<p>If i went to a jr college for a year to do my basics and then transfered over to Baylor University what are my chances of getting into one of these medical schools? Would it be harder for me because i went to a jr college for a year? Do your undergrad school even matter to them or just your grades and MCAT scores? I would be majoring in behavioral science.</p>
<p>Will Dartmouth Geisel or Harvard Med accept that you do the prereqs at a jr college?</p>
<p>Yea thats what im asking. Im wondering if when they see that, will they think less of my application? Also, if Baylor is a good enough university that they will still be interested in looking at me.</p>
<p>Why do you feel the need to attend an Ivy medical school?</p>
<p>On top of 3.8+ GPA, here are target MCAT scores: (notice that you need ECs, as well, but the reason why these target scores could seem unrealistic at first glance is because my target scores are given in terms of the 2015 MCAT) aim for 45+ in both cases.</p>
<p>Perhaps you should ask the med schools directly as far as taking prereqs at a CC is concerned. However, Baylor is good enough for either med school to consider your application.</p>
<p>Harvard and Dartmouth are large research institutions. To get their attention, other than high GPAs and MCAT scores, you should have a considerable amount of research ECs. But then again, I don’t know why a person would want to go to an Ivy Med school unless they are already at an Ivy UG.</p>
<p>@tomofboston Because i want to go to one of the best of the best schools… </p>
<p>@frugaldoctor Why wouldnt someone want to go to an ivy league school if they had the chance to? If i can get in i will definitely go.</p>
<p>@Catria I will ask the medical schools about that. Im aiming for a high GPA and MCAT score, so it will better my chances</p>
<p>
I am at a loss about the logic in this statement. Could you elaborate on this?</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>Then you had better be one of the best of the best applicants. </p>
<p>“Yea thats what im asking”…you have to ask Med. Schools’ adcoms, not here.
D. has asked couple of adcoms and got quick responses. She had questions about AP credits for English and Math.
Another note, the usual goal of regular Medical School applicant is “getting a spot at Med. School”, not “getting a spot at Harvard Med. School”. Only about 43% of applicant pool is getting accepted.<br>
Why you want to be at these specific Medical Schools? Most applicants are confused about choices even after interviews , talking to current students, researching a lot about program. You do not have this experience yet, but you are already sure where you want to go. How did you decide?</p>
<p>I have never heard of MCAT=45+, I believe that 45 is absolute highest and there are few people / year who are getting 40. On another hand, there are plenty of applicants with college GPA=4.0. So, high college GPA is avievable and under your control. Getting MCAT=40 is not so much, you need ton of luck and a great test taking talent to achive this one. It is very normal for somebody with the college GPA=4.0 and overall great application to have MCAT about 35 (after enourmous effort to prepare for it) </p>
<p>The usual advice on CC is to try to avoid taking prereqs at a community college. There are some situations where that can’t be avoided–if, for financial reasons, it is impossible to attend a four-year college during your first year or two, and you do well in your upper level science classes once you transfer, you won’t have ruined your chances of getting in. Please do, however, keep an open mind about where you want to go to medical school. It is fine to shoot high, but all US medical schools are good…and rather difficult to get into!</p>
<p>The only reliable sources for questions like this are Med. School adcoms. You do not want to risk your application having answers outside of the adcoms. </p>
<p>OK, just checked rankings - , while Harvard is #1, Dartmouth is #38, hardly “top”, if you think strictly about “top of the top”, the same ranking as some public state Med. School, including one of our public state Med. Schools.
It looks like maybe your criteria is a location? Location is a top criteria for many (my D. applied strictly by location). nothing unusual here. But then, your list I imagine would be much wider than these 2. In addition, what is good for Dartmouth, might not be so for Harvard. Also, schools have different list of requirements, some require pre-reqs that are not required by others.
For reference, my D. did not have MCAT=40, not even close. She got into top 20s. </p>
<p>I assume that 45+ thing was in reference to the new MCAT which will be out of 60 (4 sections each with a max score of 15).</p>
<p>But yeah, the fact that you, OP, are lumping Dartmouth and Harvard together for med school shows a lack of understanding. I suggest you read the stickies.</p>
<p>But to more directly answer your question: if you don’t take a single science course at Baylor, you will be judged for your JUCO classes. If you take science classes at Baylor and your GPA doesn’t plummet, then it won’t really matter.</p>
<p>“Because i want to go to one of the best of the best schools…”</p>
<p>Do you realize that all US MD schools are excellent. Do you realize that the MD education in the US is flat? They all teach the same thing. What do you think you’ll get by going to one of those SOMs? </p>
<p>SOM rankings aren’t telling you what the quality of instruction, are you aware of that?</p>
<p>My gut would say that unless you’re going for a MD/PhD there’s no point in attending one of those schools…unless you qualify for super aid there or something. </p>
<p>What is your cumGPA and your BCMP GPA? </p>
<p>What were your SAT or ACT scores? </p>
<p>Your major is Behavior Science. Is that psychology or similar? What hard science courses have you taken at Baylor?</p>
<p>Do you have any special hooks? Special research? Awards?</p>
<p>How would you distinguish yourself from other applicants to those schools?</p>
<p>Don’t get hung up on a couple of med schools. </p>
<p>While “They all teach the same thing” at Med. Schools, programs are widely different. Lter, you want to choose the program that matches your personal goals, not somebody else’s. that is when ranking will become somewhat irrelevant. In fact after very very careful considerations and Second Look events, my own D. has chosen the Med. School that was lower in ranking and more expensive than another one out of her 2 finals. She choose HER own criteria at the time. You do not even know your criteria yet at this point in your life. You got to get your stats, apply, get accepted and then see what you have on your plate.</p>
<p>It depends on whether people normally make it from Baylor University to these medical schools.</p>
<p>I would be very surprised by anyone going to community college moving onto Baylor and then moving onto these colleges. There is a natural pecking order at colleges and there will be established students who get the best of the recommendations. Someone showing up 1 or 2 years in will not be able to get the recommendations needed to impress out of state schools. It takes 3-4 years to make such contacts.</p>
<p>Thank you to the people who actually answered my question instead of questioning why i want to go to these schools. Not that i should have to mention this, but i do have other schools in mind i was just wondering if the ivy’s would accept something like this. Obviously i look at Harvard because… well its Harvard. I can dream of getting into Harvard. And Dartmouth because theres just something about it, Really everything. The location is great as well. Not everyones parents pay for the kids college, so yes i do have to go to a CC college for a year and yes i STILL AIM BIG!! </p>
<p>^Again, research could show that CC is NOT the cheapest option. the cheapest is to go to 4 year college on Merit awards. But whatever is done it is done and behind.<br>
This comment is for future applicants. CC have limited resources and frankly I never heard of Merit awards at CC, while many, many 4 year colleges, including privates have great funds (both public and private - privately funded Merits are widely available even at state public 4 year colleges). Given the fact that most pre-meds were top caliber HS students, do not overlook Merit scholarships. I have mentioned many times, that my D. was on full tuition Merit award at her UG and it was a total of about 10 privately funded scholarships that she did NOT need to apply at all, they were automatically awarded and automatically renewable every year as long as she maintained high college GPA. You need high college GPA to apply to Med. School anyway, might as well use it for your financial support.
So, as far as I can see, MOST pre-meds in fact can pay themselves (indirectly) and free their families from paying for their college. All that you need is to work hard (absolute maust if you considering Med. School anyway) and choose your 4 year college carefully after extensive research (…and skipping ranking). </p>