<p>Hi!</p>
<p>I'm currently a junior in a competitive high school and my goal is to become a doctor. I want to go to a program in which I can avoid taking the MCAT. </p>
<p>G.P.A.: 3.2
SAT: 1820 </p>
<p>I have many extra curriculars and over 400 hours of volunteering. </p>
<p>Some things I am interested in are:
-6/7/8 year programs in the United States
-Schools in the Carribean
-Going to India and returning to take the USMLE</p>
<p>Please tell me if you have any suggestions for what would be good for me.</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>Browse the sections of the forum that deal with Med school and admissions issues. </p>
<p>Don’t be afraid of the MCAT. Avoidance isn’t the best way to matriculate or graduate medical school. Accomplish all of the entrance criteria so that you are well prepared. </p>
<p>G.P.A.: 3.2
SAT: 1820
aren’t stats that will let you into a BS/MD program.</p>
<p>Your only choice is to find a college that doesn’t have weed out premed core classes and get the highest GPA you can, along with preparing to take the MCAT senior rather than junior year, or even after senior year, so that you can focus on prepping. A college that’s quite good with that is Juniata College in PA. About half students go there for Health Science grad school prep and the college has an excellent track record of taking B+ students and preparing them for med school and other health program entrance.</p>
<p>What’s in-state for you? What’s your parents’ budget?</p>
<p>For the MCAT or the premed core, you’ll need: 2 semesters each of English, calculus, physics, chemistry, and biology, plus 1 semester each of psychology, sociology, a diversity-focused class, neuroscience (recommended), biochem (recommended). You will need a very high GPA so you’ll need to learn GPA management very quickly. You can choose any major where you can perform extremely well (it can be economics, physics, French, music…) and add the premed core.</p>
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I’m currently a junior in a competitive high school and my goal is to become a doctor. I want to go to a program in which I can avoid taking the MCAT.</p>
<p>G.P.A.: 3.2
SAT: 1820</p>
<p>I have many extra curriculars and over 400 hours of volunteering.
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<p>With those stats you will not get admitted into a BS/MD program. The students who are accepted are ones who have such high stats that the school can be confident that the student would have done well on the MCAT. If they admitted students with your stats then they would be accepting a student who likely would not do well on the MCAT nor would likely have top GPA as an undergrad.</p>
<p>What state are you in? How much will your parents pay? </p>
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Going to India and returning to take the USMLE
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<p>What? The USMLE is a multi-step exam that is taken in steps during med school. you cant skip it and take the exams later.</p>
<p>Actually, you can take the USMLE after med school. My mom went to med school in Afghanistan and then took the USMLE when she came to America.</p>
<p>*Not sure if this can apply to everyone though, because she was not a natural-born US citizen</p>
<p>^^</p>
<p>that is a different situation. When you go to med school in the US, you take the multi-step USMLE at a few times during med school. STEP 1 is taking at the end of year 2.</p>
<p>I guess I should have asked, what is the point of taking the USMLE after going to India for awhile. You’d want to take it when info is fresh in your mind.</p>
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Schools in the Carribean
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<p>too risky, especially now that MD and DO students in the US will be competing for the same residencies.</p>