<p>@desigirl23 Toledo is not a difficult undergrad school. In Ohio the state schools are ranked Ohio State, Miami, Cincinnati, then all the rest. You should have no trouble with engineering there.</p>
<p>@desigirl I put in the link and it coverted it (its in light blue) see if you can find a comparable list, trust me, its very impressive in comparison.</p>
<p>Honestly though I feel that I’m only aiming for primary care so I see ur point but its just the engineering part that is pulling me away… People say its hard to finish in like 4 years and that is what is scaring me.</p>
<p>@asianandproud- whats the deal with that? How come all the Texas schools are so cheap. Maybe we should move to Texas.</p>
<p>Idk man but I’m definitely cool with it.</p>
<p>Also throwing in my 2 cents to @Desigirl go with the USA or you will regret it</p>
<p>Anyone hear from W&J/Temple? or Howard?</p>
<p>@banyen, I would take 7-yr of Miami over 8-yr of Cleveland. are you allowed to have multiple try for that 30 MCAT?</p>
<p>@ohioparent, thanks for being on this forum, we definitely need your insight here. When you mentioned those top schools (harvard, Hopkins, etc) and those desirable specialties, is it just a generally statement, or those schools are indeed highly-ranked in derm, ortho, etc? I went to hopkins resident site [Johns</a> Hopkins Medicine - ACCM: Match Results](<a href=“Johns Hopkins Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine - Johns Hopkins Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine”>Johns Hopkins Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine - Johns Hopkins Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine), counted their past matches, seems to be mixed bag between top schools and no-name schools, can you provide us with your thoughts. thanks.</p>
<p>@retro22–> are you considering the Temple Health Scholars Program? B/c it seems like you have very similar choices as myself (I believe Nova/Drexel, Drexel/Drexel, and Temple Health Scholars…you also have the NJ program, which I didn’t apply to). Which one are you leaning toward?</p>
<p>@pcb1604: Yes, multiple retakes of the MCAT are allowed at Miami. Not sure exactly how many though.</p>
<p>desigirl - goto Toledo. Its not a big deal getting a 3.5 GPA.</p>
<p>@pcb1604 as I was reading some old press release from Harvard - I saw this stat from 2007 - 104 out of 188 graduates stayed for residency in Harvard affiliated hospitals - so obviously they do get into the most desired residency programs - I am sure that is true for most top 20 Medical prgrams in the country. They match well as residency programs like to boast where there residents come from.</p>
<p>hey guys so I was wondering if anyone knew how easy/efficient it is to get from the main drexel med campus to the inner city hospitals, like for the purpose of volunteering/shadowing at those affiliated hospitals in downtown philly. I know there’s a shuttle system, but how efficient is it? Will opportunities be limited?</p>
<p>@sjshah, not decided yet. Told ‘no’ to one of the drexel 4+4 programs, so that the next person in waitlist can get it sooner.</p>
<p>@pcb1604- I would summarize medical education this way. You will most likely be the best you can be if all of your training is a big academic institutions with academic well educated attending as well as excellent residents and fellows to learn from PLUS the best and brightest classmates to learn from and compete with. Trust me if you are doing a surgical rotation as a third year and you are at Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins, UCLA, Baylor… ETC. I’m just using these institutions as examples. Any big academic training program would equate. But understand you WILL be better trained at Mt Sinai New York for internal medicine vs the MT Sinai B program in some small hospital in Queens (I am making reference to the programs presented from St Georges- there is a big difference) If you want to do fellowship training or get a good academic job the quality of the program you trained in will be judged.
On an unrelated topic an MCAT score of 30 is fairly average and all students who get into BS MD programs are far above average. I wouldn’t focus on MCAT scores. IF you make the program you will do fine on the MCAT.</p>
<p>@OhioParent558 Yeah at first I was somewhat annoyed by the required score of 30 (or what will be 40) and a max amount of 3 tests for the MCAT at Brooklyn College B.A./M.D., but I realized that most people aren’t taking it any more than 2 or 3 times. I hope what you are saying about the 30 being average is true. </p>
<p>Anybody hear anything from Stony Brook? I think they are mailing out admissions notifications today or tomorrow.</p>
<p>@thebombingrange- from a questionable source (Wiki) but for the purpose of this discussion. “The average scaled score in 2010 was 25.0 with a standard deviation of 6.4” I think you kids are above the average kids taking this exam.<br>
PS why “thebombingrange” it sounds scary</p>
<p>Hey Guys,</p>
<p>Anyone know for sure that they are going to njit for either sgu or njms?</p>
<p>@retro- which one did you turn down? I didn’t know drexel had an 8 year bs/md. And Temple Health Scholars is basically out for me, as I just found out that the med program is barely guaranteed. So I’m basically between Nova/Drexel and Drexel/Drexel.</p>
<p>If anyone has any thoughts for which one I should choose, Nova or Drexel, it would be much appreciated. I think the main thing keeping me from Nova is lack of diversity, and the main thing keeping me from Drexel is the trimesters.</p>
<p>I just came to know that my friend got into Stony Brook. I am so happy for him!</p>
<p>@Sbmhhs When? How? Through Wise, HC, or Engineering? When did he interview? I though they said it would be through overnight mail on Friday!!</p>