<p>if Harvard accepted a medical school applicant, can you assume that other top schools will also accept him/her?</p>
<p>what are some “safety” schools for medical school application?</p>
<p>Of course not. What a strange thing to ask.</p>
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<p>And that depends on your application - as a general rule, there’s really no such thing as a safety school for anybody.</p>
<p>Often you will have reasonable odds at your state school, if you can present an MCAT that’s higher than their average in each section and a strong GPA.</p>
<p>hey guys the magic formula is high GPA + good MCAT’s + luck and extracurriculars = acceptance letter from med school. That took me forever to find.</p>
<p>That took you forever to find?? I could’ve told you that…</p>
<p>(Plus teacher recs.)</p>
<p>true true…</p>
<p>Also, don’t forget race and geography.</p>
<p>How important are teacher recs? I mean when you have a bio-101 class of 200+ students is it worth asking your professor for a rec even if you have him/her again for a higher level biology class? My problem is that I don’t like to be too friendly with teachers outside of class ( just a weird personality problem I guess). </p>
<p>What would you guys advise for me? Go see my prof during office hours?, particapating more in class? I managed to get recommandations in HS b/c I had a physics teacher who was also my Cross-Country Coach and a Foreign Language teacher who just liked me for no particular reason.</p>
<p>Also is it better to attend a school that it better known on merit or another that is not too bad but has better possiblites for internship/volunteer because of their reasearch facilities/Hospital affilation? TIA</p>
<p>I’m not sure how important they are; obviously good ones are better. How much better, I’m not sure.</p>
<p>It’s generally a good idea to go to professors who know you the best; having them for indepedent study or taking their classes multiple times are both very common tendencies in letter seeking.</p>
<p>All the possibilities you mentioned were good ideas.</p>
<p>Ideally, a school that has both would be better; I suppose in theory you could always get research opportunities no matter which school you go to.</p>
<p>You application would look better, however, doing lots of research going to a middle-tier school compared to doing no research going to a top-tier school.</p>
<p>I am sorry to stop the flow of conversation, and i apologize for being a newb, but I am in high school and have a 4.0 . Can anyone just give me general advice to how i can get into a good medical school. I have tried researching, but i only got generalized facts. I was hoping someone would have concrete knowledge.
One more thing, i am interested in Pre Med programs, but incase i dont get into them, which is a strong likelihood, what alternate majjor will be best for a person who wants to do medical?</p>
<p>I would appreciate anyone who could help me with that issue. Thanks guys.</p>
<p>to get into med school is almost the same process as getting into good undergrad school. get good gpa, mcat, have some extracurricular activities, etc…</p>
<p>major in anything you want; all you need to do to be considered premed is to take basic premed science classes(bio, chem, ochem, physics, math)</p>
<p>Ashezz, without a more specific question, I’m afraid all you’re going to get is generalized facts.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.bestpremed.com/index.htm[/url]”>http://www.bestpremed.com/index.htm</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://people.howstuffworks.com/becoming-a-doctor.htm[/url]”>http://people.howstuffworks.com/becoming-a-doctor.htm</a></p>
<p>Those along with talking to doctors/med students and this forum gave me a pretty good idea of what it takes to be a doctor.</p>
<p>Ok, id like to rephrase my question since it is not the most specific. Does it really matter what major i do. So like what i meant was that, is it aight to do majors like polisci and stuff which isnt really related to the medical field?</p>
<p>yes…a quick glance at previous threads would reveal this answer easily.</p>
<p>Most of the previous threads talk about peopel who are already in med school and have had high GPA’s. But personally that is not possible for me, since i wasnt in this country for freshman year. So i want really have GPA’s as high as others who will be applying to colleges will have since i didnt have weighted classes. But like for example what moajor should i take at schools like UCLA, UCI, UCSD to say. Me getting into schools like those is a guaranteed act though.</p>
<p>Ashezz, I don’t understand what you just said.</p>
<p>If you are asking about a major, the answer is: major in something you really love and will excel at. There are no right answers to this.</p>
<p>Thats all i wanted to know, whether colleges give more preference to certain majors rather than others.</p>
<p>Ashezz, part of what’s making it difficult is that you seem to be confusing the various stages.</p>
<p>“College”, to me, usually implies “undergraduate school”. It is at this stage that most people seem to be obsessing about having high GPAs. The next stage is “Medical School” admissions. For this process, there is no such thing as a weighted class, because medical schools do not pay any attention to such things.</p>
<p>Very few of the students on this board are actually in medical school yet - I believe there’s one?</p>
<p>Thats fine, i did get the various aspects of schooling, the undergrad school and the med school. But thanks for clarifying again as well as for the help.</p>
<p>Hey guys I’m hoping for some advice on where to go for undergrad</p>
<p>Here’s the my problem. Due to my parents not being able to pay for a tier 2 private college, I am pretty much forced to attend one of my state schools (SUNY). Now I got accepted into SUNY-Albany, Binghamton, Geneseo, Buffalo, and Stony Brook. Out of those five I decided it was either Binghamton or Stony Brook. My mother wants me to go to Binghamton as it’s pretty much the best of the SUNY’s but then again Stony Brook has a reputation for being decent in science; Out of those two does it really matter where I chose to go? I really am not interested in Binghamton solely because the town is in the middle of the state and I know I’l be stuck on campus during all times. I’m going to visit Stony Brook next week but I hear that they have renovated a lot of their buildings and such. What I failed to tell you guys earlier was that bingamton actually put me on a waitlist while accepting me for Spring 2007. </p>
<p>Thus I suppose I should go to Stony Brook for the first semester and see if I like it or not; and if I don’t, then Binghamton would be where I would transfer.
Again I know that undergrad doesn’t matter too much but I still want to go to the better of the two. </p>
<p>Thank you guys for attempting to read my “wall of text” and I really do appreciate all your opinions. Good Night ^_^</p>