<p>There’s a need for primary care physicians in underserved and rural areas . . . and that need may or may still exist when you eventually graduate.</p>
<p>As for your other question, there is no such thing as a “so so” medical school in this country. If and when you get to that point, you’ll be lucky to get into med school ANYWHERE in the U.S. - they’re all excellent. Yes, some are better known than others, but that has nothing to do with the quality of the medical education you’d receive.</p>
<p>your completely right thats true. getting into a less known medical school is a thousand times better than none i suppose? do med schools every give scholarships and need based aid? or is it always just student loans?</p>
<p>There is FA at some, merit at some. If you want to go to med school, it is not a choice based on those attributes since it is not something that is sitting out there for you to count on.</p>
<p>You need to assume fullpay at most schools if you are considering med school 5 years from now. You will only know whether you get any money just before you enter the med school, i.e., March or April of 2018.</p>
<p>Your application decisions are more based on where you can get in rather than where you can get the money. If you have 40+ score and 3.8+ GPA, some may give you some money.</p>
<p>You should read posts on this thread. People just started discussing debt.</p>
<p>i dont understand…bc of obamacare that will probs be passed soon, the primary care physicians will have to take in more patients in order to earn the same amount of money right? and so that means many more medical school ppl will wanna go into specialties which pay more money. there will be a shortage of primary care physicians then…so will their salary go up or down from that? correct me if im wrong.</p>
<p>this is kinda really off topic but im sorta confused and itll apply to me since thats what i wanna do? thanks!</p>
<p>No one has a crystal ball but I would consider dodgermom’s post 19 quite valid. </p>
<p>There are many pushing for lower rung people to take on the role of doctors in order to reduce the shortage. This may be in the form of nurse practitioners or Physician Assistants which means the shortage may not necessarily materialize.</p>
<p>soo…are there really any benefits to being a doctor over a physician’s assistant? besides a slightly high level of authority? but youre still doig basically the same thing</p>
<p>well both do like checkups and usually like PA primary care just helps out the primary care doctor right?
are you one by any chance? loll
if i were to be a PA, i can choose any undergrad major right? then 2 years of PA school? and then…how many years of residency before i can actually become on? can i go to PA school right after undergrad?</p>
<p>you can graduate medical school with no or little to no debt at all. For undergrad go to a state school that would only cost 5000 a year. now im sure that almost every parent can afford to pay 5000 a year for tuition but in the rare case they cannot get a job. Then go to a state medical school 25000 a year but parents can pay 5000 like in undergrad so 20000 a year after 4 years 80000. so all you have is $80,000 in debt. and some medical schools even offer a combined MD-PHD program and if your able to get into one of those they give you a full scholarship and some even give you money. so there you have it all you have to do is go to a state collage and medical school and you’ll only have $80000 of debt and if you go to a state college and get into a MD-PHD program you’ll Graduate college and medical school with no debt at all</p>
<p>do ppl that go to just state medical schools still find like good, well off jobs? or is it a problem bc they didnt go to like a top 20 school? or is a medical school still medical school?</p>
<p>medical school dosent really impact where youll get a job its more towards where you do your residency training. meaning you could go to a state school and then go to a good residency and youll get a great job or vice versa go to a ivy league school and go to a bad residency and not get a good job… it all depends on how well you do in medical school to where you go for residency</p>
<p>soo gettinga 4.0 gpa at a state school is better than a 3.0 at an ivy bc thats what they look at when they send you ot a residency place?
also, what if i had a 4.0 at a state school for undergrad, but another person had a 3.0 at harvard? which person would medical schools pick? and like mcat scores were same?</p>
<p>Look, Jenny, they’re not idiots . . . they’ll know that a 4.0 at Harvard is harder to achieve than at Never-Heard-Of-You State U. And they’ll also know that a 4.0 in engineering is harder to achieve than a 4.0 in basket weaving. And that may (or may not!) make a difference. But all you can do is do the best work you can at whatever school you attend . . . don’t try to game the system by finding “the school” (or “the major”) that’ll give you a boost in med school admissions.</p>
<p>If, come next April, you have a choice between a liberal arts college with an 85% med school admissions rate, and a giant state school with an admit rate closer to 50%, and they’re equally affordable . . . then go with the LAC. But what will matter in the end is the quality of your work, not anyone else’s, so that lower admit rate really isn’t determinative. I’d guess you’ll probably get more premed support at the school with the higher admit rate, and that’s always nice . . . but it’s a luxury, not a necessity.</p>
<p>i would actually argue that a person who has a 4.0 at a state school has a better change than someone that has a 3.0 at an ivy. medical schools want a gpa of <3.5 so the state school guy is better off.
Something you should keep in mind though is that medical schools dont compare you to people at different colleges, they compare you to people in your own college. they want you to be the best at your school. in a sense (as crazy as this is gonna sound) your only competing with people in your own school for medical school. not with people in other schools.because they just want to see that your the best that you can be and you exausted your resources.
this is what medical schools typically are looking for:
gpa>3.5
top 10%
high mcat score
research
shadowing
hospital volunteer work
now i can almost guarantee you that if you go to a state school and get a 4.0 gpa, top mcat score, research that got published, shadowed a few doctors, volunteered in a few hospitals, great essays, great letters of recommendation. youll get into almost any medical school! notice though how the only thing on that list that related to the college you were at was the gpa… all medical schools expect you to do at the college your in is get a high gpa. now getting a high gpa is a requirement at both collges.
the only time a ivy league student would have an advantage over a state school student is if both there gpa’s are identical.which is unlikely because while getting a 4.0 at a state school is done oftenly, getting a 4.0 at Harvard is really hard.</p>