Advice Please!!!!!!! Soo Depressed!

[abrown15]

can i get any of your guys' gpa and mcats?
really appreciate it.
i have a
gpa: 3.0
science 2.8
biochem major.
lots of volunteer and medical internships, and research
mcatL 16

what do you honestly think, i am soo depressed!
any comments would be helpful.
thanks

[wcb22]

don't get so down on your credentials. just realize med school will work you, you'll have to pick up the pace. people do make it with those GPAs and MCATs, just realize odds are already a little against you. but you CAN do it, just dedicate yourself.

one more thing to mention on your credentials... what's your credit score? hehe

[wendyalexandra]

don't get so down on your credentials. just realize med school will work you, you'll have to pick up the pace. people do make it with those GPAs and MCATs, just realize odds are already a little against you. but you CAN do it, just dedicate yourself.

one more thing to mention on your credentials... what's your credit score? hehe

No, seriously, do you have a good credit score?

[saffronpimpernel]

First-DO NOT APPLY at MUA,Belize...they are a unstable school.They may or may not cheat you, all depends on the situation.

Second-Apply here-------AUA(expensive),St Matthews,St Eustacia,Unibe,MUA(NEVIS) ofcourse you can also apply to SGA,Saba,AUC,Ross etc (but they are kind of Too GPA/MCAT
centric)


Dont give up!Everyone is becoming a doctor now,even people who
went to the army,imagine!

Cheerup!!

[stephew]

consider retaking your mcats. it would improve your application considerablly.

[BillyBill]

DO APPLY TO MUA BELIZE..it's an excellent established university. about 6 years old, several graduates, several students rocking board exams, clinicals in USA, a permanent campus, and owned and operated by an AMERICAN staff.

[jadedKnight]

Once again, corrections need to be made to posts.

I don't know what is meant by "AMERICAN staff". The people at the US office are Americans. As for the people at the campus in Belize, the ladies that do office & cafeteria work at the school are Belizean. As for the faculty, MUAB currently lists the following faculty on their website
Pedro Arriaga - Central American - trained in Guatemala
Nery De La Rosa - Belizean, (no longer with the school)
Natalie Gibson - American - trained in US
Marcos Mendez - Central American - trained in Guatemala
***** ******** - American, an owner - MD from AUC, no residency
Giovanni Solorzano - Central American - trained in Guatemala
Javier Zuniga - Central American - trained in Cuba

They used to have several good American (and US trained) faculty, but they all left.

Please people, tell the truth.

[medical17]

jadedKnight . . . You rock! The truth is always the way to go, and it is always attainable when one looks at verifiable sources. I also find it somewhat disrespectful to word "AMERICAN Staff" in the tone which has been used here. I am not quite sure how to take that . . . What are your thoughts on how this was worded?

[StodeMD]

....just look around at his posts.

abrown15...(not commenting on the mcat) those scores are not that low. You really do have to ask yourself if you have a higher situational intelligence (ability to think on your feet and react quickly with information you've learned) than those gpa would indicate. Maybe you just weren't trying that hard? I've been there at times. It just SEEMS COMMON SENSE TO ME this will be more important getting to licencure (through the clerkship and residency hoops doing well), than being able to do really well on testing.

Re-taking the mcat is not NECESSARY, maybe helpful. THINK ABOUT MUA-Nevis pre-med, even if you have done some of the same sciences already. IF you just weren't trying so hard, but now have changed your heart, there's a place to apply yourself and score well, and move on. If you get 3.0 in their pre-med, you auto. have a seat in med1. CALL THEM AND VERIFY IF THIS IS STILL TRUE.

THERE ARE MANY OPTIONS.

You do have to do well enough on USMLE's to get residency, but depending upon the specialty you choose, you can have average usmle's.

Some stuff to think about. PEOPLE GET INTO MUA-Nevis with those gpa's, believe me. AND MUA-Nevis is real, with real presetup rotation sites, etc., just like SABA, Ross, SGU...

Ps. I am not an add for MUA Nevis, they don't need any adds. I am just a very happy, satisfied, elated incoming student.

[jadedKnight]

Medical17,

I think using "AMERICAN staff" in this context is bigotted but was used because some people think US students would be more comfortable with an "AMERICAN staff". I would prefer to go to a school run by people of the country the school is in, if they are running it for the right reasons - to give people a good, solid medical education. Unfortunately, many of the US-owned Caribbean schools are money cows for their owners. Just think of it: for each student they get ~25k/year. X 10 students-250k/year, X 100 students (25 students/class)-2.5M/year. Need I continue?

[StodeMD]

Why would you be worried about the difference between 5 and 8k/semester? YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR.

When you're an MD, will you give your care for free, or discounted, or about the same as everyone else, up or down a little per cost, area, etc...

THIS SEEMS LIKE AN IRRELEVANT ISSUE TO ME.

[k_tanaka]

DO APPLY TO MUA BELIZE..it's an excellent established university. about 6 years old, several graduates, several students rocking board exams, clinicals in USA, a permanent campus, and owned and operated by an AMERICAN staff.

Excellent established university??? How far have they gone in the past 6 years of being established??????

Compare the dates of when these schools got their charter and have made initial strides to get somewhere:

MUA - NEVIS : Medical University Of The Americas - www.mua.edu (http://mua.edu./index_historyofmua.php)

St. Matthews: Charters and Accreditations, Credentials, Florida Provisional License, Caribbean Medical Schools, Offshore Medical Schools, Foreign Medical Schools - St. Matthews School of Medicine (http://stmatthews.edu/credentials.html)

AUA : AUA History (http://auamed.org/med/Overview/AUA_History/aua_history.html)


what do you honestly think, i am soo depressed!
any comments would be helpful.
thanks

As steph advised...... try rewriting the mcats to get a better score. Then go to a better school. Do not take the easy way out..........

[Dr.Azimi]

when ross, auc, st.goerge started and wore 5-6 year old they were well estabillshed, so the students that went to that school back then i guess wore all wrong of going
but if those students never went the schools wouldnt have gotten to be estabilshed.
I for one know what this forum is all about, people are all enviest, they have jobs or they dont have lives so they bash schools, but the truth of the matter is MUA-B well one day be where St.goerge is probally when your kids want to attend, as long as people attend the school the school saves enough money to do the thigns they have to do to succeed.

Go to MUA-B