MU.. Short, sweet and right to the point.

[poppie910]

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Hey guys, I was just perusing mu's website and it says their acceptance criteria for academics is a MINIMUM 3.2 sgpa and a 24 mcat (a 24???).. and yet they are considered a top ten med school... what's up with that?

 

[saveourpens]

What school is MU? Either way any application that is sent with those minimum stats to very competitive schools (or any MD program for that matter) is going straight to the trash...unless that there's a Nobel in the activities section.

 

[scarshapedstar]

 

[music2doc]

What school is MU? Either way any application that is sent with those minimum stats to very competitive schools (or any MD program for that matter) is going straight to the trash...unless that there's a Nobel in the activities section.

👍

They set the numbers low to maximize the number of applicants and to basically say, "The numbers aren't all that matters." But as was mentioned above, you would need a Nobel prize AND URM status to be considered with a 3.2/24 at pretty much any MD school.

 

[poppie910]

Well it just kinda baffled me because I've looked at alot of other campus websites and none of them had numbers that low for admissions requirements. I guess it was a stupid question but I just wanted to hear from you guys.. MU=Michigan University

 

[UnclePhil]

That's a little confusing, you should really call it UM or Michigan.

And LOL at thinking that you would actually get accepted with those stats. Schools are not just looking to fill their seats, they're looking to fill their seats with people they want from a giant pool of applicants. How competitive your stats are are relative to the rest of the applicants.

 

[PantherPride]

Isn't the "ranking" just based on the amount of funding the school gets, anyway?

 

[poppie910]

I fully realize that your numbers need to be higher than that. I just found it interesting that they would even consider someone w numbers like that. The EC's would have to be out of this world! But the university of Michigan's abbrev is MU, can't help it. I realize I said it backwards, sorry.. tough crowd! Lol

 

[theseeker4]

Isn't the "ranking" just based on the amount of funding the school gets, anyway?

Research funding in particular, yes. That doesn't mean that tons of students who are concerned with prestige don't use the rankings to determine what the best school to attend is. Likewise, the more prestigious the school, the better the applicants that apply there (or at least more great applicants apply there than other schools) so the school is assumed to have the cream-of-the-crop medical students by residency programs. This makes some of them give preference to students from the top schools, especially for the most-competitive residency programs. Having connections to a top-ranked school can also help you get a prime job after residency training, thanks to who you know.

Bottom line is, going to a top-rank school will widen a few doors for you in your future career, especially if you are set on academic medicine, but any MD school in the US will give you a quality education.

 

[theseeker4]

I fully realize that your numbers need to be higher than that. I just found it interesting that they would even consider someone w numbers like that. The EC's would have to be out of this world! But the university of Michigan's abbrev is MU, can't help it. I realize I said it backwards, sorry.. tough crowd! Lol

LOL, how many schools' names start with the letter M? See the cause of confusion? 😉

 

[poppie910]

LOL, how many schools' names start with the letter M? See the cause of confusion? 😉

Definitely see how one would be confused by that. I feel like a **** for posting this thread. Oh well, moving on! 🙂

 

[DrBowtie]

OP clearly doesn't follow sports.

 

[NickNaylor]

OP clearly doesn't follow sports.

Indeed. I've never heard of Michigan being called "Michigan University," sports or otherwise.

 

[poppie910]

Univ of Michigan. I already revised my error in a previous post. But I digress...

 

[kpcrew]

OP clearly doesn't follow sports.

I've always heard it as u mich

 

[BHaus9]

I've always heard it as u mich

I thought it was just the "axis of evil."

 

[music2doc]

I've always heard it as u mich

Same here. I figured based on the post that "MU" was probably supposed to be UMich, but it could be any number of other schools. MU, if anything, would probably be most reasonably assumed to be Mizzou (U of Missouri), since they actually use "MU" for their logo and Mizzou is pronounced similarly....

 

[Dreamer29]

In MI, we call it "U of M," "UMich," or just Michigan

 

[eHombre]

If anything, MU = Miami University (Ohio)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_University

 

[Knocked Up]

Hey guys, I was just perusing mu's website and it says their acceptance criteria for academics is a MINIMUM 3.2 sgpa and a 24 mcat (a 24???).. and yet they are considered a top ten med school... what's up with that?

Umich? 24? 🤣

You kidding me?

 

[Whatyousay]

OP, apply to Michigan with a 24 and let us know how it turns out for you.

 

[flatearth22]

In MI, we call it "U of M," "UMich," or just Michigan

More like scUM

 

[GeauxTime]

U of M

 

[eHombre]

Hey guys, I was just perusing UMich's website and it says their acceptance criteria for academics is a MINIMUM 3.2 sgpa and a 24 mcat (a 24???).. and yet they are considered a top ten med school... what's up with that?

Look, this isn't too hard to understand. Many schools are loathe to publish absolute minimum cutoffs for fear of missing that "diamond in the rough". If a school does publish a cutoff, it's going to set it sufficiently low that it'll cast a wide net.

Does that mean you'd be likely to get in at UMich with a 24 or a 3.2? Of course not. It only means that the adcom would glance over your application on its way to the recycling bin rather than discarding it outright.

 

[EpicBearMan]

If anything, MU = Miami University (Ohio)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_University

Hmm, the University of Missouri is commonly known as MU or Mizzou.

http://medicine.missouri.edu/

 

[poppie910]

OP, apply to Michigan with a 24 and let us know how it turns out for you.

I was hopeful this thread would've died by now. Im not so naive as to believe a 24 would get me into ANY school, much less Michigan. I just havent seen numbers that low on any other campus websites so I was just surprised by it, that's all... I understand the "diamond in the rough" theory/idea, however.

 

[scarshapedstar]

I was hopeful this thread would've died by now.

Shouldn't have said that... bump! 😎

 

[1TB4RKSB4CK]

So they can get yo app money.

 

[kpcrew]

I was hopeful this thread would've died by now. Im not so naive as to believe a 24 would get me into ANY school, much less Michigan. I just havent seen numbers that low on any other campus websites so I was just surprised by it, that's all... I understand the "diamond in the rough" theory/idea, however.

There's about 2000 people who got in with an MCAT score that was less than 24.