<p>i’m in slu med scholars and am now a junior. I haven’t been on college confidential in a while and randomly found this thread. Anyhow, I took just took the MCAT and I would first have to say that it is awesome to be in a program that takes your worries off the MCAT. You have to maintain a 3.5 (which is difficult btw, we started with ~100 students and how are down to ~30) but your score does not matter to get in! The average student still scores 28-30. SLUs average mcat score is a 32.5, GPA 3.7/3.7. These average stats are pretty high. For me, if I score lower than a 33, I will be staying at SLU. i have researched this school head to tail and have to tell you that it is a remarkable school that is underrated due to cost, size, and washu next door. usnews rankings mean nothing, especially since half of the rating goes to funding and “random” doctor opinions. Results are biased. SLU has been doing pretty remarkable things with its young research center that opened 2 years ago. This year it housed the head team of the H1N1 vaccine which was recently all over the news. Finally, the matchlist that SLU offers is pretty great. Just check out the website and notice the specialties matched. Last year SLU had the highest scoring USMLE step 1 student in the country. One last thing, yes cost is an issue (even for me though I only say good things about this school) but I feel that SLU is a good choice for you/your child if they have aspirations to do clinical doctoral work. Any phd/research type stuff should be achieved at a different school because our research body is so young and poorly funded as compared to cheaper/larger state institutions and gargantuan schools like hopkins, harvard and washu.</p>
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