Medical School Application Questions

[loslakers]

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Hi everyone, so i have a few general questions about applying to medical school:

1. i just recently graduated from UCLA (spring of 2016), but i was a transfer student. so i took a large amount of prereqs at my CC (gen chem, physics, ochem) i still took a large amount of bio/biochem/ physio at UCLA but will medical schools not like that ive taken a lot of their requirements at a CC?

2. how important is applying early? i know that generally people want to start applying beginning of june, but would it be bad if i didnt have my applications ready until say mid-july?

3. my stats are 3.69 cGPA, sGPA (3.65), female, vietnamese, CA resident, 100 hours of shadowing, 450+ hours clinical experience (multiple hospital internships), current behavioral therapist with austitic children, research for 1 quarter (trying to get into another lab to get more hours/experience). i would really like to get into UCI or UC Davis. what mcat score should I be aiming for? (im currently studying and scheduled to take it on march 31st? also would it be worth it to take another summer class to raise my gpa to a 3.70?

thanks for your help everyone!

 

[Lannister]

1. Purchase the MSAR. It'll tell you which schools accept CC credit.
2. Mid-July is fine.
3. Purchase the MSAR.

 

[WedgeDawg]

Hi everyone, so i have a few general questions about applying to medical school:

1. i just recently graduated from UCLA (spring of 2016), but i was a transfer student. so i took a large amount of prereqs at my CC (gen chem, physics, ochem) i still took a large amount of bio/biochem/ physio at UCLA but will medical schools not like that ive taken a lot of their requirements at a CC?

2. how important is applying early? i know that generally people want to start applying beginning of june, but would it be bad if i didnt have my applications ready until say mid-july?

3. my stats are 3.69 cGPA, sGPA (3.65), female, vietnamese, CA resident, 100 hours of shadowing, 450+ hours clinical experience (multiple hospital internships), current behavioral therapist with austitic children, research for 1 quarter (trying to get into another lab to get more hours/experience). i would really like to get into UCI or UC Davis. what mcat score should I be aiming for? (im currently studying and scheduled to take it on march 31st? also would it be worth it to take another summer class to raise my gpa to a 3.70?

thanks for your help everyone!

As noted by Lannister above,

1. MSAR will give you a breakdown for each school on whether or not they take CC credits or not

2. It's quite important. Ideally you want to be submitted and approved by AMCAS before June is over (because secondaries come out first week of July) but mid-July isn't bad.

3. As high of an MCAT score as you can. A 513+ will probably make you competitive applicant for UCI and UCD stats-wise, but obviously the higher the better. CA has a lot of applicants fighting for a few seats so whatever you can do to make yourself more competitive is good. But don't take another class to go from 3.69-3.7. It would be meaningless.

 

[loslakers]

thank you for the quick reply guys! i really appreciate it. I also had another question... a couple of my friends in medical school mentioned that it was reccommended that i have LORs from a science prof , extracurriclur, and social science prof. is this true? if i didnt have a social science prof LOR would that be bad?

 

[protego]

thank you for the quick reply guys! i really appreciate it. I also had another question... a couple of my friends in medical school mentioned that it was reccommended that i have LORs from a science prof , extracurriclur, and social science prof. is this true? if i didnt have a social science prof LOR would that be bad?

Extracurricular LOR is not necessary but some schools do require a humanities LOR. Not all though, you'll want to check school specific requirements.


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[Lannister]

thank you for the quick reply guys! i really appreciate it. I also had another question... a couple of my friends in medical school mentioned that it was reccommended that i have LORs from a science prof , extracurriclur, and social science prof. is this true? if i didnt have a social science prof LOR would that be bad?

I think it's pretty typical to need two science LORs and a humanities LOR. You don't need a social science LOR.


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