<p>Yeah, think Penn, Dartmouth, Columbia</p>
<p>Were your volunteering at hospital or clinic? Were you shadowing different docs?</p>
<p>Various clinics with a mix of primary and specialty care but that doesn’t matter. Pursue clinical experiences that you are interested in since they all have the same value to admissions committees. What you should be focusing on with this program is developing a well thought-out plan for what you are going to do with your time and seriously pursuing a field/subject area that you’re passionate about.</p>
<p>Did anybody save a copy of the application essays from last year? They’re not out yet, but I’m mildly curious as to what questions they would ask. I’m not actually going to apply because I’m not even a college sophomore</p>
<p>My High school grades and ACT score are average since I was coming to school on a Baseball scholarship and wasn’t really focused on school. I have a 3.7 GPA (a lot of my bio major classes complete) at a good university with shadow experience, a lot of community service, and multiple long term mission trips of 5+ months. I have recommendation letters from former and sitting US congressman. What are my chances??</p>
<p>@tcrbb19 </p>
<p>Are you referring to the Sinai Flex Med program?</p>
<p>First of all, LOR must from your teacher, congressman does not do too much good.
Secondly, you can assess yourself, if you were to apply for an ivy school such as Brown or Penn, can you get in with your stats? If yes, you have a chance, if no, then your chance is slim.</p>
<p>What is your ACT? If below 30, I think you should not waste your money to apply.</p>
<p>For me, I’m at Tufts, and got in with a 29 on the ACT. My GPA is a 3.73 at the moment. Am I wasting my money applying?</p>
<p>You certainly can try, but do not count on it. Nevertheless, it has lot to do with which state you are coming from. For CA, I think you have to forget about it. But if you are from those rare states like AR, you have a better chance. That is for the State SOMs, Mount Sinai? Your chances are much less.</p>
<p>I’m from OH</p>
<p>think more along NEOMED, Toledo and Akron lines and you will have a better chance.</p>
<p>I think Toledo is out of your reach, in fact almost all programs are out of your reach</p>
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<p>The above are the MINIMUMs for Toledo and the actual admitted students have much higher scores.</p>
<p>Actually you’re incorrect. I’m not sure where you pulled that information from, but Toledo’s MEDStart page says this: </p>
<p>"3. An overall undergraduate GPA of 3.7 or higher with a science GPA of 3.5 or higher at the time of application is strongly recommended.</p>
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<li> An ACT score of 29 or higher or an SAT score of 1900 or higher is strongly recommended." </li>
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<p>Taken from: <a href=“MedStart Program”>A to Z List; </p>
<p>So I appreciate your feedback, but I would much prefer you provide accurate information for me to base my decisions off of. </p>
<p>Ok, if you can have your conclusion, you should certainly try. Just let us know if you are successful.</p>
<p>I absolutely will. I would advise you, additionally, to not dash student’s hopes by providing false information about programs and their requirements. Not only is that unprofessional, it is falsification of information, and is punishable by up to 5-10 years in prison. </p>
<p>falsify information?</p>
<p>Here is where I got my info</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.bioe.eng.utoledo.edu/undergraduate/programs/bsmd.html”>http://www.bioe.eng.utoledo.edu/undergraduate/programs/bsmd.html</a></p>
<p>Don’t pump up too much your confidence, you are way below other bs/md’s score. If you are HYP quality you maybe able to get in, but you are far from it.</p>
<p>FWIW, you guys are talking about two different programs. @artloversplus is using numbers from the combined BS/MD program in bioengineering (i.e. high school seniors applying) while @theNDhopeful44 is using their MEDstart program, a program for college juniors to get accepted to med school at the end of junior year and complete senior year stress free (as well as bypass MCAT).</p>
<p>MEDstart is definitely closer to flexmed than a BS/MD is but I wouldn’t want to be applying with bare minimum stats to any sort of program.</p>
<p>I find it very hard to believe that a 0.1 difference in GPA (3.7 to 3.8) would be an important factor in making a decision of whether to admit or reject an applicant. </p>
<p>For MEDstart, you’re right, those numbers are not minimums, for the BS/MD program a 3.7 would result in a rejection.</p>
<p>Ok, I’m talking about MEDStart. I’m a sophomore in college, also looking into Tufts early assurance program as well</p>
<p>I just discovered this program as a high school senior. I’ve wanted to become a doctor because I have very serious passions about the humanistic side of health care and health disparities. As an African, health disparities have always been something more than statistics for me, so I’m really passionate about creating meaningful change in my community.</p>
<p>But my intellectual passions have always been History and English. I have been very successful in science classes, but the classes that really excite me have always been in Social Studies and English. I’d rather engage in historical research(I’d love to) than research in a lab setting. I’ve been stressed thinking about how I’m going to combine my intellectual interest with my call-to-service until I discovered this program. I don’t want to get my hopes up, but its almost perfect for the type of student I am; skilled in sciences and wants to become a doctor but LOVES the humanities.</p>
<p>Right now I’m sitting at a 3.9 HS GPA, a 33 on the ACT. I’m taking AP Bio and AP Chem as we speak and I finished the first semester with an A. I have confidence in my academic abilities, but what type of extracurriculars should I engage in between now and Sophomore Year of college to make me competitive for this program? I have already done hours of tutoring and athletics but I doubt thats hardly enough for something like this.
Oh and I don’t know where I;m going to school yet but I’ve applied to most schools in the Top 20.</p>