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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I suspect most here are not physicians nor have worked in med admissions. I am both, different from the poster a few posts up. I went to a T5 med school and did admissions for them, as well as run med admissions advising with a couple of other physicians. What we see, among those that do not gt in, is that their MCAT is often below 505 yet they apply anyway. IF they have above 515 and get in no where it is rare, and is often because they do not apply to schools where 515 is the top end of the score range, their GPA was below 3.5, or they have a lackluster transcript, often skipping recommended premed courses such as molecular bio, sometimes skipping required courses. 
No one with 3.9+/520+ gets rejected unless they have no schools below the T50 or have serious red flags on app ie no volunteering, missed courses, et al. 
Top undergrad programs, as in top flagships or T25 private types generally advise very well .  The applicants have all the prereqs and more. That is not the case from some schools. We advise those students to take 1-2 gaps and boost the lacking area such as a Postbacc if the coursework or grades are borderline.[/quote]

+1. I also want to add that it only gets harder in medical school, residency, and fellowship so if med school admissions is problematic I am deeply concerned about students afterwards.  The tests get a lot harder.[/quote]

My daughter is in the middle of the process and the above is why she doesn’t want to hire a tutor for studying for the mcat. (She’s doing some study method, studying every day for two hours, periodically taking practice tests, etc). She told me that if she needed a tutor to get into med school she’d be screwed when the much harder tests come down the line in med school. 
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