UMKC 6-year BS/MD Program

Pre-Med & Medical School Multiple Degree Programs
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I am reallyyyy interested in the UMKC ba/md accelerated medical program and was wondering where my credentials would place me as far as “strength of applicant” to this program. I love Kansas City and its my dream to go to this school. My parents are also alumni to the program but that is unlikely to help me. My weakness is SAT score but I am working on improving it. I am an out of state applicant (Florida) and have taken IB, AP, and dual-enrollment classes. Here are some of my other credentials:

Class Rank: 1/579

Weighted GPA: 4.90

SAT (critical reading and math) = 1360

SAT II MATH = 760

Will have 93 college credit hours by end of high school (Have 60 so far)
These are the college classes I have taken:

Precalculus/Trig - A
Calculus I - A
General Biology I w/lab - A
General Biology II w/lab - A
English Composition I - A
English Composition II - A
Intro to Chemistry - A
General Chemistry I w/lab - A
General Psychology - A
Sociology - A
American History Until 1877 - A
American History Since 1877 - A
Statistics I - A
Spanish I - A
Microcomputer Applications - A
Music Theory - A

Senior Year Classes:
General Chemistry II w/lab
General Physics I w/lab
Financial Accounting I w/lab
Public Speaking I
Calculus II
Humanities I
Macroeconomics
Managerial Accounting

AP Classes:
AP Microeconomics
AP U.S. Government
AP European History

Full time dual enrollment between University of Florida and College of Central Florida.
Participant in Key Club, National Honors Society, Science National Honors Society, MU Alpha Theta Math Honors Society, Phi Theta Kappa (College Honors Society), National Society of High School Scholars.

Played four varsity sports: Baseball, football, wrestling, and competitive weightlifting

Attended the National Student Leadership Conference (Georgia Tech) in Medicine and Health

Volunteered about 200 hours at the hospital

Medical Shadowing in Neurosurgery, General Surgery, Internal Medicine, and Gastroenterology

Teacher recommendation letters: pending but will be good

Personal Essays: Solid

What do you all think?

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In the admissions process, there are a few key things that the committee wants to see. Primarily, they want to see that you are able to handle the course load. It looks like you have the capability. Your scores on standardized tests are not the most important thing. However, you need to take the ACT in order to be admitted to the school. Many applicants have been dismissed prior to even having an interview despite being number one in the class and having stellar scores. The committee also looks heavily at the location of the student. In the state of Missouri, there are two major cities that contribute a sizable number of highly qualified applicants. The school has been charged with creating doctors for the state of Missouri, so the committee looks at where many of the students fall and evaluate the quality of the student based upon his or her own high school. That being said, I have not seen many students from Florida and do not believe that your being from florida will put you in a different position than someone from California. You will be looked at in relation to other out of state applicants. Other factors that look great are always leadership roles, extracurricular involvement, rec letters (pick teachers that know you and your abilities with people/science), and hospital hours; you seem to have reasonable amounts of all of those and probably can expect some good letters. The most important part of the application is the interview. It doesn’t matter how many A’s you have or how well you score on the SAT if you do not kill the interview. The school wants its students to be confident, articulated, able to talk about a variety of topics other than their resum

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I find it sort of odd that this thread has ended after 8 years straight of activity. Is there now an alternate thread for this program?

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Pursuit ToExcel…
Why don’t you start a new thread? :slight_smile:

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Why should I start a new threat if this one already exists?

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Yeah who’s applying to this program this year guys? I live a little far and their application methods are a bit different from the other med programs!

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GreenSage, where are you from? and have you applied yet?

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@PursuitToExcel: I’m from NJ and yes, I have applied! How about yourself?
I just noticed, my stats are similar to yours, I’m equally nervous haha

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@GreenSage: Yeah going back and reading some of the posts from the past years definitely doesn’t help the nervousness. Its quite intimidating how impressive a lot of the applicants were. I have applied and I am also out of state. Do you mind posting your stats?

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surely! I feel like everyone on here who gets into these programs have such incredible impressive stats

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Our school doesn’t do class rank

GPA: 3.99/4.0

SAT (critical reading and math) = 1360

SAT II MATH = 770

AP Classes:
AP Chem
AP Bio
AP Calc BC (Calc 1 and 2 college credit)
AP Physics C (Physics 1 and 2 college credit)

Participant in Doctors of Tomorrow, National Honors Society, Science National Honors Society, Mu Alpha Theta Math Honors Society, Art Honor Society… my resume is 3 pages, i don’t quite remember everything I put on there but these are the main focuses

~no sports haha~!

National Merit Commended.

Attended the National Student Leadership Conference in Medicine and Health

Volunteered at the hospital

Medical Shadowing. Including work with a doctor in India at a private clinic to provide health care for those can’t afford to go to actual bigger name hospitals.

Teacher recommendations: brilliant
Counselor Recommendation: He’ll probs say i’m committed and motivated but overall Ok considering we never interacted too much.

Personal Essays: Solid.

PS. Are you applying to the Rutgers BS/MD by any chance? I just got an email today saying the deadline’s extended to Nov. 15th

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You were right, your stats are like very very similar to mine haha. There are some things on my resume that have changed as well but I just wanted some people’s general opinion of it. And btw, whats the minimum SAT requirement for Rutgers? I could be mistaken but I thought it required a 1400?

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Yeah, it’s 1400 for Rutgers. I know some people who have gotten in with a little less so I just thought why not give it a shot. Are you looking at any of the programs with Drexel? Those seem pretty decent. I really like Drexel Med school better than NJMS.

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@GreenSage and @PursuitToExcel, my son has applied to the UMKC program too. We are out-of-state. It will be interesting to see if he gets an interview or not. His stats are:

SAT I (CR+M): 1400
ACT: 33
SAT Math 2: 800
SAT Chem 740
GPA (unweighted): 3.71
48 college credit hours
EC, community work, and shadowing: Reasonable hours

He has already been accepted into the Gannon/LECOM BS/DO program.

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Congratulations! He has strong test scores too so it’s all up to the ECs now.
These programs are always so unpredictable and that’s what makes me really nervous

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Hi, I need advice on Lecom interview, can I PM?.

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@rocking1, yes, please feel free to PM me and I will help in anyway.

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@rocking1 go for it :slight_smile:

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@GreenSage: Yeah I was considering Drexel until I realized what their MCAT requirement was. Also, I don’t know enough about that program to really be interested in it. I’m applying to multiple programs but UMKC is definitely my number one choice.

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Depending on the undergrad school with Drexel the MCAT is only 29-30, which is under the national average… unless you meant you didn’t want to take the MCAT at all? My top choice is the RPI/Albany med program yay!