Podiatry or Caribbean Medical School
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Wait, is that MCAT score a typo or did you really get a 38?
You put a GPA for medical school, but what does that mean? You got kicked out or are you currently attending a Caribbean medical school?
The negative for the Caribbean medical schools outweigh those for podiatry school because despite podiatry school's high retention rate the Caribbean med schools have an even higher retention rate. The issue with the Caribbean med schools is the lack of residency placement to US hospitals.
If you want to go to a medical school then why don't you apply to a DO school? If that isn't a typo and you DID get a 38 on your MCAT you have a great chance at getting into any one of the 30 DO schools. Obviously you want to go down the medical school route because you are just now looking at podiatry and you already have an MCAT score.
Be careful when applying to Caribbean schools because not all are accredited, meaning that your M.D. degree will not be recognized in the United States. Ross School
of Medicine, Saba School of Medicine (Saba) and St. Georges University (Grenada) are the most recognized and highly accredited Caribbean medical schools.
Caribbean Medical Schools only have arrangements with a select few hospitals in the United States. In other words, your options for clinical rotations may be limited compared with those of students who attend U.S. medical schools.
There are just so many more questions for the Caribbean med schools than podiatry schools, but why don't you go down the DO or MD route? Pretty sure a 38 on your MCAT is at least the top 1 percentile.
You put a GPA for medical school, but what does that mean? You got kicked out or are you currently attending a Caribbean medical school?
The negative for the Caribbean medical schools outweigh those for podiatry school because despite podiatry school's high retention rate the Caribbean med schools have an even higher retention rate. The issue with the Caribbean med schools is the lack of residency placement to US hospitals.
If you want to go to a medical school then why don't you apply to a DO school? If that isn't a typo and you DID get a 38 on your MCAT you have a great chance at getting into any one of the 30 DO schools. Obviously you want to go down the medical school route because you are just now looking at podiatry and you already have an MCAT score.
Be careful when applying to Caribbean schools because not all are accredited, meaning that your M.D. degree will not be recognized in the United States. Ross School
of Medicine, Saba School of Medicine (Saba) and St. Georges University (Grenada) are the most recognized and highly accredited Caribbean medical schools.Caribbean Medical Schools only have arrangements with a select few hospitals in the United States. In other words, your options for clinical rotations may be limited compared with those of students who attend U.S. medical schools.
There are just so many more questions for the Caribbean med schools than podiatry schools, but why don't you go down the DO or MD route? Pretty sure a 38 on your MCAT is at least the top 1 percentile.
I got two f's in my freshmen year that arn't calculated in our schools gpa, but medical school counts those. If I apply to DO i'd have to wait another year so I'd be wasting two years between undergrad and grad. A lot of people are saying podiatry is the better option because you still get to go into surgery
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Who cares, that's an upward trend. Schools love to see that. You overcame adversity, grew up and moved on. It shows you're human an able to learn from mistakes. If you really got a 38 that's insane and you would never have to ever contemplate Carib schools. You would get into a US MD school no problem. I'm assuming you have ECs and LORs etc.
Do you really want the fact that you're going to have to wait an extra year determine your career for the next (presumably) 40 years? Podiatry is a great career but don't just go into it because you don't want to wait around for a year. A year or two really isn't that long in the grand scheme of things.
Wait, so you are going to let your life at age 22 and 23 dictate what you do from age 30 to retirement? That idea isn't that smart.
I don't know the timeline for the MD or DO school application cycle, but why not just apply to those schools for the 2015 cycle? The 2015 cycle is the earliest you can get into a podiatry school (well New York is the only school that has a winter rolling admissions where your first semester is in January).
For example, Harvard's medical school the last date for you to submit your AMCAS application is October 15th and that is the week of the earliest application deadline (except for UofM's med school).
According to the AMCAS website ( https://www.aamc.org/students/applying/amcas/participating_schools/ ) among the 134 MD programs that participate in the AMCAS there are 32 schools whose application deadline is BEFORE November 1st then 48 whose deadline is November 3rd, 22 whose deadline is November 17th.
Keep in mind, here is the average matriculate to US Med Schools has been 31 for the last 4yrs.
If you want some positive reinforcement look at this URL: https://www.aamc.org/download/321518/data/2013factstable25-4.pdf
In 2013, only 7.6% of the 25,000+ applicants had an MCAT score of 36 or higher.
52% of applicants who had a 3.2 to 3.39 GPA but an MCAT from 36 to 38 got accepted vs. the entire national average of being 46%. Then add in that you have one thing on your side: UPWARD TREND. You did poorly freshman year but had above a 3.5 after that. If you look at the stats, you have a better chance at getting in with a 3.25 GPA and a 38 MCAT than someone with a 3.8 GPA and a 26 MCAT.
In 2013, there was a 74.2% acceptance rate among MD applicants with a 3.8+GPA and an MCAT of 21 or more vs. a 77.3% acceptance rate among any applicant with an MCAT of 33 or higher (84.8% acceptance rate among those with an MCAT of 36 or higher). Then among the applicants who had a GPA of 3.0 to 3.79 and an MCAT of 36+ were accepted at a 78.2% rate.
So basically, sometimes the MCAT score is just as important as the GPA. Yes, practically 50% of the students that got a 33+ on their MCAT were in the 3.8+ GPA range. DON'T GIVE UP!!!
I don't know the timeline for the MD or DO school application cycle, but why not just apply to those schools for the 2015 cycle? The 2015 cycle is the earliest you can get into a podiatry school (well New York is the only school that has a winter rolling admissions where your first semester is in January).
For example, Harvard's medical school the last date for you to submit your AMCAS application is October 15th and that is the week of the earliest application deadline (except for UofM's med school).
According to the AMCAS website ( https://www.aamc.org/students/applying/amcas/participating_schools/ ) among the 134 MD programs that participate in the AMCAS there are 32 schools whose application deadline is BEFORE November 1st then 48 whose deadline is November 3rd, 22 whose deadline is November 17th.
Keep in mind, here is the average matriculate to US Med Schools has been 31 for the last 4yrs.
If you want some positive reinforcement look at this URL: https://www.aamc.org/download/321518/data/2013factstable25-4.pdf
In 2013, only 7.6% of the 25,000+ applicants had an MCAT score of 36 or higher.
52% of applicants who had a 3.2 to 3.39 GPA but an MCAT from 36 to 38 got accepted vs. the entire national average of being 46%. Then add in that you have one thing on your side: UPWARD TREND. You did poorly freshman year but had above a 3.5 after that. If you look at the stats, you have a better chance at getting in with a 3.25 GPA and a 38 MCAT than someone with a 3.8 GPA and a 26 MCAT.
In 2013, there was a 74.2% acceptance rate among MD applicants with a 3.8+GPA and an MCAT of 21 or more vs. a 77.3% acceptance rate among any applicant with an MCAT of 33 or higher (84.8% acceptance rate among those with an MCAT of 36 or higher). Then among the applicants who had a GPA of 3.0 to 3.79 and an MCAT of 36+ were accepted at a 78.2% rate.
So basically, sometimes the MCAT score is just as important as the GPA. Yes, practically 50% of the students that got a 33+ on their MCAT were in the 3.8+ GPA range. DON'T GIVE UP!!!
take a gap year.
do a post-bacc for the year.
get that GPA to around a 3.5ish.
that MCAT with a 3.5 GPA will more or less solidify your chance at getting into american MD programs (considered D.O. which does grade replacement).
unless you actually think you would enjoy podiatry, then feel free to apply.
you'll get acceptance to most likely at least 7 of the 9 with some merit scholarship from some.
good luck man.
do a post-bacc for the year.
get that GPA to around a 3.5ish.
that MCAT with a 3.5 GPA will more or less solidify your chance at getting into american MD programs (considered D.O. which does grade replacement).
unless you actually think you would enjoy podiatry, then feel free to apply.
you'll get acceptance to most likely at least 7 of the 9 with some merit scholarship from some.
good luck man.
