When should I think about which med schools I should apply to?

[miniman]

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So, I'm a second-year student, I haven't taken the MCAT, but have a gap 3.73. I have some ECs. But when should I start compiling my list? I hear some do it the year before, other three years before, and some a few months before. I feel like I should just wait but should I?

 

[Frogger27]

So, I'm a second-year student, I haven't taken the MCAT, but have a gap 3.73. I have some ECs. But when should I start compiling my list? I hear some do it the year before, other three years before, and some a few months before. I feel like I should just wait but should I?

It doesn't take long to compile a list once you have an MCAT score, literally 20 minutes. You can familiarize yourself with the average stats of some schools that you are interested in beforehand but there really isn't much point until you have an MCAT score

 

[WedgeDawg]

After you have your mcat score

 

[miniman]

It doesn't take long to compile a list once you have an MCAT score, literally 20 minutes. You can familiarize yourself with the average stats of some schools that you are interested in beforehand but there really isn't much point until you have an MCAT score

Yeah, that's what I thought. Mind you it did take me about 2 hours to figure out that if I lift my stats a bit and have an average MCAT score I will have 12-15% chance to getting into UNC-med... (my dream)

 

[miniman]

After you have your mcat score

Again, it makes sense. I just wanted to make sure as I don't want to be behind my peers! 🙂