<p>Oh, wow. Nice…and oops, I meant I had the minimum ACT score to apply</p>
<p>for those of you admitted, are you for sure going to do it? I don’t know yet I’m going to visit soon but for now everything’s up in the air.</p>
<p>I haven’t decided yet. It’s looking like it though…since I just found out I got wait-listed to University of Chicago…</p>
<p>I haven’t decided yet. It’s looking like it though…since I just found out I got wait-listed to University of Chicago… what about you?</p>
<p>Hey guys! So ive been accepted to med scholars. I was just wondering of any body is already in it an what their opinion of it is. Is is hard to maintain a 3.8 mom GPA ect?</p>
<p>Hey all,</p>
<p>I’m faced with a “good” dilemma.</p>
<p>I was recently named as one of Clemson’s 13 National Scholars. The scholarship includes full tuition, room and board, books, personal expenses, and a 6 week Europe trip the summer after freshman year (including classes at Oxford). It’s also much more than a scholarship- it’s an elite program where the scholars really become a “community” (there’s even a retreat before school starts) and have many special opportunities available. The scholars are guided all through college to reach their post-graduation goals.</p>
<p>I was also accepted to SLU’s Med Scholars program. Since I’m about 90% sure about becoming a physician, it seems like a great opportunity. In addition, I received the presidential scholarship, which is full tuition. However, I would still have to pay room and board (which is surprisingly expensive…10,000/yr) plus books and other supplies.</p>
<p>I’m so confused! I’m leaning towards Clemson, but simply because I wanted to be down south. But is it stupid to give up automatic admission to med school? I just can’t seem to look at this objectively.</p>
<p>It’s not automatic admission to medical school; you have to maintain certain GPA requirements (3.5, I think) and also successfully pass an interview after sophomore year.</p>
<p>Does any one know why the ranking of SLU Medical School drops from 63 (last year) to 75 (now)?</p>
<p>Is anyone planning to attend the program this fall?</p>
<p>Hey,
I just signed up for CC so I could get some opinions on Med Scholars.
xD
I for one am planning to attend this fall. I talked to family friends who go there and did a ton of research. I feel that it’s a fantastic opportunity, esp. considering how hard med school admission is nowadays.</p>
<p>Hi amaka56 and xD
I am planning to attend this fall too.</p>
<p>amaka56, can you please post any results from Med Scholars? What is “CC” you assigned up for?</p>
<p>Ok, Im an international student who surprisingly enough, got invited for an interview. I went there in early march (I know I did a late interview) but my stats are good (40 on MCAT, gpa of 3.7).
1- Do u think that being invited for an interview is a good sign of my acceptance?
2- If I interviewed on march 8th, when should I be expecting a answer?
3- How many international do they take every year?</p>
<p>This would be a late reply to the original post but I shared a piece of knowledge as a sLU parent since it is revalent to the selection of SLU and other colleges. John Hopkins is a top university and their Biomedical Engineering is a tough program too. The question is can you keep a 3.5 at John Hopkins knowing all the students there are as bright if not smarter than you are? My best friend’s son went there. His son graduated but with a GPA under 3.0. I think that is an impressive grade for engineering but it is a bad grade for any medical school admission. Honestly that ruins his dream to a med school. My point here is not to scare you but to suggest you to do a realistic self checvk. Also many years ago a co-worker’s son went to John Hopkins and graduated with top of his class so he did a MD PHD at WashU. So you see, it is very different to assess yourself because you think you are “the best” from your high school but everybody who goes to John Hopkins are! </p>
<p>Many SLU Med Scholars gave up top universities – Stanford, Berkeley, Duke, Vanderbilt, Emory, just to name a few. This is the schools that my girl and her friends gave up. So you should expect at SLU these student to be very intelligent and competitive. However, SLU does not curve the grade to intentionally filter out students. They can all get good grade. If you keep up the grade, especially during the freshman year, you should have a very good chance from then on. Consider at any university: if you get a 3.0 the first year, how hard must you work in order to pull the grade up to 3.5? It is a simple math calculation. So the grade problem is not a SLU problem. It is up to the student.</p>
<p>tony888, is your daughter planning to apply out?</p>
<p>My daughter does not plan to apply out. First, applying-out will forgo your right to enter SLU medical school. That seems to defeat the original purpose of coming here. I heard stories that some applied out and moved on to different or better ranked med schools. Some did not get into any. ouch! Some came back after re-applying back to SLU. I know somebody who is thinking about applying out but that is due to financial reason. And a friend’s classmate got bounced off the med scholar but stayed in the regular premed. He ended up going to a highly regarded med school too. So you can see, the med scholar program is a sweet deal but the SLU regular premed itself is also very worthy. </p>
<p>So far my daughter is doing well. Hopefully the tough scenario is over. Her grade was not all perfect. A few thoughts came to mind as I answered a private inquiry. If you are a SLU med scholar, try to get top grades in Freshman year. If you get all A’s or close to 3.9 GPA, you will have enough support/cushion to cover the 2 B’s. or 3 B’s if that occurs. You can do a spreadsheet to do some “what if” thinking. But in short, I would just say if you have A’s in freshman, you will be much safer. The early A’s can give you confidence and keep your boat float and above 3.5 GPA. On the other said, if you get 3.6 the freshman year, you can lose the battle if you get a few B’s later. This is just simple math, not SLU specific. I don’t think SLU tries to make it hard. The bad grade scenario can occur wherever you go.</p>
<p>@ stephen: What do you mean by results? And by CC i meant college confidential.
Sorry for the confusion.</p>
<p>and thank you so much for your feedback tony888. 
I also chose SLU over Duke simply because i didn’t want to risk not getting a high enough gpa. I prefer security over prestige right now and that too, SLU med school is not all that bad. Heck, getting into any US med school is a great accomplishment.
Just curious… did you happen to see any correlation between grades in SLU science classes and your Daughters respective scores on her Science AP Tests? </p>
<p>Thanks again and good luck to your daughter. :)</p>
<p>I can’t say she had the strongest science background from high school. She said her AP Chem was not good but she ace the SLU general chemistry. She likes biology and she did very well on ap bio and principle of bio. That is where her freshman A’s from. She was great on statistics. All freshman classes should be okay for A’s. The challenges can be from the lab and 2nd year organic chem and bio. That is the little I know. Good luck to your study there.</p>
<p>Hi amaka56, thanks for your response. Please ignore the word “results”. I thought you have joined a discuss group for Medical Scholars only at SLU, so I would like to know any feed back “results” from that forum. Sorry for the confusion.</p>
<p>Thanks tony888 for your great feedback. One question about the housing at SLU? any suggestion to choose the on compus housing for Medical Scholars?</p>