

 

[BigRedPremed]

Your graduate GPA will be weighted far less than your undergrad GPA in med school admissions. Everyone knows grad school classes are far more grade inflated than undergrad classes.

 

[SupergreenMnM]

You will be in the same app pool. Your grad and undergrad classes will be counted seperately, for grad they will likely look at your research too.

As for grad grades being inflated compaired to undergrad that is not true, its simply that you fail out if you aren't a B average (99% of grad schools) so the only people left have a B or above. Grad courses (and no, I don't mean the dumbed down one undergrads can attend) are substantially more difficult than undergrad, a good comparision would be high school vs undergrad as far as difficulty changes.

Do you have a grad degree? Or are you simply leaving a grad program?

 

[BigRedPremed]

a good comparision would be high school vs undergrad as far as difficulty changes.

Except most people's GPA's go down from HS to college while most people's GPA's go up from undergrad to grad. Examples abound on this forum. I can't recall a single person whose graduate GPA was lower than their undergraduate GPA (although I'm sure those people exist).

 

[SupergreenMnM]

They do exist, they are called graduate school drop outs 😀
Like I said, just to stay in you need a 3.0 average or above, otherwise.../wave.

 

[Law2Doc]

If I were to get into graduate school and apply, would I be in the same appicant pool with those applying from Undergrad or is it a different pool?
So also, do they take a look at you undergrad GPA at all or its all Grad school stuff? Thanks.

As a prior poster indicated, your undergrad GPA still looms large in this process, and you are in the same applicant pool.

Not all grad school is created equal. From what I have observed, many grad schools have about the same impact on applications as a really good EC. Certain programs, esp brand name SMPs have a decent track record for getting folks into med school, and lots of med schools take notice of recent graduate level success in sciences.

But I wouldn't necessarilly look at grad school as a particularly high yield back route into med school, if that's what you are thinking.

 

[HreComesTheSun]

As a prior poster indicated, your undergrad GPA still looms large in this process, and you are in the same applicant pool.

Not all grad school is created equal. From what I have observed, many grad schools have about the same impact on applications as a really good EC. Certain programs, esp brand name SMPs have a decent track record for getting folks into med school, and lots of med schools take notice of recent graduate level success in sciences.

But I wouldn't necessarilly look at grad school as a particularly high yield back route into med school, if that's what you are thinking.

yes, i know alot of others who are applying from grad school, and the only real difference between us is that i had 30+ mcat while others did not. mcat made all the difference in the world, even though we are getting the same grad degrees