I didn't have much difficulty in being admitted. I had a 3.3 with good grades in only freshman and senior years plus misc. summer sessions. My MCAT was 32, however.
I didn't have much difficulty in being admitted. I had a 3.3 with good grades in only freshman and senior years plus misc. summer sessions. My MCAT was 32, however.
I decided to defer for a year and raise my ugrad GPA at a local university and get some more ECs under my belt too. I'm happy with what I did. So far
1st, 2nd, and 4th years are identical to yours. My third year is even lower than my second
So I wrote a wonderful, eloquent masterpiece of prose last night right before I went to bed, but it's not here so I don't know what happened.yea, unfortunately i'm in california. I'm actually enrolled in two summer school elective classes after which I graduate, just in time for georgetown to start. So would it be wiser for me to enroll in 3 or 4 science classes which I got C's in and try to get A's, if you replace those C's with A's (is that how it works), i think I would get a reasonable gpa boost, the extra $4k or so would be worth if it means I get into medical school. Also if my MCAT is 33+, I could probably apply late in this year's cycle, I'm just trying to get into any US school (don't care even if it's in idaho or wherever) Maybe then all hope is not lost
My immediate concern then for now is whether I should cancel my application to graduate after those two summer electives while I wait for a reply from Georgetown.
Yeah Georgetown is obscenely expensive. I wish I found about about Tulane sooner.
I'm just curious about how people are affording this at all.
I hear it's a fantastic place from everyone I've spoken with. My childhood memories aren't so fantastic, but I guess a lot has changed.So I had just finished my search for housing. Found a great place in Foxhall. I know the process can be a pain so if anyone has any questions, just ask.
I must say, Georgetown is going to be a great area for everyone coming in. Right from the moment I saw the Washington monument driving into town to having a stroll down M street, it was nothing but enjoyable. Good times.... right up until I was leaving DC and had a guy on his cell phone rear-end me while stopped at a redlight
Other than that, it was all gravy
Y'know, it occurred to me today that while this program is ridiculously expensive, it's not THAT bad. Stanford, after all, used to be the same price for undergrad. Now it's $52k. Stanford MBA is $80k.
While this still makes a large dent in my budget for actual med school, it could be much worse. I guess we've been spoiled by public schools
For most people in the SMP, they could not get admitted to medical school without it. Also, keep in mind that 80 to 85% of the class goes on to medical school. So down the road they will be making 150 to 200 thousand dollars a year BECAUSE they attended the SMP. If you come here and don't need it or don't get in because you don't work hard, then yea its a waste. But that applies to the Stanford MBA as well. Do you think that 100% of their graduates go on to make enough money to justify the degree? No...
I think you are wrong
The financial return for me with the SMP is huge. With a B.S. in Biology you will typically top out in the 60 thousand dollar per year range, after many years of working. Because I attended the SMP, and as a result am now going to be a medical student my eventual earning potential has gone up substantially.
So, it can be a good investment.
So I should've chosen a different example knowing that it'd be parsed out. The point of the post, which I hope wasn't lost, is that while this is a ridiculous price from the standpoint of students who went to public schools, it isn't that ridiculous in the grand scheme.
way for all of us all to do well. Since we're graded based upon how the med students do on exams, we should get the med school students to party hard right before exam days...now if all the smp-ers were to contribute to a "med school party fund" ...#1 is interesting, I admit
Ultimately, it really won't matter. The main purpose of the letter that is sent out is to let schools know the details of the program you are in. The method you said would certainly work, because during orientation you give them a list of the schools you have applied to so they can send the letter. You can add schools at any time. I've been thinking about this for a while now and want to bounce some ideas off all of you...so one thing that's been bugging me is the fact that Gtown sends letters to the med schools we apply to telling them to hold off on reading our application until first semester grades are out. I applied late last year which I think put me at a disadvantage and now, deja vu.
So I'm thinking about not disclosing to Gtown all the schools I'm applying to.
1. I think it would be possible for me to get into my state schools, independent of the smp. So why should I put myself at a disadvantage by having Gtown send them letters telling them to wait a semester to read my application? That way, if I don't get interviews by mid-semester, perhaps only then I could tell Gtown to send a letter, and this may prompt the adcoms to take a second look at my application. Of course I'll still write in my secondaries that I'm attending the smp, and they might decide to hold offanyway at that point, but at least it wouldn't be an explicit letter telling them to wait.
2. For other schools that are more likely to put my app in their discard pile upon a cursory glance, this is where I feel that the gtown letter would be of more benefit, so I would likely disclose on day 1 that I am applying to these schools to Gtown.
What do you guys think?
Btw, I thought of an ingenious
So there are only a hand full of schools that actually wait to review your app. This is the reason you will have a mound of rejections by the time christmas rolls around
July 24th. I'm finding balance between having time to explore and avoiding the weather.
