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Just saw this on the premed subreddit. Anyone try it out yet? Seems like a worthy alternative to shelling out for the MSAR subscription. http://disgruntledpremed.github.io/open-msra
And if you can work your own Excel magic, you can turn that into something more like this:$25 isn't "shelling out." The MSAR is essential, and using the free/legal version of this Open MSRA does not compare. There's a spreadsheet floating around SDN somewhere where you can input your stats, it calculates your LizzyM score, and it color codes the schools based on your chances. You should be able to find it with a bit of digging.
Is that the 'legal' one, or the 'please do not post on SDN' one?Here is the LizzyM score evaluation spreadsheet mentioned above: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...Ex2MjlBTDE0bXFXNGFZczZqYTZKb2c&hl=en_US#gid=0
While we're on the topic of the MSAR, I'd like to nominate WashU for having the weirdest thumbnail picture ever.
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$25 isn't "shelling out." The MSAR is essential, and using the free/legal version of this Open MSRA does not compare. There's a spreadsheet floating around SDN somewhere where you can input your stats, it calculates your LizzyM score, and it color codes the schools based on your chances. You should be able to find it with a bit of digging.
It doesn't matter how much it costs, this is information that should be free. I find it ridiculous that people are trying to put a copyright on basic admissions information that should be free and open to everyone. Wake up, sheeple!!
Remember the one from last year?While we're on the topic of the MSAR, I'd like to nominate WashU for having the weirdest thumbnail picture ever.
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This.If you think paying for the real MSAR is shelling out, you've got a long application cycle ahead of you.
It doesn't matter how much it costs, this is information that should be free. I find it ridiculous that people are trying to put a copyright on basic admissions information that should be free and open to everyone. Wake up, sheeple!!
The facts aren't copyrighted. Their efforts in gathering the facts are protected.This. I don't care if it "only" costs $25. Facts can't be copyrighted. More importantly, considering how much money AAMC is extorting from us applicants for MCAT registration and AMCAS application fees, I'm going to do everything I can to save money and pay them more than I have to.
This. I don't care if it "only" costs $25. Facts can't be copyrighted. More importantly, considering how much money AAMC is extorting from us applicants for MCAT registration and AMCAS application fees, I'm going to do everything I can to save money and pay them more than I have to.
I understand that the process is expensive. It only gets more expensive from here on out. I wish things could be cheaper. But they're not charging you money just because they love money. People put time and effort into creating these services, AAMC employees, people who get paid for their work just like you and me. As with everything in capitalism, you pay for goods and services, and AAMC provides the services you need to utilize in order to apply to medical school.
This. AAMC has a fee assistance program (FAP) that considerably reduces the expenses of applying to medical school. If you don't qualify for FAP because your income is above 300% federal poverty guideline levels, then there is a very likely chance that you can afford MSAR (and the application process itself).
You know, the 10th-90th percentile data is almost impossible to find on medical schools' websites. I figure that AAMC has some "special" access to it, or schools are actually willing to give AAMC that data. Regardless, there is no reason for anyone to expect that they have a "right" to this data, let alone for free. I hate entitlement.
Well the AAMC has the GPA and MCAT from all the students... and knows where they matriculate. So it really is their data, which the school could also release if they want.
This. AAMC has a fee assistance program (FAP) that considerably reduces the expenses of applying to medical school. If you don't qualify for FAP because your income is above 300% federal poverty guideline levels, then there is a very likely chance that you can afford MSAR (and the application process itself).