Do Med Schools look at legacies?

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>I have about a 50-50 chance a Johns Hopkins and my dad went there for med school and my mom went there for nursing school and I was wondering if this would help me at all?</p>

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<p>Nope .</p>

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<p>… you have a 50/50 shot at Hopkins? What, are you sitting on a 41/4.0?</p>

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<p>umm… my cumulative gpa is 3.86 which when I checked was just above average and my MCAT was 34 which is also around average for them, I have a major in bio and minor in psych.</p>

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<p>Lol. You have no clue how med school admissions work. 50% shot at JHU with a 3.86/34? Unless your dad is a significant donor to the med school or a department chair, JHU is not going to compromise any of their spots.</p>

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<p>are you sure because our pre med advisor was the one who told me 50-50 and I don’t see why if I get the average gpa the people accepted got why I won’t have a good chance?</p>

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<p>… you have a 50/50 shot at Hopkins? What, are you sitting on a 41/4.0?</p>

<p>Lol I find this so funny… because even with a 41/4.0 you’re suggesting you still only have a 50/50 chance, how lame is that.</p>

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<p>Hopkins’s admissions percentage is something like 4%. For your odds to be 50%, you have to be better than 92% of their applicants.*</p>

<p>Do you think a 3.86/34 is better than 92% of Hopkins applicants?</p>

<p>*(Even this would be optimistic, because not everybody in the top 8% is equal. Really you’d have to be in the top 6% or so.)</p>

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<p>Hint #1: most pre-med advisors have absolutely no idea what they’re talking about</p>

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<p>Your *imaginary *premed advisor?</p>

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<p>yea no shi*t, first of all thats kind of weird that you would even do that and this isn’t my CC account, i don’t have one so I am using my brothers that his school had him make.</p>

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<p>and also I still don’t really understand that because how would I have better stats than half the people who got in but still not be good compared to the applicants?</p>

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<p>Because when you’re talking about medical schools of the caliber that Johns Hopkins is, your stats are essentially the bare minimum. Do you think your personal statement, secondary application essays, activities, awards, research, clinical experience, and interview skills, and performance on interview day going to be better than 92% of the other applicants?</p>

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<p>Source: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/law-school/963256-double-major-biology-psychology.html#post1065263118[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/law-school/963256-double-major-biology-psychology.html#post1065263118&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Does your brother also have a major in biology and a minor in psychology?</p>

<p>LOL ■■■■ ■■■■■.</p>

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First, let’s assume you really use your brother’s account…
This is because, as far as the medical school admission is concerned, the stat is only a part of the criteria. For a very top medical school, the stat is kind of the necessary condition for your application to be even looked at, not a sufficient condition for you to be admitted.</p>

<p>I know this is just anecdotal: I know three applicants with the following stats in the past two years: 3.9+/38, 3.95/40, and 3.9+/39. None of these three applicants even received an interview invite, let alone the admission (at H or JHU). I actually believe that, for a medical school of this caliber, the stat may be used as a screening device only for your application to be looked at. It is other qualifications that get you in.</p>

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<p>It’s pretty clear that you are a high schooler. No one at the juncture where they’ve already taken the MCAT and are ready to apply would believe they have a 50/50 shot at JHU, let alone someone with a 34 MCAT. I just have no idea why you would make up random stats.</p>

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<p>yea, reading through all of your posts its clear that these are hypothetical questions and you obviously don’t have stats like that, maybe if you spent more time actually studying and less making up different scenarios which aren’t real then you would have a 1% chance at JHU or any other med school for that matter.</p>