Advice on what med schools to apply to?

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>I just graduated from UConn (CT resident) with a BS double major in Biology and Psychology, neuroscience minor. I took the MCAT last summer and got a 28, which I was not happy with. I am retaking it in about a month and I am apply for the 2013-2014 cycle coming up.<br>
GPA=3.72, assuming I get a 30 (hopefully higher but assuming a 30) on the mcat where should I consider applying, being a CT resident.</p>

<p>15 activities:

  1. French horn player (~11 years, tons of ensembles, regionals/all-state etc.)
  2. Hartford Hospital volunteer (5 years, 5 units, 340 hours)
  3. Doctor shadows (4, 2 this summer lined up)
  4. UConn marching band (4 years)
  5. Pre med society involvement
  6. UConn Pep Band (4 years)
  7. Kappa Kappa Psi (4 years, Music Service fraternity)
  8. HuskyTHON (raises money for childrens hospital)
  9. Section leader (2 years) and Band Captain (1 year) of Marching Band (leadership roles)
  10. Behavioral neuroscience research (1 year, 2 posters/presentations)
  11. EMT-B (2 years, volunteer)
  12. Vice President of Service for my fraternity (leadership role)
  13. Hartford Hospital Fall Prevention Study research assistant (1 year)
  14. Patient Care Assistant at Hartford Hospital (oncology, started this summer)
  15. Wrote research grant for my neuroscience lab</p>

<p>I will probably not be applying to many top tier med schools if any. But I would like some feedback on my EC’s and on where I should be looking to apply, especially since CT has few med schools.</p>

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<p>Get MCAT higher and do not worry about anything else. The good predictor - real exam score being 2 points below your best practice test score. It is a good idea to get your practice score to be consistantly around 35. Some people do not drop 2 points in real exam, my D. got exactly 2 points below on a real exam.</p>

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<p>I don’t buy that as being an accurate predictor. You need more than one practice test to get an idea of your score and there’s always a chance you get lucky and have one high score not representative of your average performance.</p>

<p>For example my real score was 8 points lower than my best test. It was much closer to the average of all my practice tests though.</p>

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<p>"You need more than one practice test to get an idea of your score "
-it is not what I said. I sadi the best, not the only one. Predictor does not mean that it will happen, as not all predictions come true. Some peopl will do about the same, some drop more. However, when someone is leveled in the practice tests (being close to the same number over and over and over as it happened to my D.) then it could indicate that your real score will be couple point below the highest since you have done close to your highest many times. There is a emotion factor that is hard to control. However, I believe that D. got this under control for her Step 1 and performed much closer to her practice tests. She said that she made a specail effort to stay calm this time, all thru preparation and actual exam time. But again, she is oder now.</p>

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<p>Your best is only one test.</p>

<p>I know what predictor means. I think a much better predictor is an average of multiple tests</p>

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<p>assuming a 30+ on the mcat, in addition to your state schools, i would apply to hofstra, temple, jefferson, u of rochester, albany, rutgers (umdnj) the new school in scranton, PA for starters good luck</p>

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<p>Hmm…for URochester, a 30 MCAT is on the low side. Average matriculated last year had a 33 MCAT. </p>

<p>NJ publics have extremely low OOS acceptance rates. UMDNJ accepted only 25 OOS students last year out of over 2000 OOS applicants. </p>

<p>Quinnipiac has new program that admitted its first class this year.</p>

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<p>Apply to Marshall university WV</p>