SABA: NO MCAT score?

[honeygold822]

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hello everyone,

Just curious if there are recent SABA students without MCAt scores . I have a decent GPA with tons of clinical experience but no MCAT score...I know that's gonna be brought up during the interview and kind of nervous about what to say...It's basically because I know that would take me another yr to prepare for it and I've already spent 5 yrs in undergrad..Anyhow, just curious what other people said...Thanks...

 

[oldpro]

hello everyone,

Just curious if there are recent SABA students without MCAt scores . I have a decent GPA with tons of clinical experience but no MCAT score...I know that's gonna be brought up during the interview and kind of nervous about what to say...It's basically because I know that would take me another yr to prepare for it and I've already spent 5 yrs in undergrad..Anyhow, just curious what other people said...Thanks...

You have a 99.9% chance of waisting the application fee to SABA it is very competitive to get in there, plus it's part of the California approval that the school requires the MCAT........................

 

[honeygold822]

so ur saying Cali requires their physicians to have MCAT scores? When I spoke to SABA reps at MA, they said it was not reuired...?

 

[oldpro]

so ur saying Cali requires their physicians to have MCAT scores? When I spoke to SABA reps at MA, they said it was not reuired...?

Nope this is about the school being equal to an american medical school, thats how California evaluates the school, in fact it is how Spartan lost it's approval, they started to take students without MCATS and low GPA's so Spartan was deemed inferior by California. If SABA takes too many without an MCAT then the same may happen to them, no school is safe, to Be honest California is a little nuts about the approval and really just takes it all too far.

Maybe they will accept you but that would be a surprise since they just turned down a few people I know with a 3.2 and 22 MCAT scores...............Seems strange to accept others without at least the MCAT? 😕

 

[Pathlesstrvld]

Nope this is about the school being equal to an american medical school, thats how California evaluates the school, in fact it is how Spartan lost it's approval, they started to take students without MCATS and low GPA's.....:

SABA was approved by California while accepting students without the MCAT, as well as Ross, and other top schools. The MCAT requirement is not a California requirement, as much as it is a technical formality. Furthermore, problems with Spartan are much more profound than accepting students without the MCAT score, or low GPAs.

 

[oldpro]

SABA was approved by California while accepting students without the MCAT, as well as Ross, and other top schools. The MCAT requirement is not a California requirement, as much as it is a technical formality. Furthermore, problems with Spartan are much more profound than accepting students without the MCAT score, or low GPAs.

What they didn't pay California enough? Vacations there Sucked? What then?

The more you post like this makes me think (I think this anyway) that the Cali approval is just a control and power trip by the Cali board, to control how many FMG and IMG docs come into the state without attending the stateside schools where Cali makes money form the schools and they can count on a certain number of Docs from the schools, Hence controlling the market for the Docs and the money they make..................................Yep I have seen this in the past. California has stated the approval is so the school provides equal education as a US school, many of these schools do so why is the MCAT a big deal? I'll tell you, it keeps the flow of students out of Medical school in the USA, it's a tool to make more money on the getting into medschool game, you are way naive to think this is not so, someone with above a 3.6 should be accepted into medical school without an MCAT but this test was put out there as a "Quality measure" Then made harder and harder on purpose, they have found out at the Universities that they can make more $$ on students staying an extra year or two trying to earn better GPAs and studying to retake the MCAT to get accepted, so much that the average age of 1st semester MD students has increased by a few years.............................

Think before you post this is not so, it is look back 25 years ago, how hard was it to get into medschool then?


That all said to the OP if the applicant pool has MCATS then it beats you out for admission.

 

[SabaMed]

What they didn't pay California enough? Vacations there Sucked? What then?

The more you post like this makes me think (I think this anyway) that the Cali approval is just a control and power trip by the Cali board, to control how many FMG and IMG docs come into the state without attending the stateside schools where Cali makes money form the schools and they can count on a certain number of Docs from the schools, Hence controlling the market for the Docs and the money they make..................................Yep I have seen this in the past. California has stated the approval is so the school provides equal education as a US school, many of these schools do so why is the MCAT a big deal? I'll tell you, it keeps the flow of students out of Medical school in the USA, it's a tool to make more money on the getting into medschool game, you are way naive to think this is not so, someone with above a 3.6 should be accepted into medical school without an MCAT but this test was put out there as a "Quality measure" Then made harder and harder on purpose, they have found out at the Universities that they can make more $$ on students staying an extra year or two trying to earn better GPAs and studying to retake the MCAT to get accepted, so much that the average age of 1st semester MD students has increased by a few years.............................

Think before you post this is not so, it is look back 25 years ago, how hard was it to get into medschool then?


That all said to the OP if the applicant pool has MCATS then it beats you out for admission.

Saba will require the MCAT shorty... Like within the next term or 2.