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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]As a former organic chemistry professor, don't forget the huge number of premeds who was out before ever applying to med school.  So many don't make the grades early on.[/b]  [/quote]

What?
So what kind of grades in organic chemistry "early on" (I assume you mean freshman year) will knock you out of getting in to med school?
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[b]What he is trying to say - apparently after his nightly 4 bottles of wine - is that a lot of kids with premed hopes fail organic chemistry so they are out of the running for med school early on[/b].[/quote]Yup.  This means that the colleges reporting that 40% of their grads who apply to med school get accepted are disregading the 80% of premeds who switched to prelaw or business during sophomore or junior year.  Every premed has to take organic chemistry.  Very few get a good enough score to even consider applying to med school.[/quote]

Some drop out of the pre-med race early on but TONS of less qualified applicants still apply.  Go to student doctor forums.  There are thousands of people of people who apply to medical school with mediocre grades (a 3.4 or whatever) because they always dreamed of being a doctor or their parents have pushed them into medical school since they were young.  A huge percentage of the actual applicant pool is underqualified from a grades or MCAT perspective.  If you do get straight A's in the sciences (from Harvard or American or Bowie state or anywhere) and do well on the MCAT you will get in somewhere.  I have watched all my family members (husband, brother, many cousins) go through this after starting out at no name undergrads.  Everyone was accepted to a US medical school.   Every medical school applicant applies to a number of schools (typically 10+, often even 20) but qualified applicants get in.  You have the grades and scores and don't come off as an ass in your interview, you will get in.  [/quote]

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