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[quote=Anonymous]OP, a competitive medical school application requires

1) a high GPA (especially science GPA)
2) a high mcat score 
3) at least 5  letters of recommendation (3 academic, 1 clinical/research supervisor, 1 doctor etc)
4)hundreds of hours of clinical experience such as medical assistant or EMT
5) hundreds of hours of research experience 
6) shadowing 75+hours 
7) volunteering experience 
8) leadership roles
9) a well-written primary application and essays for secondary applications. A typical applicant applies to over 20 schools so that’s a lot of essays. 
The primary application opened yesterday so your child would have needed to have all of the above lined up and would need to be prepared to spend the next couple of months dealing with secondary applications.

You have not mentioned a mcat score or even a gpa.  If your child doesn’t have top notch stats they would probably need to strengthen the rest of their application by exceeding the clinical, shadowing, research hours mentioned above.

So, is it that your child doesn’t have a competitive profile yet and needs to spend this year working on extracurriculars and perhaps retaking the mcat before applying next June?

Or are they taking a breather.

Do you know?

Either way, if they don’t apply this month they are definitely taking two years off and you have to come to terms with that. [/quote]

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