<p>No. There are people discussing whether they have an admission anywhere without specifically discussing which schools they got into and where they will be attending. Sometimes they mention attending interviews but the information in those threads is kept a lot more private.</p>
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<p>There is an entire website dedicated to this: <a href=“http://www.mdapplicants.com/”>http://www.mdapplicants.com/</a></p>
<p>You can run filters and search on many different criteria. </p>
<p>Alright thanks @plumazul , and after attending open house at Vanderbilt yesterday, I heard getting a 4.0 GPA is basically impossible for premed students, so what GPA should I be aiming for then if Im gunning for a top 10 med school? a 3.9? </p>
<p>@Phoenix55555 no, you aim for a 4.0 :-bd </p>
<p>“and after attending open house at Vanderbilt yesterday, I heard getting a 4.0 GPA is basically impossible for premed students”
-Well, my D. was NOT 4.0, she was 3.98. All 3 “A-” were in singing classes of her Music minor where she was singing in duets with the Music Majors who have had voice coaching before college. Frankly, I have no idea how she pulled those A-, but she had developed a very nice voice without a single voice class.<br>
But anyway, 3.98 did NOT hurt her competing with 4.0’s at all. She got into 50% of schools that she applied. Maybe she would have gotten into couple others, but she withdrew after being put on hold. Also, 3.98 did NOT prevent her from getting the top pre-med award (monetary), the only one awarded to the top pre-med in her class.<br>
D. did NOT go to Vandy, but I believe that everything is possible at any place. Also D. was extremely busy in UG, while doing all of her EC’s during school year, was on board of her sorority, never took a single summer class, was working and had 2 minors. None of the ECs were possible to obtain during summers, so she had to do them during school year and all were for long term, lasting for few years.</p>
<p>So, basically with a 3.9 GPA, 35 MCAT, decent ECs and research, anyone can get into a top 20 med school?</p>
<p>“So, basically with a 3.9 GPA, 35 MCAT, decent ECs and research, anyone can get into a top 20 med school?”
-I do not know about anyone. I can only tell that my own D. with college GPA=3.98, 35 MCAT, ECs, research got accepted to couple top 20s while applying only to 8 Med. schools all within 5.5 hours distance from home. She might have gotten to more, but she withdrew after being put on hold. Why - she did not care for location (her #1 criteria) and she did not care for the student body (based strictly on her impression during interview). She was also put on hold at another (non-ranked) place which is probably much harder to get into than top 20s and she withdrew from there also since she felt that the program does not fit her. </p>
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<p>Not if you screw up the interview</p>
<p>^Hard to imagine screwing up one interview after another and again. </p>
<p>Thats true, but I thought the question was asking about a top 20 medical school in singularity, sorry.</p>
<p>Ahh alright, thx @MiamiDAP , and btw Im from Florida too :p</p>
<p>Btw, this might be a bad question, but what types of research should I do in college? And how would I get research published in like a journal or something like that, are there programs out there I should attend ? Especially since I hear research is extremely important nowadays. </p>
<p>Research is important at research-oriented medical schools. (Not all med schools are research-oriented.)</p>
<p>There are 2 basic types of research: basic “bench” science (i.e. “wet” labs) and clinical or applied research.</p>
<p>The exact subject matter of your research doesn’t matter so much as the breadth and depth of your involvement. (It’s better to spend an intense year doing an independent project of your own than to spend 4 years washing glassware and prepping reagents under the supervision of a grad student.) </p>
<p>Research gets published in a peer-reviewed journal appropriate to the topic of the research. (IOW, behavioral neuroscience research isn’t going to show up in the American Journal of Cardiology.) </p>
<p>Journal publication is an increasingly fraught field. There are competing publication modalities and journals range from journals that are literally pay-to-play (Seriously, there are journals out there with very serious sounding names that will publish anything for a fee) to a high impact, peer-reviewed journal like Nature, PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Science) and Science. Your PI will know what journals are both reputable and appropriate for your research.</p>
<p>Your best opportunities to get involved in research will be at your own undergrad institution. Additionally, there are summer research programs available. Some are sponsored by individual universities. Some are sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) or Amgen (Amgen Scholars). Typically applicants to these highly competitive summer programs are expected to have their intro level coursework finished, some upper level coursework finished and some previous laboratory training, often in specific techniques.</p>
<p>"Ahh alright, thx @MiamiDAP , and btw Im from Florida too "
-Common mistake, we are very far from Florida.<br>
In regard to research, depending on location, the best chances are at your own UG (based on D’s experience). Also, depending on what each Med. School is looking for, D. did not have publication, but she was interning for 3 years and had poster presentation. So, in her case, publication was not required. Yes, while in Med. School, they are looking for publication, it is time consuming thing, and not because of writing of manuscript, but because there are many others involved and they are very busy people. And if you are actually running the project, then you need to know absolutely everything, including getting approvals from everybody and the name(s) of the journals to send your manuscript.</p>
<p>@MiamiDAP , just wondering, what does poster presentation mean? and what did your D intern in?</p>
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<p>I am glad that my kid never come close to thinking about HYPS. She said now (4th year Med. Student) that in general (not limited strctly to HYSP, but including many Elite and very large number of privates), she would end up among kids just like in her HS. Do not get me wrong. She absolutely loved her tiny private very rigorous HS, loved it in all aspects, academic, relations with teachers, social, loved campus, everything. However, she knew that kids who went there were much more intense and ambitious than average HS student body. Now that she is at private Med. School with good number of classmates who graduated from HYPS and other very top colleges (Berkeley is the top number), she see that her choice of public in-state college has widen her social horizon which was her goal all along. I am talking about real diversity, not racial or socioeconomic, personality diversity where not everybody is so intense and goal oriented and ambitious. While her Honors college has 100% placement into Med. School, D. specifically was seeking students outside of pre-med crowd and it was a big reason for her to be in sorority and having Music Minor. She see herself (and was told by many superiors) that she is sociallty more mature (while being one of the youngest in her class) and she has more developed human skills (noted even by several patients). Being among so-called “intellectual peer” all the time has it’s flip side. There are exceptions, there are kids with very wide range of interest who made sure to pursue thier passions and were involved with different crowds. However, I would disagree that in general HYPS crownd is “well adjusted”, with some exceptions, in most cases it is not true. BTW, this assessment came from my D. who happened to graduate as a top pre-med (received monetary award, otherwise we would not know), who also happen to think that top academic caliber is simply not enough in medicine.</p>
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<p>A “good GPA, MCAT, research and ECs” as discussed, will probably get you AN INTERVIEW at some med schools. During the interview, your interviewer will be thinking “would I want this person taking care of me when I get sick?” Very, very different skill set. </p>
<p>Thus, holistic admissions is really holistic, and many applicants do not get admitted after the interview despite stellar “stats”. Spending a lot of time in hospitals gets you familiar with the culture, and helps with the interview. Coming off like a competitive driven stressed out pre-med or as socially inept will not cut it. </p>
<p>Interview practice can be very helpful, ask you pre-med advisor or committee how. </p>
So after the first semester, my GPA isn’t as high as I would like due to a couple A-'s and B+'s (3.5). Should I be worried if my GPA ends up around there, or will I be fine with a 3.5 ish for med schools?