Medical School

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by Kappamd

I pretty much agree with AOII Angel. SOMETHING has to stand out, whether it be your MCAT score, your GPA (science AND cumulative), etc. The average MCAT score is around a 31-32 now, and I would say he needs at least that to feel confident in his chances. I personally had just "average" MCAT scores, but I also had above a 3.8 GPA and a TON of extracurricular activites, both medical and non-medical. I interviewed at in-state schools only, but that's because I wanted to stay in state, and we have a LOT of medical schools here.

As for reference materials, he should get the MSAR.

https://www.aamc.org/students/applyi...irements/msar/

Scores are going up! Of course, I went to school in 1997.

[AOEforme]

I concur. I know one person in my class with a 27 MCAT score, and he had a 4.0 from Northwestern.

I personally had a not-as-stellar GPA but an awesome MCAT score and two difficult majors along with a million extracurricular and research papers.

The nice thing is that, overall, you can balance weak aspects of your application with other strong parts. However, some schools prefer a strong GPA to a strong MCAT.

I went online and looked at the websites of all the schools I wanted to apply to. I figured out (based on their previous class statistics) which ones I had a good chance at and applied there.