Please let me know if further clarification is needed.
We will have at least 6 biomedical science faculty there, along with 2 faculty from our department of social medicine. There will also be at least 4 clinical faculty there as primary care and osteopathic manipulative medicine specialists.
I am hoping they will see past it.
Emailed or phone call. There is no online portal.
My guess is the majority of students receive a secondary, as long as they meet minimum requirments.
DO is always preferred, but I don't think it is absolutely required. I am in the same boat as you, no DO letter
Thanks, meep!! meep!!
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I remember reading somewhere that the application needs to be filled electronically. Maybe i am just being neurotic and its not a big deal
Ah, yes. That is a different number altogether. We will send out around 3,000 to 3,200 secondary applications to OOS'ers. Not all who apply are meeting our out of state threshold of either a 3.25 natural science gpa or 24 MCAT, so there is always a portion that we have to immediately reject. All Ohio applicants automatically get a secondary application, so the total we send hovers between 3,800 and 4,000
Let me know if I'm still not getting at your question.
D'oh! After I posted this I realized that I did not really answer your question at all. We receive around 3,800 completed applications each year. That includes OOS and in-state.
Hey meep meep! Thanks for answering a lot of questions so far. I do have one of my own, I am an OOS AA student with a decent gpa. 3.67c 3.44s but my mcat was below a 24. I received a secondary application and wanted your opinion on the matter
Good to know, thanks!
Something else I was wondering about is how multiple mcat retakes are viewed-- is there an emphasis placed on the most recent or are all considered?
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I remember reading somewhere that the application needs to be filled electronically. Maybe i am just being neurotic and its not a big deal
No worries, we know this is a stressful process and you just want to do everything right. What we really want is to receive a secondary application that is filled out so we can read it. We've just used a convoluted way of saying "don't handwrite your essay!" If you can fill it out in Word, Adobe, or on a typewriter then we are happy.
We hope to begin sending out interview invitations by the end of the week. We are exactly one month away from our first interview day (where has the summer gone!).
Our students do their clerkships in our Centers for Osteopathic Research and Education. Check out http://www.ohiocore.org/ to see our hospitals. You can also check out curriculum information on this site http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/academicaffairs/curriculum_resources/studentlinks34.htm. It is written for our current year 3/4 students, but there might be some useful nuggets in there for you too.
We are actually planning both rural and urban rotations. Since the populations are different, they need to be two separate things. We have a special curricular track for students interested in serving underserved areas called the Rural and Urban Scholars Pathway. You can check it out here http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/Admissions/FutureStudents/Scholar.htm.
Hope that helps
Glad you asked! You should be completely fine with only an MD letter. What we are trying to glean from a physician letter is that you know what you are getting into, if the physician feels that you can handle the rigor of medical school and if the physician can see you as a future colleague.
The DO letter becomes special because the osteopathic profession really is like a family and the osteopathic clinical faculty on our student selection committee usually have some personal connection with the letter writer. We view a DO letter as an advantage, but the most important thing is that a physician, MD or DO, knows you well enough to write on your behalf.
Hope that helps
