Is this it?

[wlee43]

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Good grades+Good LOR+Good MCAT+Good EC= Med school acceptance?

 

[RogueUnicorn]

yea

 

[WeAreNotRobots]

what is good?

 

[eldoctor]

Good grades+Good LOR+Good MCAT+Good EC= Med school acceptance?

maybe. Are you a craigslist murderer? Do you like climbing down chimneys?

 

[Iso4ane]

Good grades+Good LOR+Good MCAT+Good EC= Med school acceptance?

Not quite

Good grades+Good LOR+Good MCAT+Good EC+Good Interview (which .5 Confidence [you don't want to be too confident] + Being articulate about yourself and your experiences)-(Being a pretentious/cocky attitude)+ X-factor = Some Value

X-Factor includes: Legacy Student, URM (like Native American), college athlete, etc.

If and only if Your Some value is among the top (how many seats there are in the class) will that equal a Med school acceptance

 

[RogueUnicorn]

maybe. Are you a craigslist murderer? Do you like climbing down chimneys?

note they both still got into med school.

 

[wlee43]

3.7+ , 4+ good letters, 30+ on MCAT, 2 years research, 400+ hrs. clinical volunteering, 100+ hrs. volunteering, 3 clubs for 3 years, leadership awards, 20+ hrs. shadowing, 3 sports as hobbies, Honors in college

 

[eldoctor]

note they both still got into med school.

Touche good sir. I gave future adcoms too much credit.

 

[eldoctor]

3.7+ , 4+ good letters, 30+ on MCAT, 2 years research, 400+ hrs. clinical volunteering, 100+ hrs. volunteering, 3 clubs for 3 years, leadership awards, 20+ hrs. shadowing, 3 sports as hobbies, Honors in college

That puts you at...pretty average around here. Maybe if you figure out how to divide by zero you can have something interesting to talk about. Is there anything you think makes you unique?

 

[wlee43]

Isn't being average here good enough? Also isn't everyone unique in some way anyway

 

[ModernAlchemist]

Thank you for this thread. You have encouraged me to refrain from clicking on the pre-allo forum link. Oh... and people who follow formulas don't get into med school, they do lab research.

 

[CaliGirl14]

You also need the WOW factor...the pazzazz!! Work magic baby!

 

[tweek125]

URM + application = med school acceptance.

 

[PreMedder]

you forgot Good Looks.

 

[Spleenic]

3.7+ , 4+ good letters, 30+ on MCAT, 2 years research, 400+ hrs. clinical volunteering, 100+ hrs. volunteering, 3 clubs for 3 years, leadership awards, 20+ hrs. shadowing, 3 sports as hobbies, Honors in college

What's with the plusses?

 

[BaronVonZ]

The only way to be sure you'll be accepted is to have a 4.0, 45T, many first author publications (nobel prize probably wouldn't hurt), shadowing of every kind. Found an international volunteer coalition of at least 300 people that serves the needy, come from a poor background, be the first from your family to be awarded a high school degree, and be 50% black and 50% native american (more of both if you can manage it). Pick up unique hobbies, like being the last remaining grand master of a 2000-year old style of kung fu, take singing lessons from luciano pavarotti's corpse, punch Kim Jung in in the face. Broker peace in the middle east, make a killing in the stock market and use it to fund your series of low cost public hospitals that you established in undeserved areas in the US and abroad. Be a vigilante road maintenance engineer, secretly filling potholes when others sleep, design a brand new microchip architecture that uses one third the power and produces no measurable heat. Admit to being Banksy. Become a close personal friend with every admissions committee member, and, of course, apply broadly.


You'll be fine!


Edit: Premedder is right: I forgot good looks.

 

[wolverinepwns]

you forgot: being able to interview well.

 

[wristbandMD]

You also need the WOW factor...the pazzazz!! Work magic baby!

Cleavage. I gots it.

 

[CaliGirl14]

Cleavage. I gots it.

You can also have a big junk.

 

[RogueUnicorn]

You can also have a big junk.

no this apparently causes garment issues

 

[roseglass6370]

I'm Banksy.

 

[LizzyM]

URM + application = med school acceptance.

Between 2007 and 2009 there were 6,000+ black applicants whose experience was not "URM + application = acceptance". The acceptance rate for black applicants is < 40%.

I agree that the OP left interview out of the equation and that can be a deal breaker even when everything else is letter perfect.