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Guys, I need help trimming down my list of schools - thinking about taking off 5 or so. Can you give me some feedback based on my MDapps? The grade situation is 2 years at 3.1-3.4 (improvement), then 2 years at 3.7-3.8. The rest of the info is on the profile.
http://www.mdapplicants.com/viewprofile.php?myid=7795


I'm thinking about weeding out US schools, so disregard the 3 Canadian ones.
 
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jochi1543 said:
Guys, I need help trimming down my list of schools - thinking about taking off 5 or so. Can you give me some feedback based on my MDapps? The grade situation is 2 years at 3.1-3.4 (improvement), then 2 years at 3.7-3.8. The rest of the info is on the profile.
http://www.mdapplicants.com/viewprofile.php?myid=7795


I'm thinking about weeding out US schools, so disregard the 3 Canadian ones.
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Wow...that is a lot of applications to handle! Great Job on the MCAT...that will definitely help your average gpa.
 
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jochi1543 said:
Guys, I need help trimming down my list of schools - thinking about taking off 5 or so. Can you give me some feedback based on my MDapps? The grade situation is 2 years at 3.1-3.4 (improvement), then 2 years at 3.7-3.8. The rest of the info is on the profile.
http://www.mdapplicants.com/viewprofile.php?myid=7795


I'm thinking about weeding out US schools, so disregard the 3 Canadian ones.
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Are you applying as a canadian student? I have no idea what your chances are from there. How much of a disadvantage is it for outside the US students?
 
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AWhitehair said:
Wow...that is a lot of applications to handle! Great Job on the MCAT...that will definitely help your average gpa.
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Thanks!

Any places you think I should cross off? As far as distant reaches, right now I'm thinking about dropping Cornell, Brown, and Dartmouth and keeping Yale and Columbia. What do you think? Also any other schools that jump out as ones that don't belong on my profile?

I'm a little unsure about Maryland. I do have SOME ties to the state - went to HS there and my grandparents live there, but I don't know if it's enough considering my stats. Any opinions?
 
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DocFunk said:
Are you applying as a canadian student? I have no idea what your chances are from there. How much of a disadvantage is it for outside the US students?
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Yeah, Canadian.

I got strong ties to Minnesota, some experience living/working down South (Mississippi), and lived and went to high school in MD.


Went to a US undergrad, too (in Minnesota).


All the schools on my list take Canadians, so that criteria I've already evaluated.
 
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jochi1543 said:
Thanks!

Any places you think I should cross off? As far as distant reaches, right now I'm thinking about dropping Cornell, Brown, and Dartmouth and keeping Yale and Columbia. What do you think? Also any other schools that jump out as ones that don't belong on my profile?

I'm a little unsure about Maryland. I do have SOME ties to the state - went to HS there and my grandparents live there, but I don't know if it's enough considering my stats. Any opinions?
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I am not the person to ask about school outside of FL, GA or TN. I have not even looked at any other schools. I would say, for listening to what others have said in the past...it is difficult to get into a top tier school with a sub 33 MCAT and sub 3.7 gpa. It doesn't hurt to try though...what's the extra forty bucks, right? :luck:
 
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I'm really torn, since I'm neither a really bad applicant nor a really good one. My cumulative is alright and there's a definite upward trend, my BCPM sucks but mostly because of 2 courses from freshman year, my MCAT is fine, but not-mindblowing, my ECs are good, but there's no research, my undergrad institution is very highly ranked, but not very well-known.....meh.
 
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On a side note, I will say that it is good that you are keeping all of your options open...including caribbean, but I dont think it will come to that for you. You have a good application and the gpa trend is a big thing too.
 
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jochi1543 said:
I'm really torn, since I'm neither a really bad applicant nor a really good one. My cumulative is alright and there's a definite upward trend, my BCPM sucks but mostly because of 2 courses from freshman year, my MCAT is fine, but not-mindblowing, my ECs are good, but there's no research, my undergrad institution is very highly ranked, but not very well-known.....meh.
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I noticed that. That might hurt you for the top tier schools.
 
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AWhitehair said:
I am not the person to ask about school outside of FL, GA or TN. I have not even looked at any other schools. I would say, for listening to what others have said in the past...it is difficult to get into a top tier school with a sub 33 MCAT and sub 3.7 gpa. It doesn't hurt to try though...what's the extra forty bucks, right? :luck:
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Yeah, that's pretty much how I feel....money is not a huge issue - of course I'd prefer to spend less, but my father who's freaking loaded is going to cover everything, so it's not a deciding factor for me in terms of picking the number of schools. I'm more concerned about the effort required for secondaries. I won't be working this summer (quit today :hardy:), but I WILL be going home for 2 weeks minimum - maybe 3 - where I won't be doing too much schoolwork, and then I got a physics course to finish by end of August, too.
 
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AWhitehair said:
I noticed that. That might hurt you for the top tier schools.
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I'm trying to figure out which top tiers are less heavy on research...I know Harvard is, so I took it off already. I hear Yale is not so anal about it, and apparently, Columbia is similar. Right now it's the Cornell-Brown-Dartmouth that I can't decide whether to keep or toss - I haven't heard too much about the extent of their commitment to research in their applicants.
 
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jochi1543 said:
Yeah, that's pretty much how I feel....money is not a huge issue - of course I'd prefer to spend less, but my father who's freaking loaded is going to cover everything, so it's not a deciding factor for me in terms of picking the number of schools. I'm more concerned about the effort required for secondaries. I won't be working this summer (quit today :hardy:), but I WILL be going home for 2 weeks minimum - maybe 3 - where I won't be doing too much schoolwork, and then I got a physics course to finish by end of August, too.
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Holla! The real world is about to hit for me in a couple months when I gradumuate. Back to working full time! 🙁
 
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AWhitehair said:
Holla! The real world is about to hit for me in a couple months when I gradumuate. Back to working full time! 🙁
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Works sucks. *shudder* I haven't worked full-time since graduating last spring, but I came pretty close at 30-35 hours a week. It blows!
 
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DocFunk said:
that's real life for ya!
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I gotta say, though, the good thing about work is that at most jobs, you've got your weekend (or whatever other days you get off work) entirely to yourself. With school, there are always looming deadlines, homework, exams, etc, so even when class is done on Friday, you KNOW you're gonna spend at least half your weekend studying.
 
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jochi1543 said:
I gotta say, though, the good thing about work is that at most jobs, you've got your weekend (or whatever other days you get off work) entirely to yourself. With school, there are always looming deadlines, homework, exams, etc, so even when class is done on Friday, you KNOW you're gonna spend at least half your weekend studying.
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there are deadlines in work also you know 😛
 
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DocFunk said:
there are deadlines in work also you know 😛
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Yeah, but at least you're getting paid for all that ****.

I'd take undergrad over work any day simply based on the fact that the extent of misery among those surrounding you is that much lower in school. Most people in school are fairly positive and have hopes for the future, while once you venture into the 9-to-5 world, you're going to be surrounded by depressed (pseudo or real) failures - they think they are not making enough money, not getting enough respect, not getting anywhere, then you got all these stupid office power politics - urgh. 👎

I seriously don't know how people who've ever worked in an office manage to enjoy "The Office." I for one have a physical reaction when I see people in cubicles.:laugh:
 
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I'm such a terrible person! I only did 2 lab reports today.👎 I decided I need to 1) go somewhere that has a desk, because here I write sitting on my bed, which makes my neck and back tire really quickly and hate lab reports even more 2) go somewhere where I'd be away from a computer, but have access to chemical data. So I'm heading to the campus library tomorrow and locking myself up there with the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics until 4 reports are done.:meanie:
 
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i went to the gym, worked my butt off...

... and now i'm eating honey mustard pretzels.

*smacks head*
 
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oh, and did you know you can really burn a hole through your clothes when you're ironing?

i never thought it was true, but i proved myself wrong 😳
 
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jochi1543 said:
I'm trying to figure out which top tiers are less heavy on research...I know Harvard is, so I took it off already. I hear Yale is not so anal about it, and apparently, Columbia is similar. Right now it's the Cornell-Brown-Dartmouth that I can't decide whether to keep or toss - I haven't heard too much about the extent of their commitment to research in their applicants.
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I'd toss Brown. They have a small class with much of it already filled with linked programs.
 
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docfunk, i'm too lazy to find your post replying to mine yesterday, but when i was in nyc on saturday/sunday, i pretty much walked around, sweated my butt off, and also (randomly) took the free ferry over to staten island and right back again.
 
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lilithny said:
i liked it better when you could take your car on it.

can you do that anymore?
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I think there might be another one that you can take your car on, but I'm not sure. This one was only for people (but tons of them), and it leaves every half hour.
 
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Hey Randomites in or through med school: What lender did you use?



I'm leaning towards THE because it seems like they have better customer service and Sallie Mae is the devil incarnate here to suck the souls out of innocent med students (or at least what was left after the MCAT).
 
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