Getting into Vanderbilt Med?

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<p>I'm quite certain Vanderbilt is where I eventually want to go for medical school. And I have a decent shot at getting into Vanderbilt for undergrad study but dorm life really isn't for me (I'm a little OCD and sharing a bathroom with 100 other people makes me want to vomit lol). Assuming I did well would I be able to get into Vanderbilt with a degree from UCF (either the main campus or the Honors College)? Or does UCF simply lack the prestige for me to be realistically considered (by realistically I mean 29-34 on my MCAT, a GPA of like 3.5-3.8, etc)? How about a degree from Rollins College?</p>

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<p>you’re totally delusional if you think a 29-34 or 3.5-3.8 will be good enough for vandy med. try 35+ and 3.8+ and maybe they’ll glance at your app. </p>

<p>and if you’re not from a tippy top school, they couldn’t care less where you went for your undergrad.</p>

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<p>Yikes! Well there goes that.</p>

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<p>median GPA for accepted med students at Vandy is about a 3.83 GPA for both overall and in sciences.</p>

<p>Vandy…Avg MCAT 11.7Q (Which I think would be about a 35 MCAT)</p>

<p>From a website that explains scoring…
Your MCAT score can range anywhere from a 1 (low) to a 15 (killer) on any of the three multiple-choice sections:</p>

<pre><code>* Physical Sciences

  • Biological Sciences
  • Verbal Reasoning
    </code></pre>

<p>The Writing Section essays are both scored twice between a 1 (low) and a 6 (high) and averaged. Then, the raw score is converted to an alphabetic scale where a “J” is the lowest and a “T” is the highest. Strange, but true.</p>

<p>Most often, the MCAT score is reported as an average of your three multiple-choice scores with the writing letter behind it. Like this: 10M. You’ll have to do better than that, though, if you’d like to get into one of the top schools in the country.</p>

<p>See the list below for the average MCAT scores of 25 of the country’s most illustrious medical schools (arranged alphabetically). As you can see, you’ll need to fall somewhere in the 11-12 range for the multiple-choice MCAT score and a P or Q for the writing MCAT score.</p>

<p>What’s a Good MCAT Score By School?</p>

<ol>
<li>Baylor: 11.7 Q</li>
<li>Brown: 11.7 Q</li>
<li>Columbia University: 11.7 Q</li>
<li>Cornell: 11.7 Q</li>
<li>Dartmouth: 11 Q</li>
<li>Duke: 11.7 Q</li>
<li>Emory: 11.7 Q</li>
<li>Harvard: 11.9 Q</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins: 11.8 Q

<ol>
<li>Mayo Medical School: 11 Q</li>
<li>New York University: 11.7 Q</li>
<li>Ohio State University: 11 Q</li>
<li>Stanford: 11.7 Q</li>
<li>University of California – Los Angeles: 11.9 Q</li>
<li>University of California San Diego: 11.7 Q</li>
<li>University of California- San Francisco: 11.9 P</li>
<li>University of Chicago: 11.7 Q</li>
<li>University of Colorado: 11 Q</li>
<li>University of Michigan: 11.7 Q</li>
<li>University of Pittsburgh:11.7 Q</li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania: 11.7 Q</li>
<li>University of Southern California: 11 Q</li>
<li>University of Virginia: 11 Q</li>
<li>Vanderbilt: 11.7 Q</li>
<li>Washington University in St. Louis: 12.5 Q</li>
</ol></li>
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<p>When I looked over various med school admittance stats for my son, I saw that to have a good chance, you need at least a 3.7 GPA in sciences and overall.</p>

<p>That’s probably why some people choose a school where they know that they have a good chance of having a high GPA.</p>

<p>And I have a decent shot at getting into Vanderbilt for undergrad study but dorm life really isn’t for me (I’m a little OCD and sharing a bathroom with 100 other people makes me want to vomit lol).</p>

<p>Well, then you may need to consider schools where you’ll have en-suite bathrooms.</p>

<p>How are you going to handle sharing a bedroom?</p>

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<p>Average entry scores for Vanderbilt Med School 2000-2009</p>

<p><a href=“https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/admissions/average-mcat-and-gpa[/url]”>https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/admissions/average-mcat-and-gpa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>The UG school isn’t all that critical honestly though it does play a small role. If you
can get to the top end of your projection and/or have some other interesting factors, then at least you can at least hope for a legitimate chance. Look at the list below and you will find an awful lot of regular Universities represented including quite a few Florida schools (UF, USF, Fla Atl, Fla AM)</p>

<p>4 year Cumulative Undergrad breakdown</p>

<p><a href=“https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/admissions/undergraduate-schools-represented[/url]”>https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/admissions/undergraduate-schools-represented&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Actually, I’m fine with that. I’ve done it before and I know I can do it again (like I said only a little OCD) but bathrooms… I just can’t. Don’t get me wrong sharing it with anywhere from 1-5 people would actually be ok (done it before) but when I just think about 40-100 people sharing a bathroom I turn green.For example, gym bathrooms make me sick.</p>

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<p>You’d get a better quality of responses in the Medical School forum, or on forums like SDN. </p>

<p>Regardless, you probably know very well that medical school admissions is HEAVILY numbers based. Realistically, unless you’re aiming for DO schools, any score in the 20s on the MCAT isn’t going to get you any interviews. A strong GPA and science GPA (a 3.5 may get you into medical school - just not necessarily medical schools you’ve heard of), a solid MCAT score, and LORs would get you an interview for an average medical school.</p>

<p>For a T20 medical school like Vanderbilt, you need to have done something beyond that. Usually, that partakes in the form of significant research or something of that nature. This isn’t the BS volunteering students do to attempt at getting in high school - the work has to be serious and show accomplishment.</p>

<p>The above would probably get you an interview - the rest is up to the adcoms.</p>

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<p>It’s very rare for 40 to share a college bathroom. On our recent college tour, just about every school had an option of sharing a bath with fewer than 5. So do check out the situation before dismissing any college.</p>

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<p>^I have done absolutely MASSIVE amounts of research on the subject on College ******* and in most schools I’m looking at (Haverford, Holy-Cross, Amherst, Davidson, Vanderbilt, etc) most the bathrooms are shared by floor, by hall or communal with an average of around 120-150 students per building and 3 floors per building. There are options for suites and apartments at most of them but the vast majority are only open to upperclassmen and even then are usually the first ones gone (and in a lottery system based on seniority, that doesn’t bode well for most and I’m not the optimistic type so…).</p>