So the interview is paramount, no?

[R_C_Hutchinson]

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just browsed through mdapplicants.com and some of those profiles are simply depressing. many people with 37+ mcats and 3.8+ gpa's got one or two acceptances to state schools only. all i can think is "but for the grace of God, there go I." From checking through all the data, it seems there's almost no correlation between scores and schools accepted, so the only other factor i can think of is that your interview counts far more than any of your GPA/experience/Mcat etc. Is this true? Is there just a large number of one dimensional folk out there who can do nothing but study? did they spit on the interview committee? what gives?

 

[Brickhouse]

Don't count yourself out, but don't count yourself in.

I think the whole thing is arbitrary, and the only reason we all flock around this website is to learn that our stats got someone in somewhere, and it could happen to us to.

And I think that enough hope to hang on.

And you might as well just ace your interview regardless of how important it might be.

 

[Street Philosopher]

Letters of recommendation are also very important.

 

[R_C_Hutchinson]

how many LOR's do you need for med school? i'm close with one high-up, and the guy i do research with (faculty who doesnt teach) as well as one professor, but honestly if i need more than 3 LOR's im screwed blued and tatooed

 

[XCanadianRagwee]

Most schools require 3 LORs. It doesn't matter who they are per se, but what they say in the LOR. It's not quantity, it's quality with LORs (as long as yo have at least three).