KeeblerElf

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Originally posted by twu

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Originally posted by jaidev86

Could you please give me a list of aamc schools that do not require the mcats. Thanks.

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The majority of AAMC medical schools require the MCAT as an admission requirement. There are fewer than five, I believe, that don’t require the MCAT and the only two that come to mind are Brown University and either the University of Rochester or Georgetown.

In any event, the complete list of AAMC schools that don’t require the MCAT can be found on the AAMC website or through the AAMC’s annual pubilcation of Medical School Admissions Requirements (MSAR).

Good luck to you.

Timothy Wu, MD
AdmissionsConsultants
703.242.5885

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That is news to me! I didn’t know few schools did not require the MCAT scores. Do you or anyone else know why this is so? Are those schools basing their students’ competitiveness on grades, essays, and volunteer experiences but not student MCAT scores?

Keebs

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wow, you chewed him up and spit him out all over the South and in the Caribean!

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Originally posted by thymol_blue

…to DO (osteopathic) Schools, and to Carribean medical schools — you’ll get into both. You’d just waste your money applying to regular med schools through AMCAS — unless you happen to live in Alabama or Missisippi or a couple of other states where your numbers are actually close to “competitive” for the med schools there. For most other schools in most other states, you’re not even in the same ballpark as “competitive”. Sorry if it sounds harsh.

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[KeeblerElf]

hello
I keep hearing about how an MD and a DO are interchangeable..at least in the DO to MD direction.

My orthopedic surgeon graduated from an Osteopathic medical school (chicago college of osteopathic medicine). But his business cards and hospital staff label him (in writing) as “Dr. such and such M.D.”—NOT D.O.
How is that possible?
Is it possible for a DO student to become M.D.?
I know D.O.’s usually become primary docs..but this guy is an orthopedic surgeon.

I am contemplating an allopathic school but I was curious anyway about the D.O.

Thanks
Nate

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Dear experts:
I am 26yo and am attending Loyola University at Chicago. I have a few concerns/questions about my chances of getting accepted into any medical school:

I will be 28yo when I graduate college from Loyola. Is this a not-so-good thing for medical schools?

Also, I went to another university (UIC)prior to Loyola, and I did terribly: I got a few F’s and even got kicked out of the university for not doing well. I was a “ward of the state” child and it was very tough to make it on my own after high school because I did not have family or financial support. Anyway, after I got kicked out, I went to a community college and got my act together as I got straight A’s in all my courses! I applied to Loyola Univeristy and showed them all my past transcripts(UIC & Community College) and was easily accepted. I was even offered 2 scholarships because of my GPA from Oakton Comm. College. Now this is all great, and I am happy yet concerned that because medical schools are competitive, they will hold my UIC past transcripts against me. I am doing quite well at Loyola maintaining a 3.7 GPA and have a 30 on my MCAT. I know you cannot tell me if I will be able to get into medical school, but could you tell me if I have good odds? Should I put in the effort and money?? I considered other career fields but none has interested ever so much like Medicine. I have a great interest in it. I feels it’s a calling=)

Thanks for taking time out to read my essay here.
Keebler Elf

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