How difficult will it be?

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>Hi, I am an undergrad student in an Ivy League University majoring in Neuroscience and Behavior and a pre-med concetration. I already have a BA in Psychology but from another country. My psychology GPA was 4.0 and my Neurocience GPA for the moment is 3.9, while pre-med im trying to push it up to a 3.6. I have planty of work experience as a research assistant. What else, ohh and I speak 5 languages, learning the 6th.</p>

<p>Assuming that I might get above 30 on MCAT, how compatitive will it be for me to get into medical school?</p>

<p>Thanks in advance.</p>

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<p>It sounds to me like you’ll get into medical school somewhere. I think it’s premature to discuss this without a reliable MCAT score to work with, but I think it’s possible for you to narrow your GPA down. Schools aren’t interested in your major GPA, they’re interested in two things:</p>

<p>(1) Your overall GPA
(2) Your “BCPM” (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Math) GPA</p>

<p>Probably only the GPA from your current school will matter.</p>

<p>If the latter is a 3.5 or so, then I think you’re probably a bit on the weaker side, but not dramatically so, and an MCAT score above 30 would certainly get you in somewhere.</p>

<p>Still, the verbal section is very brutal, especially for somebody who went to college overseas. Study hard. Remember, your score breakdown is as important as your overall total.</p>

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<p>I am aware that the verbal section is brutal, however, it can not be harder that what we go through at CU as international students.</p>

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<p>It’s not so much that the questions are hard - although they are - it’s that you’re really not allowed to miss very many at all. If I recall correctly, you basically lose a point for every question you miss; sometimes two questions correspond to one point. Of course, there are 60 questions and 15 points. Not a good ratio.</p>

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<p>As strange as it may sound (being foreigner), the verbal section isn’t my main concerne. It is the BCPM part that is terrifying me. In the pre-med program they are drilling us at the point that we have no social life whatsoever.</p>