A Litte Background:
I'm an '08 grad who has...
1) I want my MD (no offense to the DO track)
2) A strong path to Med school. I don't mind a few years as long as I get meaningful and respectable degree(s) out of them. I do love learning!
3) If possible I want my education to allow me to speak with some authority on health/science/research policy/ethics in the far future, possibly in the realm of government and non-profit. I got policy in my veins in student government and would love to fuse it with medicine in the future.
Questions:
1) What respected SMPs don't require MCAT for admission? And am I at a disadvantage submitting my GRE scores? (I'm open to taking the subject-based GREs)
2) Would I do just as well getting my MPH before applying to med school? Are there programs that allow you to take courses in both?
3)This is a long-shot. Could I just re-take my bad courses and apply to medschools myself? Or do I need the guidance of a program to get my application materials together for the first time?
I'm an '08 grad who has...
- not taken the MCATs (didn't think I wanted to go to med school until now!)
- completed all med-school pre-reqs
- 1390 on GREs,5.5 writing
- a very impressive extracurricular involvement and service record
- 3.25 overall GPA in a liberal arts honors program
- 3.0 science GPA - my main downfalls were second semester calc-based physics and biochemistry (I blew them big time but did ok-to-well in everything else)
- over a year of undergrad research including some well respected labs (I thought I was going to take a year off and go to grad school for molecular research)
- (is) currently working at Ohio States Comprehensive Cancer Center as a research assistant.
- just realized that she wants to go to med school!
1) I want my MD (no offense to the DO track)
2) A strong path to Med school. I don't mind a few years as long as I get meaningful and respectable degree(s) out of them. I do love learning!
3) If possible I want my education to allow me to speak with some authority on health/science/research policy/ethics in the far future, possibly in the realm of government and non-profit. I got policy in my veins in student government and would love to fuse it with medicine in the future.
Questions:
1) What respected SMPs don't require MCAT for admission? And am I at a disadvantage submitting my GRE scores? (I'm open to taking the subject-based GREs)
2) Would I do just as well getting my MPH before applying to med school? Are there programs that allow you to take courses in both?
3)This is a long-shot. Could I just re-take my bad courses and apply to medschools myself? Or do I need the guidance of a program to get my application materials together for the first time?