Med school

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>Ok so I’m a student at UCLA
My major is Psychology and a minor in philosophy. cGpa 3.99 sGpa 3.95
The problem is that i am a transfer student I took gen chem and gen bio at my local cc because it was required to transfer! I took 1 quarter of ochem at ucla and got a A-
I have 200 hours of clinical experience
100hrs of shadowing a doctor
300 hrs of being a musical director at my local church
Im also An officer at for a philsophy club at my school
Lastly mcat score is a 38. This year there was no essay thank God!
Idk if it matters but I am black/Ethiopian
Does taking 90%of my premed courses at a cc hurt my chances even with my current stats? I wanted to save money by transferring! If it does hurt my chances what schools should I apply to then</p>

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<p>I think the Student Doctor Network will be more helpful than CC in your situation…</p>

<p>However, what med schools do you want to attend? I think even Stanford, JHU, Mayo Clinic might be within reach.</p>

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<p>What is your UCLA specific GPA? That will be the crux. You just have to demonstrate your gpa isnt inflated from CC, although being black with a 38 MCAT I doubt it will matter. Just to be clear, you’re an American citizen of Ethiopian descent when you say you’re black/Ethiopian, right?</p>

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<p>Yea I’m American with Ethiopian decent. Also my UClA GPA is a 3.82 I can bring it up though in my last year, but idk it may drop, worst case scenario, to a 3.75 at UCLA. Will that hurt it too much?</p>

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<p>I would love to go somewhere within California with an exception of WU, such as USC, UCLA, UCI, WU, UCSD, UCSF, But you really think Stanford?</p>

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<p>To be safe you should probably look at schools outside of california but if you apply to the right range of schools you’re chances of getting into A medical school are pretty absurd as a black person with numbers like that: <a href=“https://www.aamc.org/download/321514/data/2012factstable25-2.pdf[/url]”>https://www.aamc.org/download/321514/data/2012factstable25-2.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>When I said inflated I didn’t mean “higher” I meant more that like you weren’t in a situation where you had a 4.0 at your CC and then your GPA tanked at UCLA. That obviously doesn’t apply to you so I don’t think the CC courses will be an issue.</p>

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<p>with your mcat score and grades, you should have no problem getting into med school</p>