Missing Personal Statement
I am a re-applicant for this 2021 cycle after a rejected application last year. I made an unfortunate discovery when looking over last year's application that I had not added my personal statement essay to my primary application. After spending months writing this essay, I'm sure you can imagine that I am kicking myself over this massive oversight...
I'm wondering how this affected my applications. My statistics are not extremely competitive for the MD programs I applied to: 502 and 507...
Missing Personal Statement (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - June 6, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: sydneyecross Tags: Re-Applicants [ MD / DO ] Source Type: forums
WAMC Canadian, First Time Applicant, Low DAT
Date of submission: July 1st 2020
Overall GPA: ~3.65 (3.7 by time of graduation)
Science GPA: ~ 3.6 (not sure if A&P and statistics count here)
Bio-Chem-Physics GPA: ~3.6 (3.7 after retakes)
DAT score (include AA and all sections): Bio: 18, GC: 18, TS: 18, RC: 23, PAT: 19, AA: 20 (I'll be taking the American DAT as soon as I can [Sept?] and the Canadian DAT once again in Nov)
State of Residence: Canada
Undergrad Attended: York University...
WAMC Canadian, First Time Applicant, Low DAT (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - June 5, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: lebron23 Tags: What Are My Chances? WAMC Dental Source Type: forums
Guys, to be blunt, what are my changes? Should I give up?
I am 23, just graduated with BA with a 2.992 in an irrelevant major with no prerequisites except maybe statistics with I got a A-
Let say if I do a post-bacc with all the prereqs and will:
- provide clinical/shadowing experiences
- let's imagine I will get a 3.5 to 3.7 GPA in the post bacc
-Let say a 505 in the MCAT
Experiences so far:
worked as a part-time direct support professional and took care of autistic children for around 2 years during college
Hobbies:
can draw on a hyperrealism...
Guys, to be blunt, what are my changes? Should I give up? (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - June 3, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: drhong Tags: Nontraditional Students Source Type: forums
Canadian Match Statistics
Hey, looking for some hope as a Canadian student hoping to specialize. From the 2019 "Combined Phase I & II Statistics for Applicants" (Dental Match | Statistics of the Match) the proportion of Canadian grads that actually match seem incredibly low - almost unrealistically and discouragingly low.
For instance, for the 230 OMS spots available, 2 Canadian grads matched or for the 294 Ped spots, 4 Canadian grads matched. Is there some...
Canadian Match Statistics (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - June 1, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: CanadianBoiii Tags: Dental Residents and Practicing Dentists Source Type: forums
Help with MD/PhD school list. (522/3.90)
Hi guys! I'm applying MD/PhD this upcoming cycle and was wondering if I could get help with my current school list. My profile right now is:
Profile: Rising senior at top 10 undergrad (no gap year), double majoring in Biology and Statistics, Asian
State: Ohio
cGPA: 3.90
BCPM GPA: 3.91
MCAT: 522
Research: Worked in a basic science lab since freshman year, have had 3 in-school summer research fellowship grants. However, no publications from this lab and only one poster at an in-school...
Help with MD/PhD school list. (522/3.90) (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - May 27, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: MD2025-applicant Tags: What Are My Chances? WAMC Medical Source Type: forums
Pharmacy schools now accept more than 80% of applicants
The host of the Pharmacy Leaders Podcast posted these admissions statistics first on Facebook, where I got the idea for this article.
One experienced pharmacist commented on the thread,
When I graduated in 2001 the running joke was if you have a license and a pulse pharmacies throw money at you to hire you. Now it should be “Do you have a pulse and an approved loan application? We’ll take you!
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Pharmacy schools now accept more than 80% of applicants (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - May 16, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: jkdoctor Tags: Pre-Pharmacy Source Type: forums
Classifying deaths from COVID-19: Why the official statistics will never reflect the true mortality from coronavirus, and how future studies could try to address this
(Source: BMJ Comments)
Source: BMJ Comments - May 10, 2020 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
Pharmacy Career Choice/ Pharmacy Outlook
This is to concentrate views from recent grads or soon to be graduating to give TRUTHFUL accounts of the profession. I’m seeing a lot of misinformation and it is our job to be transparent for anyone looking to go into the profession. I’ll just post the job outlook from the Bureau Labor of Statistics Pharmacists : Occupational Outlook Handbook : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - May 4, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: x_plojin Tags: Pharmacy Source Type: forums
Re: Covid-19: Leading statistician slams UK ’s reporting of swab tests as “travesty of science”
(Source: BMJ Comments)
Source: BMJ Comments - May 1, 2020 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
Re: Covid-19: Leading statistician slams UK ’s reporting of swab tests as “travesty of science” What is the backround rate, Pillar 4?
(Source: BMJ Comments)
Source: BMJ Comments - April 28, 2020 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
Organic Chem Class, Genetics, Bio statistics, and Sociology in One semester (15 credits)... Will this be Hard?
This semester I have to take Organic Chem with the lab, Bio statistics I, Genetics, and Sociology for 15 credits. I've already taken all of my easier courses so now all I'm left with are harder science courses. Do you guys think this will be manageable?
And then next semester I would have to take Animal Phys, biochemistry, Intro to Methods in Biotechnology, Physics with lab and philosophy of science (also 15 credits).
Should I move anything around or should this schedule be fine. (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - April 25, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Ivygisselle28 Tags: Pre-Medical - MD Source Type: forums
What should I take next year...
So I’m going to be a freshmen in undergrad next year, and I’m picking my classes. I know that I may have to do online next semester, so that would change what I can take. Anyways, I have enough credits towards my bio major to have chem 1&2 done, and bio1 done. So I’ll for sure take bio 2 next fall, and statistics in the spring, but as far as chem classes, my next set is organic chem 1 with lab and organic chem 2 with lab. I was thinking of doing those both next year, 1 in fall and 2 in...
What should I take next year... (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - April 21, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Kota1000 Tags: Pre-Veterinary Source Type: forums
WAMC - Non-traditional applicant: 2020-2021 cycle
cGPA: 3.73
I'm not sure exactly how it will all calculate since I transferred and took some CC classes during high school/summer, plus a few online classes during break/after graduating, but I did a quick estimate and it seems to shake out to 3.73-3.74.
sGPA: 3.6? This is strictly chemistry, biology, organic chemistry, physics, math, statistics, biochem, and cell & molecular bio -- not sure if I should include things like genetics, metabolic nutrition, kinesiology...
WAMC - Non-traditional applicant: 2020-2021 cycle (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - April 17, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: GarbanzoMD Tags: What Are My Chances? WAMC Medical Source Type: forums
Transferring from CC with statistics - do I have to take algebra?
Hey guys confusing title but let me explain. I am transferring from a community college to a 4 year CSU to study pre med. I completed statistics at my community college, but one of the pre requisites for chemistry at the 4 year university is Alegbra I and II. I never took algebra, but statistics is technically a higher class than Algebra and transferable (whereas Algebra is a non-transferable lower division class) so do you think they will make me take Algebra to meet the pre req - or is...
Transferring from CC with statistics - do I have to take algebra? (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - April 14, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: jimbraggs Tags: Pre-Medical - MD Source Type: forums
How did you explain a dip in your GPA during undergrad?
So I'm about to graduate with a B.S. Geography (3.4 GPA) in about 3 weeks and go right to work. I'll be starting a DIY PostBacc as the only BCPM classes I have are 2 math courses that I had to take to graduate (Algebra & Statistics). Looking back at my undergrad career my GPA took a drastic dip my junior year. I had a positive trend my first two years but then I dropped to a 2.9 GPA when averaging out the junior year semesters. Senior year has been my best ending with a 4.0 this semester...
How did you explain a dip in your GPA during undergrad? (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - April 11, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Nate_Dawg Tags: Nontraditional Students Source Type: forums
