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If you live in these states you're golden:
Alabama 47% matriculate
Kentucky 43%
S Carolina 43%
West Virginia 55%
Imagine how nice it would be to have a 50% shot at admissions ...
If you live in these states you're golden:
Alabama 47% matriculate
Kentucky 43%
S Carolina 43%
West Virginia 55%
Imagine how nice it would be to have a 50% shot at admissions ...
I wonder if the MD physicians 20 years from now who are from significantly easier admission states will remember the leeway they had when they are looking down on the DO physicians who came from California.
There was actually some old physician on here ranting a couple weeks ago how "admission isn't any harder now because there all these new schools coming up" completely ignoring the fact that only 5 MD schools have come out the past 35 years. When someone actually told him that he just went to the default "we'll agree to disagree" and that's else.
There was actually some old physician on here ranting a couple weeks ago how "admission isn't any harder now because there all these new schools coming up" completely ignoring the fact that only 5 MD schools have come out the past 35 years. When someone actually told him that he just went to the default "we'll agree to disagree" and that's else.
Only 5 MD schools? Do you know which ones? Texas alone has 4 new MD schools....UT Austin Dell, UTRGV, Paul L Foster, and TCU/UNT have joined together and released plans for a new MD school opening in 2018.
I meant 5 schools that don't have significant IS biases and are available for the majority of people not a select 2-3%. Should have clarified that. Anyway here are the list of schools, you can see for yourself how few over that time are available for all applicants.
2001 :FSU
2008: Cleveland Clinic
2009: FIU
2009: FCU
2011: FAU
2011: Hofstra
2012: Cooper Rowan
2013: TCMC
2013: Quinnipac
2013 :Texas Tech
2014: Western Michigan
2014: Va Tech
2015: Oakland
2017: Central Michigan
2017; UC riverside
I wouldn't really consider Cleveland Clinic since they have such astronomical admission criteria. I actually got to chat with their dean who casually told me most successful applicants have a 3.9/37 along with several first author pubs and serious amounts of service. He found a very nice way to say "you are massively unqualified for our school"
No, you graduate from the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine.Isnt it some kind of extension of Case Western. I admittedly know next to nothing about it
No, you graduate from the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine.
It's just so small that it's not listed on USNews and doesn't have enough infrastructure to be completely independent of CWRU.
CCLCM>>>CWRU
It's not like people in this thread are exactly hurting for MD love (see this entire thread). Gandy, you'll definitely get some MD shots, w/ a 67(?) LizzyM--no need to stress out.How does it feel to have a LizzyM of 4000?
It's not like people in this thread are exactly hurting for MD love (see this entire thread). Gandy, you'll definitely get some MD shots, w/ a 67(?) LizzyM--no need to stress out.
Only on SDN do you see applicants w/ almost a 70 LizzyM worrying that they're in deep ****.
Idk man, California's a bitchIt's not like people in this thread are exactly hurting for MD love (see this entire thread). Gandy, you'll definitely get some MD shots, w/ a 67(?) LizzyM--no need to stress out.
Only on SDN do you see applicants w/ almost a 70 LizzyM worrying that they're in deep ****.
Just for an excuse to hang out with y'all:
LizzyM: 68-69 (balanced)
Complete at 25 schools (waiting for 10 more, thank you FAP)
3 IIs: UCD, Oakland, Quinnipiac
Rejections: None, although UCLA and UCR won't give me secondaries so far.
New York resident
Thinking of applying DO but not sure it's necessary. I have a letter and everything's in--plus I have a fondness for OMM--but those secondaries are pricey. Any opinions?
Isn't Gandy from a midwest state?Idk man, California's a bitch
Idk man, California's a bitch
Isn't Gandy from a midwest state?
CA applicants w/ a 70 can be quite competitive at OOS private schools, no?
Lol don't you have a 37 man
I was speaking generally. The problem with LizzyM scores is that they really only have predictive power when balanced.Isn't Gandy from a midwest state?
CA applicants w/ a 70 can be quite competitive at OOS private schools, no?
Yea, and a low GPA. I wasn't really talking about myself anyway.Lol don't you have a 37 man
Yea, I'm from the Midwest.
That's what TBR promised me... I want a refund!Yea Zed has a 47.
That's what TBR promised me... I want a refund!
I bailed on the SMP btw, couldn't justify it. Your anti-SMP rhetoric got to me lolLol don't you have a 37 man
Just for an excuse to hang out with y'all:
LizzyM: 68-69 (balanced)
Complete at 25 schools (waiting for 10 more, thank you FAP)
3 IIs: UCD, Oakland, Quinnipiac
Rejections: None, although UCLA and UCR won't give me secondaries so far.
New York resident
Thinking of applying DO but not sure it's necessary. I have a letter and everything's in--plus I have a fondness for OMM--but those secondaries are pricey. Any opinions?
Why were you considering an SMP w/ a 37?? Do you have like a 2.5 or something?I bailed on the SMP btw, couldn't justify it. Your anti-SMP rhetoric got to me lol
I bailed on the SMP btw, couldn't justify it. Your anti-SMP rhetoric got to me lol
Why were you considering an SMP w/ a 37?? Do you have like a 2.5 or something?
You'd be surprised what kind of MCAT scores you'll see in some of the more well-known SMPs haha. I don't really want to reveal my GPA to protect what little is left of my anonymity. Suffice it to say that it's low enough that MD is by no means a guarantee.Why were you considering an SMP w/ a 37?? Do you have like a 2.5 or something?
Add Arizona to this list, just as bad as California for matriculating in-state applicants.
Source (if you want to be depressed):
https://www.aamc.org/download/321466/data/factstable5.pdf
Thanks! They're a bit unusual. I spent about >500 hours building and running a service organization. Built a brick and mortar business while in school--thousands of hours. >200 hours of underserved clinic volunteering. >600 hours research (no pubs.) Tutoring. Hospice. Some funky hobbies. My anonymity is going down the toilet here. Sigh.Congrats on your interviews!!!! Can you talk more about your ECs?
Thanks! They're a bit unusual. I spent about 600 hours building and running a support group. Built a brick and mortar business while in school--thousands of hours. >200 hours of underserved clinic volunteering. 800 hours research (no pubs.) Tutoring. Hospice. Some funky hobbies
I'm a nontrad and also kind of a quirky love-or-hate (I've been told) applicant, so idk what's going on..!
A quirky one likely to annoy some people. I got a psychiatrist to advise us tho, so that might help?Man, maybe I should build a brick and mortar business. Just kidding I dont know the first thing about running a business. What kind of support group are we talking here?
A quirky one likely to annoy some people. I got a psychiatrist to advise us tho, so that might help?
Edit: like, imagine it was a support group for people who had been kidnapped and kept in basements by Republicans. For unknown Republican reasons that wouldn't make sense to your average Republican. And the name of the group was The Republican Kidnap Survivors Group. And it turned out there were over 100 people in one city who had had that experience. And you are an adcom who is Republican.
Love or hate...! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯Wowzers, sounds intense.
Depends on who you ask.I think even with a 3.2, and a 37, it would be tough right?
A quirky one likely to annoy some people. I got a psychiatrist to advise us tho, so that might help?
Edit: like, imagine it was a support group for people who had been kidnapped and kept in basements by Republicans. For unknown Republican reasons that wouldn't make sense to your average Republican. And the name of the group was The Republican Kidnap Survivors Group. And it turned out there were over 100 people in one city who had had that experience. And you are an adcom who is Republican.
Exactly.
Exactly.
(Uh that wasn't what the group was for. But similar reactions likely!)
Unfortunately only about 1/2 of my school's applicants get in somewhere, and it's a fairly prestigious school. Many also consider it a "grade-deflating" school, if that matters.Depends on who you ask.
My school would tell you that you're a lock for MD if you apply broadly; our 3.25+ cGPA acceptance rate (so w/o consideration of that kick-ass MCAT) is 80%+. Obviously this includes URM, LGBTQ, special ECs etc, but I think a 3.2/37 from known rigorous programs is competitive; not a lock, but competitive.
If you look at AAMC Table 25, you will see that well more than half of Caucasian applicants with 3.2-3.39/36-38 got in. This is irregardless of UG institution, so this seems to support what I'm hearing.
I think we addressed this on another thread, you're at one of the top UCs?Unfortunately only about 1/2 of my school's applicants get in somewhere, and it's a fairly prestigious schools.
I'd love to be an optimist! I'm sitting this cycle out.I think we addressed this on another thread, you're at one of the top UCs?
Your numbers will invariably suffer because of the quantity of apps; I'd wager that if you read all of your schools applicants, you'd laugh and throw out at least 1/3 for being absurdly noncompetitive.
Not sure how you're doing this cycle but I'd be quite surprised if no MD schools take up a 37.
Mutual fanclub!I lulzed. @pageantry, you're awesome.
Mutual fanclub!
Mutually awkward fanclub!lyke omg!
You'd be surprised what kind of MCAT scores you'll see in some of the more well-known SMPs haha. I don't really want to reveal my GPA to protect what little is left of my anonymity. Suffice it to say that it's low enough that MD is by no means a guarantee.