Hey AnonymousDO,
Thank you for taking questions. I'm truly interested in this program.
- How many people are interviewed by TCMC who perform well in the program? How many are accepted?
- How many students are MD bound, and how many are DO bound?
- In terms of MCAT, I notice their average is 26 on that page. For people who get accepted into TCMC, did anyone have to retake the MCAT to do so? I guess here, I'm asking, does the school only care about your performance in the program, or MCAT as well?
Thank you so much for your time!
1.) Ah yes, the million dollar question. I and everyone else asked ourselves this so many times. I wish I could give a concrete answer. TCMC used to post some statistic on how many of their students had gotten in but I don't see it anymore. My best advice is to email them specifically or ask them at interview, as I'm sure it has changed over time and even from year to year. They get this question all the time, so they should be able to answer. I will say, that their acceptance rate of students is higher than the general population of applicants, showing that the program does help.
Not everyone that interviews (for the MD from MBS) gets into TCMC. They look at EVERYTHING. To be successful, participate in as much as possible (clubs, volunteer, etc.) have a good GPA, and a good MCAT. You have to do it all. But again, do well in the program and it will help your chances, but there are certainly no guarantees
2.) I believe most people wanted to get into MD, but that is true in general anyway obviously. Our class president contacted some D.O.s in the area and people were very interested in this, so there were def. people that were interested in the whole D.O. side of things. Keep in mind too that TCMC is an M.D. school
One thing that is important to say is that I had and MD and a DO interview BEFORE entering the program. So I was pretty darn close to getting in anyway. Look at the avgs for people entering the program last year though. 3.2 GPA and a 26 MCAT.....umm....this isn't too competitive at most MD schools lets be real. Say you pull that MCAT up to 30 and get a 4.0 in the program. Now you are looking at a 3.4 GPA overall at best (it goes into undergrad GPA). Yes the fact TCMC is grad school helps but 3.4 bottom line is below avg for most MD schools. Take a serious look at at your own GPA. If your science GPA blows, good luck regardless of what you do I think it would be smart to give yourself the best opportunities available (aka apply to both M.D. and DO)
3.) TCMC again looks at everything. Most people retook the MCAT w/ the princeton review course, either summer before or after. Why not? you are spending 40 K on a program to get into med school. unless you have like a 29 and don't think you can pull it up, take the course. I don't think TCMC would bias against not doing the course, I would think that your number is what it is. I also would have to say if you do the program and improve the MCAT score, it looks favorable in terms of effort, and this was something that TCMC made pretty obvious throughout the year
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