look into statia, reasonable price!

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M.L. Taylor, MSIII
University of Sint Eustatius School of Medicine
Rotating

I just got accepted to Saba for the January 09' class. My cumulative GPA was 3.1, and my science was 2.8. My MCAT was 19O.

So, pretty much, everyone has a fair chance at getting in. My academics were terrible, but I had a lot of other things to back it up: Volunteering, I was in collegiate athletics, and I currently work at the Mayo Clinic.

So, I hope that gives a little bit more confidence in their application!!

January 09' !?!?!? WOW that's a long wait time.

Woops, I meant January of 07'. I am at work, and have been looking at numbers all day.

How do I look?

3.71 GPA biology major, chemistry/HPER minor

No MCAT but soon (haven't studied)

Two years varsity baseball

Two years volunteering in the community

Little to no clinical experience

Phi Theta Kappa, Tri Beta

Also won some awards in Life Sciences and Physics

I've also attended a Junior College and a Regional University.

Thanks

apply to u.s. med schools. with those grades, you have a good chance. don't go caribb if you don't have to. you'd be making more trouble for yourself than needed.

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Why are you applying to a caribbean school?

Study for the MCATs, take them, and apply to a US school. With even half-decent MCAT scores (say 28) you'd certainly get a DO school slot, and very possibly an allopathic school.

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"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

--Theodore Roosevelt

All of my advisors have told me that i don't really have much of a chance since my grades dropped from the junior college to the university and I made a C in organic I and I just dropped organic II cause I was doing really bad.

So I guess what makes me think that I don't have a shot is that Im not really going to great schools and I have had some trouble. I won't be taking organic II until next spring so I guess I'll be applying with out it.


sorry for the rant guys

Well, those advisors aren't physicians, are they? Typically, they're people who couldn't get into med school themselves and are bitter.

You will have to complete Ochem II for Saba. Just do it, and do as well as you can.

However, if you get decent MCAT scores, apply to US MD and DO schools - all you have to lose is a few bucks.

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"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

--Theodore Roosevelt

If you really dont want to take the 2nd orgo, just take a Biochem instead.
Saba will equate it as ur 2nd orgo.