<p>The 2015 application season is starting. The prospective applicants may use this thread to start their discussions.</p>
<p>Hey guys,
Anyone know about any changes to the current/new programs (esp. bc of mcat)?
i.e. year compressing (7 to 8) and the like?</p>
<p>Where all are you guys looking at applying?? </p>
<p>S/O to high school seniors! This is it, the homestretch of your high school career. Try to have fun with the college app process…it can get tedious at times, but in a few months, you’ll be past this. </p>
<p>Drexel is a free application on rolling admissions. The BSMD is also a free application and is due 12/1/14. If you get an interview with the med school, then you pay $135. It’s a great program(I’m going into my 2nd year UG); you should all consider it. Inbox if you have any questions 
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<p>Hey Polymathy. I’m a current student at Drexel BSMD. Our advisors did not release a statement yet about the new MCAT requirements. The current is a 10/9/10. So they’re advising to aim for that proportional score in each section. </p>
<p>I think Rice/Baylor added a MCAT requirement to last year’s class, so keep in mind they may announce their MCAT cutoff sometime</p>
<p>To prospective applicants: in my humble opinion, job shadowing for hundreds or thousands of hours is not that beneficial. Sure, if you have no idea about what life as a doctor is like it may be useful, but when days stretch into years of daily shadowing… I find that those hours spent observing someone doing their job could be used to better society and get even more interesting and useful medical experiences. Become an EMT, a CNA, a hospital volunteer, make your own nonprofit, develop your own public health research project… just know that job shadowing is NOT everything. So, if you’re desperate because you only have 30 hours of shadowing, don’t sweat! As long as you know your own reasons for your interest in medicine, and as long as you can have intelligent conversations on healthcare, you can be alright! I’m almost ashamed to admit I only shadowed a neurologist for a day, but I grew up around medicine, knew from elementary school I wanted to be a physician, and had CNA experiences, and was very involved in other medical-related activities, so I knew healthcare well. Really, your own confidence is what’s important.</p>
<p>And have fun!!! Don’t bury yourself in college applications, or better yet, have fun with college applications! Have a life! Senior year! Woo! Good luck to everyone, and remember: to some extent, college admissions have luck as a factor! Looking back, I regret being so uptight about application season. High school will never come back!</p>
<p>Thank you @13riduggirala20‌. I sent some questions by inbox.</p>
<p>By the way, I heard that Penn State is no longer a 6 year program. Any thoughts on that? I believe that leaves UMKC and Neomed as the remaining 6 year options.</p>
<p>@polymathy
The people I know in those 6 year programs go both ways. A UMKC programee loves it and totally recommended it, however it’s practically exclusive to Missouri residents. I know someone who went to PennState’s 6yr, but they didn’t like the rushed nature. Also, she wanted to do a lot of extracurricular activities like FBLA, DECA, THON, and dance teams, so she prolonged her undergrad term by term and matriculated into med school at the ned of 4 years. </p>
<p>6 years is truly a rush…it means you have to take about 30-40 undergrad courses in 2 years. </p>
<p>What are peoples’ opinion on UMKC’s curriculum where students take some medical school courses during their undergrad years and some undergrad courses during their medical school years? Also, is it necessary to become an EMT or CNA if you already have a meaningful hospital volunteering experience in the operating room?</p>
<p>There aren’t any “requirements” in terms of EC activities. Each activity should be viewed as something that contributed to your overall perspective of medicine. We’re all super busy people, so just do stuff that you really enjoy and at the very least, you’ll have had some fun. I got into some med programs with neither EMT nor CNA, so not necessary unless you want to</p>
<p>What kind of SAT/ACT scores is competitive for this program?</p>
<p>@tdkeerthi I would say that having an SAT score of 1400+ and an ACT of 33/34 would be a good start.</p>
<p>In addition, it’s very possible for an OOS student to get into the UMKC program. In fact, I believe a good 15 seats are usually given to or set aside for them. The only caveat is that it is very expensive for OOS students, as is the case for many state schools.</p>
<p>Do some programs have a in-state bias?
For example, UAB emsap or Baylor2 Medical Track…</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure UAB has in state bias. So do UMKC, NEOCOM. Generally, the public schools are biased</p>
<p>I’m not sure about baylor2 but it openly has 5 spots. </p>
<p>can someone please chance me for BSMD:</p>
<p>Here are my stats:</p>
<p>Unweighted GPA: 3.9
Weighted GPA: 4.2
Class Rank: school does not rank, but should be in top 10%
Ethnicity: Indian Female
School Type: Public school in Southern California</p>
<p>ACT: 34
PSAT:217
SAT: 2160
SAT Math II: 780
SAT Chem: 770
AP (5): US history, Spanish lang, English lang, Calc BC, Psychology, World history, Environmental
AP (4): Chem, Bio</p>
<p>Senior year: AP Spanish culture, AP Eng Lit, AP Stat</p>
<p>Volunteer: Dr office - 200 hrs
: Hospital - 80 hrs
: Soup kitchen - 40 hrs</p>
<p>President of Science club
member of few other clubs</p>
<p>Research: some at university lab (nothing published)</p>
<p>Awards: Science awards at school and county level</p>
<p>Below is a list of colleges, I am planning to apply at least 10 which has best chances for me to get in:</p>
<p>Baylor University and Baylor College of Medicine
Boston University
Brooklyn College/SUNY-Downstate Medical Center
Brown
Case Western Reserve University
Drexel University
George Washington University
Illinois Institute of Technology/ Chicago
Northwestern University / Feinberg School of Medicine HPME
Penn State University/Jefferson Medical College
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute/Albany Medical College
Rice University/Baylor college of Medicine
Saint Louis University
Siena/Albany Medical College
Temple University
Union Graduate College and Albany Medical College
University of Alabama
University of Miami (HPME)
University of Rochester
UC San Diego
Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU)/VCU-SOM</p>
<p>Please suggest if I missed any other college. </p>
<p>Does anybody know the admission stats for Miami HPME?</p>
<p>Wow, just took a look at HPME supplement while trying to find the answer to @rmk123‌ . It’s a lot of work.</p>
<p>Class of 2015: we got this!</p>
<p>If you’re accepted into a program, is there any point in doing research? I mean, you’re basically accepted into med school once you’re in the program. </p>
<p>Hey guys
I’m currently a rising high school senior and am very interested in applying to a few accelerated premed programs (though not the crazy ones like in Brown). I just wanted to know what my chances are and how I could improve?</p>
<p>Ethnicity: Middle Eastern (Palestinian) - though I’m usually considered White/Caucasian
GPA - 3.95
Rank - Top 5-10%
SAT - 2250 Reading and Math (800 Math, 660 Reading, 790 Writing) - Will take it again and get at least 700 Reading guaranteed (I took the SAT last March and I’ve significantly improved this summer)
SAT II - Physics 760, US History 750, Math (1) 730, Biology (M) 740 --> planning on taking Math 2
AP’s - World History (4), Biology (4), US History (5), Physics B (5), Psychics C Mechanics (4).
During Senior year I’ll take AP Calc (AB and BC), AP Stats, and AP Lit</p>
<p>Extra Curriculars:
In-School -
ModelUN,
Mock Trial,
Forensics,
Model Congress,
SGA,
Science Olympiad,
and some sports activities
(in all of these activities I’ll have a leadership positions starting senior year)
I’m also starting a combined Debate and Public Speaking Club as soon as the school year starts</p>
<p>Outside of School -
Volunteer at 2 hospitals, each with 100+ hours,
Shadow 2 doctors in their private practices, one’s a cardiologist and the other a pediatrician (each of them are willing to give a good rec letter)
Shadow a Lab diagnostician
Member of the Youth Committee in my local community center (this committee serves over 1000 underprivileged youth a year with various events and programs), with 250+ hours
Also a teacher at the weekend school for my local community center (I teach children language and religion studies)
Starting an EMT course this fall, probably wont be state certified until January
I also did a 6 week summer program at Carnegie Mellon University after receiving the William Elliot Scholarship (covered around 10k$ in costs)</p>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>@thalamus‌ Where do you live? I heard Texas and Ohio have some pretty good BS/MD programs for instate residents. Also, which programs are you looking at?</p>