<p>my H. likes to use %%.
So, he calls D. 50% MD. In May of 2014, it will be 75%
You guessed it right, we are math’y type of people.</p>
<p>I would like to bring up the topic about how OOS students can pay IS tuition. This is very important to me, I think for many others as well.</p>
<p>How can I claim myself as residence after MS1? By claim I am financially independent? What happened if my parents still pay a portion of my COA? From OH website, it said “a student who has been financially self-sustaining through their 12 month review period”.</p>
<p>Kal, you said when your son interviewed there, you got this good news. The school told him?</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>I think there are a lot of variables that go into instate, the first being that the school takes OOS students. The second is there is an actual major difference in the cost.</p>
<p>Lets compare Texas and Pennsylvania.</p>
<p>Texas by law will not take more than 10% of non-residents and in many cases the schools may be upto 95% in state because admitted OOS don’t show up at the lower ranked schools.</p>
<p>However, if someone is admitted and shows upto University of Texas at Houston, I have been told that they convert them to instate in the first year itself. There is not a huge difference in tuitions like there might be in Alabama (I think OOS is 60k, tuition alone) but even then they do give many instate tuition scholarships. OTOH, one just needs to buy a condo or a piece of land in Texas for becoming instate. </p>
<p>In Pennsylvania, med schools are considered private. So the tuition ranges from 40-50k and in several schools the difference seems to be puny, like 5k when we are looking at 40k+ to start with. </p>
<p>I believe each state has a set of rules to be considered in state and how one might go about becoming in state. There is no single set of rules across board.</p>
<p>I know noone took 2015 MCAT yet. Based on your knowledge and experience, for sociology, psychology contents, do you think the intro courses are good enough? Or I have to take courses beyond intro classes?</p>
<p>Intro to sociology
Basic concepts for the systematic study of human interaction and social structure. Social groups, categories, and modern complex social systems. Deviance, social change, and system maintenance. Values, norms, socialization, roles, stratification, and institutions. Sociological analysis of selected areas of social life, such as the family, religion, large-scale organizations, minority relations, mass communications, and crime.</p>
<p>Intro to psychology
Systematic survey of the field of psychology, covering important general principles in the topics of psychological development, sensory processes, perception, motivation, emotion, learning, thinking, intelligence, aptitudes, social problems, and personality. </p>
<p>Thank you so much!</p>
<p>The official AMCAS 2015 Preview Guide has a list topics of to be covered in sociology and psychology on pp. 91-131</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.aamc.org/students/download/266006/data/2015previewguide.pdf[/url]”>https://www.aamc.org/students/download/266006/data/2015previewguide.pdf</a></p>
<p>You should see if there if appears to be enough congruency between the topics to be included on the exam and the topics covered in your courses and base your decision on that.</p>
<p>As you acknowledge, no here (or anywhere for that matter) has actually seen what the new Human Behavior section looks like.</p>
<p>The guide also includes 30 sample questions for the Human Behavior section on pp. 115-131</p>
<p>Thanks WOWM. The doc is very helpful and thank you for pointing the pages.
on pg116, quote:</p>
<p>"For each test form, you are likely to see questions distributed in the ways that are described below. These are the approximate percentages of questions you’ll see on a test form for each foundational concept and discipline</p>
<p>Foundational Concept:
6: 27%
7: 33%
8: 20%
9: 15%
10: 5%</p>
<p>Discipline:
Introductory psychology: 60%
Introductory sociology: 30%
Introductory biology: 10%"</p>
<p>So maybe intro courses are enough. We will see. </p>
<p>I don’t understand what those 6:27%, 7:33% … mean?
level 6, level 7? 6 questions?</p>
<p>It is telling you the weight for questions based on the section?</p>
<p>I have a question regarding the statistics class. I took a Statistics in community college while in HS. Will it be good enough for the MCAT?</p>
<p>My school offers: Statistics For Behavioral Science (taught by psychology dept) . Biostatistics (taught by bio dept). Should I take them for MCAT?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>The stats questions are contextural, and test your understanding of data interpretation. Not pure calculations. If you feel confident that you understand the basic tenets of statistics, the CC class ought to suffice.</p>
<p>Thanks WOWM. Congrats on your D!!!</p>
<p>I have a stupid question. You mentioned that your D will be ortho. Another student mentioned DO school. Seems to me they are all about bones. What’s the difference? I assume ortho is in MD path. But what do they do in terms of job function? Are they overlapped a bit or not at all?</p>
<p>DO = doctor of osteopathic medicine</p>
<p>[Osteopathic</a> medicine in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteopathic_medicine_in_the_United_States]Osteopathic”>Osteopathic medicine in the United States - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Osteology is the study of bones and the bony structures of the body (teeth). One can earn a PhD is osteology–which is a subspecialty within anthropology and/or archeology. It has not much to do with medicine.</p>
<p>Osteopathy is one type of medical training which leads to medical licensure as a physician. The other is allopathic medicine. Osteopaths can and do enter all the same medical specialties that allopathic (MD) physicians do. </p>
<p>Orthopedics is the branch of surgery that deals with the musculoskeletal system, including, bones, joints, cartilage, tendons, ligaments and their sheaths, nerves and blood supplies. Both MDs and DOs can be orthopedic surgeons.</p>
<p>They all sound similiar but really don’t have any overlap.</p>
<p>Since DO can be orthopedic surgeon, why the DO school bar is lower than MD? If they are orthopedic surgeons, they are doing the same as MD’s orthopedic surgeon’s?</p>
<p>Current DO grads have 2 options for their residency. DO programs maintain their own separate AOA-accredited residency programs for all specialties. DO grads can also apply for any ACGME-accredited residencies if they take the USMLE in addition to the COMLEX. (OTOH, MDs cannot take the COMLEX and apply to AOA accredited residency programs.) </p>
<p>However, in 2015, the residency process is being unified. All residency programs will be accredited by ACGME and every med school grad (DO or MD) can apply for any residency. COMLEX or USMLE scores will be equally acceptable.</p>
<p>I think there are several reason why DO school have lower MCAT scores (GPAs are pretty much identical to MD schools). The biggest one is there is less familiarity with DOs than MDs. In some regions, MDs and DOs are both equally common and people are familiar with them. But in other areas, DOs are very scarce. (Which has lots to with the distribution of DO schools and not the quality of the education provided) and people aren’t quite sure if a osteopathic doctor is the functionally the same a allopathic doctor. (They are.) Also DOs do not exist outside of the US, so people who recently immigrated to the US are unfamiliar with osteopaths.</p>
<p>A secondary reason is that the DO philosophy is more focussed on holistic treatment and primary care and so tend to attract a differnt kind of applicant than do allopathic schools.</p>
<p>In terms of sheer numbers, DO schools attract the same number of applicants per available seat as do MD schools.</p>
<p>Appreciate your detail response, WOWM. They are extremely informative. </p>
<p>I read your another post mentioned ‘anesthesia assistant’. I checked on website, found it’s a master degree job, but only offered at a few schools. One is Case Western. It requires MACT. Do you know if this program is very competitive? Or you have better link to find where this programs are offered?</p>
<p>You also mentioned quite a few other interesting health jobs.</p>
<p>Everything you need to know about anesthesia assistants:</p>
<p>[Facts</a> About](<a href=“http://www.anesthetist.org/factsaboutaas/]Facts”>http://www.anesthetist.org/factsaboutaas/)</p>
<p>NOTE: some programs accept either a MCAT or GRE score for admission consideration</p>
<p>Schools that offer an AA program:</p>
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<p>Admission is competitive.</p>
<p>Here are the stats for Emory’s matriculants from 2010:</p>
<p><a href=“Matriculant Statistics | Emory School of Medicine”>Matriculant Statistics | Emory School of Medicine;
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<p>And here are the minimum requirements for South University’s program:</p>
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<p>Thanks WOWM. </p>
<p>I checked Emory, the prerequisites are (part of):</p>
<p>Organic chemistry-3 semester credits or 4-5 quarter hours with Lab
Biochemistry -3 semester credits or 4-5 quarter hours
General physic - 6 semester credits or 9 quarter hours with Lab</p>
<p>I assume ‘3 semester credits’ is one semester? not taking the class for 3 semesters! I am always confused about these since in my school one semester counts 1 credit. </p>
<p>WOWM, you can open a consulting business for career/MS etc. You know so much and so good at to help others.</p>
<p>At most colleges, credit-hours reflect how many hours each week a lecture class meets.</p>
<p>3 credits =3 hours lecture per week. Lab credits are assessed at 3 hours lab = 1 credit.</p>
<p>A full time, full credit class is usually either 3 credits or 4 credits (depends on the school’s policy. Some schools add 1 credit for a mandatory recitation on top of the 3 lecture hours.)</p>
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<p>I’m a librarian—I answer questions for a living.</p>
<p>Finally understand how this credits work!!! Thanks WOWM.</p>
<p>Have your D or S or you taken Organic Chem or major prereq courses in the summer session? Does it look bad to MS if I took it in my college’s summer school? </p>
<p>Or is it doable that I take intro bio and organic chem together? </p>
<p>According to my school’s medical school, quote:
‘summer school courses are considered less rigorous than courses taken during the academic year’</p>
<p>The story behind this is: my school does not suggest freshman takes two lab courses in the 1st semester. So I am taking chem 1, will take chem2 in Spring. But intro bio is only offered in Fall. It means I have to take bio, organic chem 1 together in Sophomore Fall. Some of my premed friends said it’s hard to take both together, they took and suggest me to take organic chem1 next summer.</p>
<p>Thank you!!!</p>
<p>Neither of my daughters have taken pre-reqs during the summer. They have taken other non-science classes during the summer (anthropology, math) though mostly summers were for jobs and research.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t take orgo during the summer for 4 reasons:</p>
<p>1) it’s an intense class and whole lot of material packed in 5 weeks or less during summer session. If get the slightest bit behind–you’re in trouble.</p>
<p>2) summer classes because they are shorter than full semester classes often truncate the material taught–meaning you’ll have gaps in what you’re supposed to know</p>
<p>3) using summer school to avoid a semester where you carry two or more intensive science classes will call into question your work ethic/time management/ability to handle the intense workload that medical school requires</p>
<p>4) summer classes often have less competitive students taking them (thus devaluing any grade you do earn)</p>
<p>BTW, both girls were double science majors. Each took as many as 22 credits/semester (5 classes, 2 or 3 with labs) while working part-time, doing 8-15 hours/week research and various ECs. I don’t have a whole lot of sympathy for students who cannot handle 2 science classes with labs during a single semester. (Med school will be a whole lot worse that 2 sciences w/labs /semester in terms of workload.)</p>
<p>I understand that the new MCAT needs biochem. My college has two semester biochem courses. I just wonder if one semester biochem is enough?</p>
<p>I plan to major in Computer Science while taking all pre-prerequisites on the side. I read other threads that everyone said it’s OK to get into MS with any major, but most of them are in bio related majors. Will MS think I am not serious about Bio Science if I major in Comp Sci? Do you think Comp Sci is not a smart choice in terms of GPA stand point of view? </p>
<p>Right now I am taking all the basic courses, so I can change my major at anytime without problem. Comp Sci gives me a backup if I could not get in MS.</p>