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This guy gets it.

He's been reading too many of those brochures from medical schools that say they look for well rounded applicants. Then he went online and found people who got in with low 3.0 GPAs and concludes:...

Really I said I had bad grades and took the MCAT? Strong ASSumption there buddy considering you don't know my GPA, major, or the fact that there is no record of me ever taking the MCAT at all. I...

And your poof backs up my argument all along that you need a high 3 GPA and 30 MCAT to be considered competitive. Which changes based on URM status or a lower GPA offset by a high MCAT. Nowhere did...

Its not the norm though. That's the whole point. The norm that makes you competitive for admission, as a non URM, is a high 3 GPA and at least a 30 MCAT.

Its actually a strong misconception to...

My Dad's a senior faculty member of a well known medical school. I don't know all the minutia of the adcoms and their process but I know enough to know what the process is truly like. All that...

Yeah keep believing that buddy. Every school has a set cutoff formula to streamline the admissions process. Whether they release that info publicly or not is an entirely different matter. Like I...

Look, ECs only come into play if you make their cutoff number. That cutoff number is based on GPA and MCAT score.

The 30 isn't the baseline number brah. Someone from my undergrad got into an allopathic school with a 27 MCAT and a 3.8.

Actually the rule is the lower your GPA, the higher your MCAT must be. You can't just say you don't need a 3.7 to get into med school. You have to refine that further and say you don't need a 3.7...

You never figured out the difference b/w exceptions and the general rule did you? All those guys had over 30 MCATs which offset their lower GPAs. One guy had a 35 MCAT. Find me substantial...

Yeah. The breakdown is totally different for URMs. A 3.2 and high 20s on the MCAT is enough to get into an allopathic for a URM but no way a non-URM applicant will get in with those numbers.

You didn't mention she was an underrepresented minority brah. That makes a world of difference.

I dispute your info about med schools. I know someone with a 3.3 chemistry major and a 30 on the MCAT and he couldn't get into an allopathic medical school let alone a place like Columbia and ended...

Also don't forget the human element. Get to know the important professors, the ones in your major. Don't be a kiss ass but ask them questions during their office hours if you don't understand...

That works. When all else fails go with everything but the kitchen sink strategy. Its worked for me before.

Agree. If you just want a job you can pull a C and find one. If you want to get into top grad/professional schools you need the high GPA as well as standardized test score.

The way I studied was like this:

1) Read the assigned reading, highlighting important info
2) Took class notes
3) Created an outline of the material which I updated every week with information...

Roids.

Looks like something from Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift