Schools that are grad student friendly?

[Ashlee24]

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Hello! I am a grad student (obviously) and I wanted to know which schools would be good for me. I see a lot of stats out there but only for undergrad. I got my masters in Biomedical Sciences and have a 3.9. Thank you!

 

[WedgeDawg]

All medical schools are grad student friendly, but you can't depend on graduate work to compensate for a poor MCAT/undergrad GPA in most cases.

 

[JustAPhD]

Your masters won't be a detriment to your app, but it won't help much. Graduate GPAs are inflated, and this is well known to adcoms. That 3.9 means little, unless it's from a SMP, in which case it may be beneficial.

 

[Ashlee24]

Your masters won't be a detriment to your app, but it won't help much. Graduate GPAs are inflated, and this is well known to adcoms. That 3.9 means little, unless it's from a SMP, in which case it may be beneficial.

The thing with my program is that I am not sure if it is categorized as an SMP or not so that also plays into a little confusion also as to where I stand as a regular graduate student vs an SMP graduate student. Would it help if I told you some of the classes I took?

 

[Goro]

MSAR Online tells you what # of the matriculants have post-bac work or a graduate degree. Schools with higher %'s tend to be those that usually reward reinvention, like Albany, BU, Tulane, NYMC, Dartmouth and UCSF.

 

[Ashlee24]

there are no set of standards as to what an SMP is or isnt. It is solely self-identified by the program itself. A masters is bio med science is generally promoted as an SMP to students and should be presented as such in your application, especially in any committee or other letters you get from the program. How impressive or impactful any particular SMP will be to any particular medical school is not measured by any useful statistic. It is up to the student to work with his or her SMP to find out successes and any association, either by linkage or reputation, to any particular medical school

Thank you. This was the most straight to the point answer.