<p>What is the typical cost that goes into application process per school?
How much would someone like [MDapplicants.com</a> - View Profile](<a href=“http://www.mdapplicants.com/viewprofile.php?id=2952]MDapplicants.com”>http://www.mdapplicants.com/viewprofile.php?id=2952) have paid in total at the end?</p>
<p>Eh, he got into med school. Worse could’ve happened.</p>
<p>You don’t need to be rich but you do need rich parents. Otherwise, you’ll have to take out loans just to pay for the application process. What’s another $3000 tacked onto the $150,000 you’ll have to borrow for med school?</p>
<p>norcalguy and bdm, do both of you think that the applicant in the link above was rejected by so many schools because he has no activities that would indicate any interest or knowledge of medicine?</p>
<p>Possibly. His 3.4 GPA might have something to do with it also. Him being Canadian is another reason. Some schools, like Yale, treat international applicants the same as US applicants. Some schools, like Penn, make it very tough for internationals. This is why he should’ve invested $25 in the MSAR. It would’ve saved him a lot of moeny.</p>
<p>The fact is, he applied to a bunch of schools he had no chance at. Columbia, Harvard, JHU, WHY???!!!</p>
<p>He applied to 43 schools. 12 were Canadian. I can’t comment on the Canadian application process but they are very stats oriented. If you don’t mee the cutoff, you get an automatic rejection. He was rejected from 2 US schools pre-sec for not being a citizen. Should’ve done better research before wasting his money. Take out all of the Top 30 US med schools (I counted around 15 of them) and you’re down to 14 reasonable US med schools (obviously schools like BU or Tufts will still be reaches but I’m trying to be generous here). He got 4 interviews to those 14 reasonable schools which is not a bad ratio. </p>
<p>My point being: He clearly had money to blow. He applied to schools he knew (or should’ve known) he had no shot at. Don’t let the long list of rejections scare you.</p>
<p>^So a great MCAT won’t offset a semi-low gpa? Or does that just show that the guy was lazy in undergrad?</p>
<p>As with everything, it depends. A 3.6/32 is probably about the same as a 3.7/30. This doesn’t mean a 2.6/41 is the same as a 3.6/31. You have to be decent in both areas. A 3.45, being international and having no clinical experience, cannot be offset by a decent MCAT score. I think he did pretty well actually.</p>
<p>Edit: I also noticed that he was complete very late at many of his schools. He did REALLY well then.</p>
<p>Don’t forget, the kid’s 37 was unbalanced, and in any case that’s not particularly above-average at some of the schools he applied to: Harvard, Hopkins, Duke, Vanderbilt, Penn, Columbia, Cornell, Stanford, Yale? The 11’s alone are probably enough to keep him out, but even a balanced 37 won’t work in your favor at those schools – it’s just not a negative. But he’s asking his MCAT score to make up for his GPA, late application, and lack of EC’s, and it’s just not going to do that. (Would take a ~41 to make up for the GPA alone, and even then might require an elite undergrad.)</p>
<p>how much is it to apply per school?</p>
<p>Hm. A little math.</p>
<p>$90 MCAT
$330 AMCAS
$30<em>43 Primary
$75</em>39 Secondary (approx.)
$300*4 Interview (approx.)</p>
<p>Comes out to about $6000. He’s “lucky” not to have gotten more interviews than he did. We might also add in the $1600 for a prep course.</p>
<p>ah i see, thanks</p>