I have my own personal reasons for keeping an eye on this place but I was wondering: What does it take to guarantee a spot or just get in - in general - at the USC SOM?
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are you referring to University of Southern California or to University of South Carolina?
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it helps if you work at or do research at their med school or any of the health science campus professional schools. Volunteering at the hospital would help, having strong ties to USC would help, and having > 3.7 and > 35 MCAT would really help.
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I assume you are talking about University of Southern California (Keck School of Medicine) and not University of South Carolinia (Which just changed its name to MUSC or something).
Anyway if you are talking about University of Southern Cal. then there is nothing that will guarantee you a spot in that school in terms of certain #'s that you need to get. I will tell you that your GPA is low not only for USC but for all medical schools in general. With that GPA I would think you would need AT LEAST a 34+ to even be considered. After you ROCK the MCAT you will need to do the same for your Personal statement and IF you are given an interview you will need to show them that you are someone that the other members of the school could see t hemselves teaching (if you interview with a professor) or being friends/co-workers with (if you interview with a student). The thing that is holding you back at this point is ABSOLUTELY your GPA
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are you interested in USC because of its film school?
regardless, there are no guarantees in this game.
what do you mean by getting in "in general"?
how much of your mdapp is real? i'm asking because it's a bit disjointed: did you do the fulbright already? did you really get 40 mcat? and the internships are jumbled...
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the ONE guarantee in this process is that there are no guarantees
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Well said.
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Actually MUSC=/=USC... They are two separate medical schools, both of which happen to be in South Carolina...
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My bad.
Anyway...when I saw that you had posted in a USC thread I was 98% sure that you would just throw up a
ton of these things.LOL I am glad that USC no longer makes you feel this way anymore.
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I watched a presentation by their admissions. They seemed to really be concerned about the lack of doctors in really rural areas. They also said that the best way to get new doctors to practice in these areas is to make physicians out of people from these areas because usually people tend to move close to their hometown after medical school and residency.
What I am trying to say is being from a random, really rural county in CA that needs doctors will be looked at as a plus vs. for example orange county. Especially if you stress that as one of the reasons you want to be a doctor.
At this point though theres probably not a way for you to change your hometown.
What I am trying to say is being from a random, really rural county in CA that needs doctors will be looked at as a plus vs. for example orange county. Especially if you stress that as one of the reasons you want to be a doctor.
At this point though theres probably not a way for you to change your hometown.
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Maybe that is why I was accepted. I told them that I was from a rural town (in a different sate though).
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How about being an indentured servant? I'd be one for like 3 years if it meant I was guaranteed a spot at Keck.
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Well you will still get to be an indentured servant when you are trying to pay back $275k+++ in loans (before interest).
Ugghhh if only USC was not so expensive...it would make my choice a ton easier.
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Yes, definitely aware of that. I plan to take a year of post bacc to raise my grades up, but I wonder how strict are they in terms of numbers (GPA and MCAT-wise)
while that would be an excellent bonus (esp. when in my mdapps I state that I'm interested in filmmaking), it is not the only reason, nor the primary one.
I meant by numbers (GPA and MCAT) and non-numbers (interview, personal statement, student background, activities in college, etc.). I hear that in the interview the interviewers have no idea what the student's numbers are -- that they only evaluate character? Is this true?
In the portion "In the works" in my mdapps, it means that they have yet to happen or are just ideas of mine. Anything above that has been done already, including the Fulbright (which is not the popular one-year fellowship but rather a summer fellowship that I applied and interviewed for). I'm set to intern in Nairobi already for this coming summer but anything below that hasn't happened yet. And no, I have not taken the MCAT yet 😛 But with my grades I'm really hoping to get a 40+ after giving myself ample time and resources to study for it.
You're right. 😛
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bet she can...
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USC likes MCAT a lot. If you get an interview you have a really high chance of gaining admission.
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bet she can't
no offense OP...odds are against you though. Anyway you probably do not NEED to score that high to have a chance. Anything in the 99.2% will do just fine🙄
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i got in:
http://www.mdapplicants.com/viewprofile.php?myid=11265
@ my interview i just made sure to be myself, relax and enjoy my time there .. the key is getting that interview..
just keep working hard 🙂
http://www.mdapplicants.com/viewprofile.php?myid=11265
@ my interview i just made sure to be myself, relax and enjoy my time there .. the key is getting that interview..
just keep working hard 🙂
