Best Premed colleges

mom2collegekids
Sat, 16 Jul 2016 15:21:52 +0000

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I disagree. If I had a 1170-1200 sat score, wanted to become a doctor, and I had a direct entry pathway to a DO school I’d jump on it.
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I agree that it’s an opportunity to jump on!

What I meant is that knowing that the 19 aren’t all going to MD schools means that the school isn’t somehow doing magic tricks.

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What you are missing is that some of these students could [have been] 1400+ students given the right situation. Perhaps the foundation at their school was lacking. Perhaps they were bored and not motivated. Perhaps they are late bloomers.
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Of course! And that happens at probably every school in the nation. A mom recently PM’d me about a surprise situation from her DD’s grad class. A student who had been a “so so” student got her act together in college and is now headed to Maryland’s med school.

Juniata can be a great opportunity, particularly with that LECOM affiliation. It’s a school to consider if someone is certain that they want to go to med school, but their test scores aren’t that high.

That said…getting into LECOM without taking the MCAT is one thing…getting high enough scores on those later exams is another. Who wants to start accumulating all that med school debt only to not pass the exams.