*selectivity of M.D./Ph.D. programs in question

[Frodo7]

AS OF 11/17/09 I received: 3 MD/PhD interview invites , 0 MD invites (2 OOS, 1 INSTATE)

***EDIT: AMCAS/MCAT COMPLETE 8/30, COMPLETE at MOST SCHOOLS ~9/13

---3.9 SCI AMCAS GPA , 3.4 CGPA

---I had 3.7 undergrad GPA at my university (100 credit hours of science courses and approx 30 hours of AO)

---28 MCAT was doing better on practice tests

--- I have LOTS of research exp and a decent amount of clinical exp .... and a lot of business management experience within the family company)

I will also have some DO/PhD secondaries completed by end of next week so I'm shooting for maybe 1 or 2 interviews from a DO school -- I really believe in the DO philosophy and I hope to get in, so I'm praying for an acceptance

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[swamprat]

AS OF 11/17/09 I received: 3 MD/PhD interview invites , 0 MD invites (2 OOS, 1 INSTATE)

***EDIT: AMCAS/MCAT COMPLETE 8/30, COMPLETE at MOST SCHOOLS ~9/13

---3.9 SCI AMCAS GPA , 3.4 CGPA

---I had 3.7 undergrad GPA at my university (100 credit hours of science courses and approx 30 hours of AO)

---28 MCAT was doing better on practice tests

--- I have LOTS of research exp and a decent amount of clinical exp .... and a lot of business management experience within the family company)

I will also have some DO/PhD secondaries completed by end of next week so I'm shooting for maybe 1 or 2 interviews from a DO school -- I really believe in the DO philosophy and I hope to get in, so I'm praying for an acceptance

Sounds awesome to me. I'm suprised you have 3 MD/PhD interviews with a 28 MCAT, I really thought you needed >33 to have a shot at any of those..

 

[GoSpursGo]

I get the feeling that MD/PhD programs are more caring about the quality of research than stats (though clearly the two often go hand-in-hand). I have a friend who has an MD/PhD interview with a 26.

Moving to What are my Chances.

 

[Frodo7]

Sounds awesome to me. I'm suprised you have 3 MD/PhD interviews with a 28 MCAT, I really thought you needed >33 to have a shot at any of those..

me too, apparently it's easier to get into a MD PhD program. But I guess it makes sense, MD PhD programs receive at most a few hundred applications and many times some schools will only have ~80 applications to review.

 

[FluffyRabbit]

me too, apparently it's easier to get into a MD PhD program. But I guess it makes sense, MD PhD programs receive at most a few hundred applications and many times some schools will only have ~80 applications to review.

Are you sure? This contradicts everything I've heard so far...

 

[GoSpursGo]

Are you sure? This contradicts everything I've heard so far...

I mean I think it depends on which programs you're applying to. Surely all of the top top MSTP programs in the country are highly competitive; if you're applying to MD/PhD at your state school, though, you're probably not competing with very many people.

 

[jckut10]

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[LateBl00meR]

Don't you need to take the GRE as well?

 

[Frodo7]

No, many programs accept the MCAT in lieu of the GRE.


maybe....well, since most schools have 5000 + applications to review, they don't ever have a chance to thoroughly examine all the resumes. I guess I am getting more MD/PhD interviews because my application is actually being read for content, instead of jumping straight to the MCAT score.

 

[bannie22]

must have nature and science pubs