Siena overnight campus visit

MMood87
Tue, 01 Mar 2005 13:33:56 +0000

uh actually u need a 3.6+ not a 3.5.

percentage goes roughly like this for admission 1) 45 percent GPA 2) 40 percent MCAT 3) 15 percent e.c.s

1) GPA must be at least 3.6 if you want to be guaranteed 2) MCAT is out of 45 points, a good score (that will get you acceptance) is a 28-31. However, do not make the mistake that a super high mcat score and a low GPA will get you into medical school. Med. school has a filtering system that rejects students automatically if they have a low gpa from the beginning. 3) E.c.s should involve volunteer work (1000+ hours over 4 years is good, become an emergency technician (takes some certificatino first), be a t.a., reesearch work and publish a paper in a medical jounral for instance)).

u do not major in pre-med because 1) its a small group of classes that you take to satisfy the med. school pre-reqs (full year of english, general biology, general chemistry, calculus, noncalc physics, and organic chemistry) 2) major in something u like and will do well in (don’t major in physics if u like it but will get a 3.0 in because u won’t get into med. school))

i’m going to major in anthro. and minor in computer science

studying for the mcats should involve at least 150 hours (usually 200 hours) to be guaraneted a 30 at least (unless you’re stupid or not studying right)

and be warned that every university/college in the country is supercompetitive for pre-meds. thus, the pre-reqs (english, bio, chem, etc…), are very hard and are called “weeder” courses (because the professors like to make gettings As in the class very difficult and for a few students).