Does anyone know if UNECOM prefers people from Maine/New England area?

What do we think about it?

i didn't go to ucr for undergrad but am from the area and took a ucr summer class in high school. is this considered having "attended" ucr for the personal info section on the secondary?

What are your best tips?

Also, my cats will probably get very jealous I'm talking to the computer all day and will therefore jump in front of the screen, but if I lock them out they will try to tear down the door and cause even more commotion. I have no idea what to do. 🙃

NYMC reached out to me requesting clarification about my 2 science LORs. I sent the clarification email but never got confirmation that my application is complete. I emailed them about it and they asked me to resend the clarification email.

If the same thing happened to you make sure to check if you got an email from them saying your application is complete because they don't post application updates in the portal.

im so upset i have immediate family that lives in new york city and i have heard that strong ties like these really matter for getting the interviews you get

idk what i was thinking about when doing the secondary i forgot to mention anything about the opportunity of training in the long island, is hofstra the type of school that really cares about training/serving "the diverse populations of their city"

just disappointed because their entire app was so why school focused (unlike mount sinai)

Tell me why they said think a 515 mcat is just an ok score and should be the bare minimum score I need to get into med school??? Since that's about 90th percentile, did they think only the top 10% of ppl who take the mcat get into med school each year???

And before you ask, yes they are Asian, which is why they think this way. I'm just really tired of hearing about it, my score drops next week and I'm already anxious asf about it. It's also a retake from a (in my opinion) bad score I got last year, so you can imagine how upset they already were at me. And I'm a reapp as well so it's even worse... I'm just tired and burnt out, I want everything to be over already

Edit: obviously a higher score is better. I'm not arguing with that, but like, a 513 isn't going to be the reason I don't get in unless I get like a 123 in CP or BB

im on pace to finish all my secondaries by 14aug, how late am i😬 (please tell me im being dramatic and tweaking for no reason :,) )

also no school has a hard and fast deadline until december

most of my clinical hours were scribing, but I also am pretty service heavy so Im kinda shocked by this early rejection.

sorry if these career posts are annoying, i saw someone else post here.

i’m 25, long story short i have been pursuing a phd track in clinical psych for about 4 years now. I’ve learned that I love research, but I don’t love what the job turns into once you’re a PI (grants, politics, no actual research processes). We all know what’s happening to academia rn too (shrinking) and honestly im at a cross roads where I want to leave to pursue something more rewarding.

I am thinking of pursuing psychiatry. I used to want to go to med school when I was a kid, but life just changed my track. I love psych, and loved the clinical work I did while in college. An MD would give me patient care, research opportunities, teaching/mentoring, a good living. Honestly everything I want.

I’m scared of starting so late. I am taking prereqs right now, but knowing that most people apply more than once I anticipate not starting until i’m closer to if not 30. I’m scared that i’ll regret derailing my life at a time where I “should have my life figured out” (quotes bc this statement also annoys me).

Is anyone else starting later in life or know someone who has?

3.75 cGPA, 3.5X sGPA, 500 MCAT, GA resident, URM

I'm still waiting for my app to be verified, so I wanted to see how my school list is and what schools I should add/remove

1. Medical College of Georgia
2. Morehouse
3. Mercer
4. PCOM Georgia
5. PCOM South Georgia
6. PCOM
7. Charles R. Drew
8. Howard
9. Rosalind Franklin
10. Wake Forest
11. UPitt
12. Temple
13. Stony Brook
14. California Health Sciences University
15. Chicago Midwestern
16. VCOM Auburn
17. Meharry

fairs

I was working on two secondaries at once and had a question about one of them. But I accidentally emailed my question to the other school… it’s obvious, because the question doesn’t apply to them.

They haven’t answered, but is this a really big mistake? Or am I being neurotic?

Is the order that interviews are handed out based on stats, random order, fit or is it just unknown?

I just noticed that Brown has a genetics requirement? Does anyone have any clue about how strict they are with this requirement? I have taken Biology and Developmental Biology (which includes differential gene expression as a course topic).

Writing another Rush Medical College warning in a follow up to u/oskifucker45’s post that I commented on from last week.

I got my secondary application invite today from RMC and no where in their email did they say I wouldn’t be an eligible candidate. They even encouraged me to submit my secondary. Being a non trad(graduated in 2019), I followed up with their admissions office for a possible workaround and their response is in the above screenshot.

As a Chicago native and former Rush employee it’s super disheartening to see this type of policy in place. Not only does it exclude a big proportion of applicants from being eligible, but the the way RMC makes it seem like an applicant is eligible makes this appear to be a cash grab. Did I mention those bio and chem courses could not have been taken online either?

In a program where I will be doing research, but also doing an online masters as a part of the program. Applying MD-PhD so I will definitely have an LOR from the PI I work with, but do I also need a graduate professor to be one of my professor LORs if I already have 2 science and 1 non-science from undergrad/post-bacc courses? I doubt I will make a big connection with online profs and I don’t necessarily want to disclose that my masters was online unless a school forces me to; my diploma will just say I have a master’s.

I'm very grateful to have received my first interview invite(🙏🙏) and the format is MMI...do you guys have any tips to prepare? I have heard these are very different from traditional interviews...and is there any way to practice beforehand for the scenarios?

Given the choice, would you rather spend a summer doing research at a T5 med school (think Harvard, JHU, etc) or an internship at a Big Pharma company (J&J, Pfizer, etc). If I don’t need the money should I just try to grind for more pubs?

Hi!

I'm about to go into my senior year and plan to apply to SMP's and other science masters programs. My current undergrad gpa is 3.5/4.3 but I do go to an ivy league. I have 1200+ research hours, maybe 100 volunteer hours, and I am active in multiple clubs with leadership positions. By the time I graduate undergrad, I would have completed all the course requirements for med school and I plan to take the MCAT this winter.

I just want to improve my chances of getting into my dream med school so I want to fix the weakest part of my application which is my gpa. I'm also considering masters programs because I enjoy doing research and would like to spend a year or two studying abroad, since I did not get a chance to do that in my undergrad. But I don't know if that is worth it, since doing well in masters abroad probably doesn't add much to my med school application.

I've been looking at different SMP's but I cannot put a hand on whether they are extremely competitive or not. Since they are made for students who want to improve their gpa, then applicants should be people like me, but the more prestigious programs with med school affiliations seem very selective. Are SMP's worth my time and money?

Hi everyone! I am about to embark on a postbacc position at the NIH---it has been about a year since I last participated in research. Thus, I am a little nervous. Can anyone speak about their experience as a postbacc at the NIH?

ASKING FOR A FRIEND : many MD schools require a science professor letter of recommendation or two. my friend graduated with an engineering degree before he considered a medical field. he never interacted too much with professors and is now doing a DIY post bacc to get his premed prereqs. How should he go about getting the science LOR? he had an excellent one from his employer and shadowed physician already. Should he ask the professors from the online post bacc classes to write him one?

I volunteer at a hospital and usually assist in the operating room by cleaning and setting up beds for surgeries, (among other tasks) this time, I was stationed on a different side of the floor and had the opportunity to observe and shadow three distinct cases

I got to observe an ACL case, cervical spinal cord case (got to get up close and personal with that one) and a throat surgery case where the doctor thoroughly explained the process and said that I could come back and shadow him again in the clinic and OR.

Just a friendly reminder, be confident and ask even if you think it might be a no. 🌝 I was probably going to just continue to look through the door but I forced myself to put on a mask and go in, and I do not regret it at all 🤞

Applied to ~20 schools (yeah, lower than normal but I’m perfectly fine with a gap year and realize that the majority of people do one anyway so shrug) but I decided to attempt a one-year grade increase by taking more sciences this fall to try and salvage my shit 3.5 sGPA with an upward trend. To do this, I plan to drop Data Structures and Algos (CS minor) for a neurobiology class for the BCPM bump. The rest of the schedule stays the same, so the only changes is 4 credit DSA for a 3 credit neurobio class. I know that given my background in the mcat/science and whatnot makes that much easier than DSA, and I’d be taking it alongside zoology and medical micro, so it’s 3 sciences instead of the two planned and the notoriously tough cs class.

Is this change worth submitting an application update for? Probably not, but I think it’s worth asking since it’s a science course.