Wayne State almost FULL scholarship, Med School, HELP!

N_s_Mom
Tue, 10 Feb 2015 14:08:39 +0000

Here’s the data you need: https://www.aamc.org/data/facts/applicantmatriculant/157998/mcat-gpa-grid-by-selected-race-ethnicity.html

Medical schools are much less interested in prestige than they are in your GPA and MCAT (follow by the committee letter, which is an aggregated letter of recommendation from the college). For medical school, it’s better to be a debt free star student than an indebted middle of the pack at a more competitive place. Check with WSU about their medical school advising (they should have a student club around that subject) and how good the prep is for your MCAT (do they offer a prep class on campus?). You’ll still need to self study, but assuming the pre-reqs are well taught, you can do them anywhere.

S is a 3d hr med student right now and EM is on his radar. As T26E4 mentioned, he got his first exposure as a volunteer EMT. Now that he’s doing rotations in the hospital, he’s discovering new passions, so there’s time to evolve as you go along. But EMT training was a great start and got him in the door, first volunteering and then doing volunteer training and research at a community health clinic. He attended a small mid-western LAC that no one in our east coast urban area had ever heard of (although now it’s quite popular at his old high school since word gets around…)

By the way, check out Atul Gwande’s wonderful books about being a doc. “Better” is inspiring. S has read all his books.