Japanese Major

bluedevilmike
Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:09:40 +0000

We’ve actually had a long discussion about how to conceptualize medical school admissions, since it doesn’t seem quite right to say that GPA/MCAT are either the most important or… anything other than that.

Ultimately I’ve started thinking of the process as a series of hoops to jump through first, then a process of differentiating yourself. GPA/MCAT are crucial hoops, but they’re only one among many (and not the best of them, frankly) ways of standing out after that.