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wooohooo · 03-17-2011, 10:10 PM

You're still young but just know you're at the beginning of a very long journey. You really have to have your heart in it.

Most schools looks at 1. GPA 2. MCAT 3. Extracurricular.

There are schools that favor more GPA for example UA, or more round student/mature student (UC). So you need to look at what they look at but in reality, all schools need a high GPA (above 3.5) and high MCAT and extracurricular activities.

So try to raise your pre-reqs as they count as double (prereq average and total gpa) and get a solid MCAT score. Also for extracurricular they like people that have leadership skills, so if you're the president of some club you get points for that. Volunteer at the hospital, shadow a doctor and a really good one is do research for a professor and try to get published. Huge points there.

So after that, you're pretty much set to have an interview and then that in itself is another story.

If you have a lot of money, go to school in Ireland, Australia or the States. The only difficulty in coming back is getting a residency but if you're okay with working in some small tiny town with 300 people you should be okay. Again it's really how committed you are.

PM me if you have anymore questions or ask them here

03-17-2011, 10:10 PM	#13
wooohooo #1 Goaltender Join Date: Apr 2006 Exp:	You're still young but just know you're at the beginning of a very long journey. You really have to have your heart in it. Most schools looks at 1. GPA 2. MCAT 3. Extracurricular. There are schools that favor more GPA for example UA, or more round student/mature student (UC). So you need to look at what they look at but in reality, all schools need a high GPA (above 3.5) and high MCAT and extracurricular activities. So try to raise your pre-reqs as they count as double (prereq average and total gpa) and get a solid MCAT score. Also for extracurricular they like people that have leadership skills, so if you're the president of some club you get points for that. Volunteer at the hospital, shadow a doctor and a really good one is do research for a professor and try to get published. Huge points there. So after that, you're pretty much set to have an interview and then that in itself is another story. If you have a lot of money, go to school in Ireland, Australia or the States. The only difficulty in coming back is getting a residency but if you're okay with working in some small tiny town with 300 people you should be okay. Again it's really how committed you are. PM me if you have anymore questions or ask them here