Just a heads up, the 7 year BA/MD program for students in Missouri has been discontinued apparently
@Watang, wow, thanks for the admissions update! That was the relatively newer Guaranteed Admissions Baccalaureate/M.D. Program they started, although it was limited to a max of 10 in-state students (don’t know why regionals and out-of-state students weren’t eligible). It’s a shame, as I’m sure there were people this year who checked it off on the application, and were interested in having a more “normal” freshman year of college especially if they were not coming in with a lot of testing/transfer credit, even if it was limited to 10 Missouri residents.
@Roentgen, I checked the UMKC bookstore website, and they don’t have any books listed for Medicine 9115 - Medical Terminology and Medicine 9119 - Learning Basic Medical Sciences, do you know if there are any required textbooks for those classes when you had them?
So @PinkPrincess2014 last year posted what the books were during the 2014-2015 year, you can see here: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/18292053#Comment_18292053. The book title for Med Term seems to ring a bell, probably just a different edition now. LBMS doesn’t usually have a required textbook that I know of or remember having to buy. I would email the professor directly just to verify, as often times they’ve just forgotten to notify the bookstore, and the bookstore obviously doesn’t have time to hunt down every professor in the university to get their forms in.
Just as an FYI, don’t actually buy textbooks from the school bookstore. It’s usually MUCH more expensive there than what you can get buying the book online (new or used), borrowing from an upperclassman, etc. There’s also Amazon Prime for students: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_left_v4_sib?ie=UTF8&nodeId=201133690, with a referral system in which you can get $5 back for every person you refer who signs up, so it can potentially pay for itself.
Congratulations to the entering Year 1 BA/MD class who had their InDOCtrination ceremony today and will be starting their first day of school on Monday!
I fall in the out of state category, can someone please let me know my chances of getting into the 6 year BA/MD Program?
ACT: 34
GPA: 3.72 unweighted/4.5 weighted
Class Rank: School doesn’t rank
AP Lang: 4
AP Chem: 4
AP Bio: 4
AP US History: 4
AP Statistics: 4
AP Calc AB: 5
Honors and Awards:
Girl Scout Gold Award (In 11th grade)
Girl Scout Silver Award (In 9th grade)
Girl Scout Bronze Award (in 5th grade)
National Honors Society
AP scholar with Distinction
Extracurricular Activities:
Founder of a state wide implemented music therapy program in a health related environment
Vice President of a STEM awareness program
Student Council Class Rep
South Asian American Student Association
Relay for Life member
Health Related Activities
Volunteer at a hospital and a Children’s Hospital (250+hours)
Shadowing (100 +hours)
Year 2 here, doing my tradition of posting the UMKC BA/MD Online Supplemental Application for 2016-2017 which is now up online.
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Hi, I was wondering, how helpful would it look in an admission officer’s eyes to participate in WashU or any other university’s Mini-Medical School?
So your GPA is a little lower at: 3.72 compared to the 3.81 matriculating GPA for the class entering in 2015, so about one-tenth lower, although that would have to be taken in context with your curriculum rigor. Your ACT score of 34 is above the average ACT of 31, which is good. In terms of your healthcare hours, I think you have enough in terms of volume, although only in 2 activities (I would separate out the adult hospital and children’s hospital in terms of the hours unless they’re the same institution). You do have some time to get a few short term activities to add in before that November 1st deadline (see my posts in the thread this past month/2 months where I break up the application into parts with links that help find healthcare related activities in your area: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/19747021/#Comment_19747021). I’m assuming your shadowing was of a physician(s).
If you were in-state, I’d say you’d have no problem with getting an interview, but because you’re in the out-of-state pool, it’s more difficult to predict with utmost certainty just because the out-of-state pool that is applying to UMKC BA/MD is so very well-qualified and competitive on average in terms of their academics, standardized test scores, breadth of extracurriculars & leadership in school and healthcare ECs, etc. on paper. For the OOS pool - the applicant pool is usually 500+ applications, which they then interview about 80, to get down to the final 10-15 OOS students they take in each class. Even the regional pool has much more leeway, since there are more apportioned spots in the matriculating class for them than for OOS. So in many ways, for OOS students, getting an interview and getting into the program can feel like a crapshoot (http://grammarist.com/usage/crapshoot/)
So this is what I would work on, if I were you:
a) I would see if you can get in a few more very short-term healthcare activities that you can participate in before the Nov. 1 deadline - healthcare fundraisers or marathons, blood drives, free healthcare screenings, etc. to add to the healthcare ECs section.
b) Really work hard to write, edit, and proofread your personal statement and the short answer responses. Have someone like an English teacher look over your essays before you submit them.
These are the areas that you still have time to work on and strengthen.
@bladerz1, always coming thru for CC!!! Thank you for posting and hope Year 2 is starting off well for you.
@mli701, it’s perfectly fine to participate in the “mini-medical school” activities that other medical schools offer. It would actually fit under the “Structured/Formal program” category of the healthcare ECs. One activity by itself will not push the needle one way or another in terms of receiving an interview or not, but I think it would qualify as a healthcare EC that you participated in. The fact that it’s at another medical school institution would not be seen as a negative.
UMKC has ED?
@sampil, no, the UMKC BA/MD program does not have the Early Notification Deadline (which was only for being notified of the interview earlier) anymore. This website link from the main university has not been updated and is inaccurate for this year: http://www.umkc.edu/apply/deadlines.cfm. You can see the actual application timeline from the UMKC SOM webpage here: http://med.umkc.edu/bamd/timeline/. Deadline for receipt of all materials is November 1st – meaning they have to have a completed general application, a completed supplemental application, transcripts, standardized test score reports, completed online reference forms, in hand by that November 1st date.
Do you know what the interview calculator bases your chances off of? Are there real people behind the calculator? How accurate have you heard it to be?
THANKS MUCH 
@Sona3599, I actually didn’t hear about this UMKC Interview calculator in the thread until after this past cycle was already over. You can go here: http://prospective.apetest.org/s3/umkc-interview-calculator. I have no idea what it bases it off of since I can’t access it. You can only apparently access it if you have an @apetest.org email or an @.edu email. I know there are private schools that give their students institutional @.edu emails so they’d probably be able to access it. If you go to a public school, that usually doesn’t give their students’ school email addresses, maybe if your teacher or counselor is very nice and you explain the situation, they can submit whatever that website asks for on your behalf thru their .edu email. Just make sure that you take a look at the disclaimer at the bottom of the webpage.
Hey guys, so there has been some confusion on the third short response question. I think they meant to say, “social MEDIA platforms”, which they then give examples of in that question - Facebook, Twitter, etc., not “social medical platforms”. You can always call over to ask, but thought that might help make the question a little clearer.
@Roentgen Thanks! I was also wondering if it is better to submit an ACT score with scaled scores of:
English: 30
Math: 36
Reading:35
Science: 35
or
English: 34
Math: 34
Reading: 33
Science: 35
Both of these ACT scores have a composite of 34 but as you can see, the second one is all rounded but the first one shows more superiority in certain subjects but also shows inferiority in English in particular. Which of these ACT scores would be better to submit to UMKC BS/MD in order to improve my chances? Thank you!
@sampil, does the ACT have a score choice option similar to the SAT? (I’m not as familiar with the ACT). Based on the UMKC Med website itself, it doesn’t look like it makes a difference in your case: http://med.umkc.edu/bamd/admission-requirements-eligibility/, as they review the best composite score, which is the same score, 34, in your case.
You can see the percentiles here: http://blog.prepscholar.com/act-percentiles-and-score-rankings, which I have put in parentheses below:
1
English: 30 (92)
Math: 36 (99)
Reading:35 (99)
Science: 35 (99)
2
English: 34 (98)
Math: 34 (99)
Reading: 33 (97)
Science: 35 (99)
Either way, at UMKC, if you were to get in, an ACT English subscore of 30 or greater satisfies the Discourse I requirement, so you’re fine with either one, really. Just looking at that, if I had to make a decision of which one to send, I would (personally) go with #2 just because the other percentiles for other sections are either exactly the same or within 1-2.
Hi, I’m from Los Angeles and I would also like to know my chances for the program… also, thanks @Roentgen for always replying to people’s comments/concerns. I’ve been following this thread for over a year now and you’re on every page basically helping everyone LOL.
ACT: 35
GPA: 3.66 unweighted (extremely cutthroat public high school with 4000 students)
Class Rank: School doesn’t rank
AP’s taken/taking:
Chem
Bio
AB Calculus
English Language
U.S. History,
Comparative Gov/politics,
Honors and Awards:
CSF (California Scholarship Federation)
100 Hours Pin at a hospital I volunteered at
AP Scholar with Distinction
1/8 high school students to be chosen to participate in a meeting with Paul Andersen, founder of Bozeman Science
Extracurricular Activities/health-related activities:
Chemistry Club VP
UCLA blood drive (hosted it at my school)
Senior Men and Women Leadership
HIV research at USC (will be working on a microRNA/HIV project after February at USC as well)
Volunteered at a local hospital for 100 hours
Started my own sneaker business
Apache News Film/Broadcasting
Speech and Debate
Pre-Med club (regular club member)
Muslim Student Union President
Played basketball for 13 years
CPR certified (idk if this will help or not but who knows lol)