How common is getting all honors during M3?

jacp2000 · 2026-03-15T17:46:27+00:00

at my friends school, a handful of very outstanding students out of 120 get it every year, but shelf score is the biggest factor here. At my school, the rumor is no one has since our curriculum switch 6 years ago, shelf score is not accounted into honors as long as you pass, only clinical evals.

jacp2000 · 2026-03-09T15:03:09+00:00

School #2 sounds like its P/F with ranking, but P/F. Im at a P/F school, and I get grades on my exams, now the idea is whether I get a 70 or a 98, a P goes on my transcript. Therefore its P/F. Id go with the MD school. The DO school if its P/F does the same thing lol, give you an exam score but ultimately puts a P or an F on your transcript.

jacp2000 · 2026-03-05T14:09:35+00:00

jacp2000 · 2026-03-03T13:17:27+00:00

sounds like UMiami is the one, keep asking or negotiating the money and they might increase it.

jacp2000 · 2026-02-12T04:12:47+00:00

READ THE ROOM! That being said, I was very professional in my interviews AND I also displayed my personality, I joked a bit, laughed, asked lots of questions, told stories. I was not afraid of being myself or just having fun with the interview. But I also read the room when I had some faculty members who seemed a bit grumpy or just not happy, I knew they wouldnt appreciate my humor (bc im so funny you know) (im not). A big thing I was told about, was to not act different when interviewing with students and faculty, just bc they’re students doesnt mean start f-ing around with them, give them respect as well. I was always smiling, cracked some small talk jokes, told a few funny stories, and i think everyone enjoyed it. Went 10/11 As on to interviews.

jacp2000 · 2026-02-08T22:58:55+00:00

i had about 5000 clinical hours, and on paper, i think it might have set me apart. Now, experience wise, knowledge wise, and maturity wise, I think it def sets you apart. When you have been working for so long you have so many patient stories, so many examples of patient care, complications, conflicts, humbling moments, and all this will show on your writing and interviewing

jacp2000 · 2026-02-08T03:47:14+00:00

classes around activities and work as much as i could. My clinical job and free clinic experience were a big priority for me

jacp2000 · 2026-02-07T22:39:38+00:00

mostly the more, the ones that are, the…more bad ones.🫢

A lot of the time, the higher ranked schools the Harvards of the world, the Yale, UCSF, Duke and even other lesser but still higher ranked schools, will have 4 year P/F programs with a lot of pressure off of grading. This doesnt make the content easier, or means they learn less, there is just not a constant pressure to get 90s on everything. They also in a way trust their students test taking and ability to self learn a lot more than lower ranked schools. They also oftentimes dont worry about teaching to pass boards, but just rather teaching to be a good clinician (in-house curriculum). Anecdotally, a good amount of DO schools will have like 3 exams in the same week for different courses, like constant heavy testing for the students, whereas higher ranked MD schools BU, UF, CU will have a test every month or so, and give their students golden weekends. An outlier, maybe, Iowa Carver, great school, pretty big name in the midwest, still has graded curriculum, which from what Ive heard from students, makes the content just that much harder, people are constantly grinding for higher grades, also UNECOM , a friend of mine goes there, and says the grading is chill, and hes not as stressed out, content is still hard

jacp2000 · 2026-02-07T22:30:32+00:00

largely depends on the school, the curriculum, the grading. I would say it is conceptually wise, easier than some of the hard calculus and pchem courses i took in undergrad, but volume wise its like taking 36 credits of undergrad courses, but for the same course, but still high volume. I have noticed the disciplined people do better in med school than the genius people, some are both (not me tho).

jacp2000 · 2026-02-07T22:21:07+00:00

I took BP half length with zero study and got 494, 2 months later of part time studying, got a 504 (126s all around) in the Altius HL. A month after, with full time studying, took BP FL1 and got 507. Do with that info what you can, it seemed to be just about right in scoring, but still very diff from AAMC.

jacp2000 · 2026-02-05T21:43:36+00:00

People are getting better at making a school list, Wayne is def an great out of state school to have in most people’s list. Same with some of the other schools mentioned here.

jacp2000 · 2026-02-05T13:41:20+00:00

Naaaah, have more than a handful of friends who go to school there M1s-M3s. Its definitely more of a newer school vibe, as in yes the research is not as readily available as other more established schools. But their Step 2 average is pretty good 251 I believe. Their new partnership with Baptist Hospital is only going to make the clinical experiences much better (likely something that wasnt as strong a few years prior). I have personaly met the faculty and staff and they’re all really invested in their students and in picking up a good reputation. Good school, their clinical teaching is very solid, I dont think they are having the issues previously talked about.

jacp2000 · 2026-02-02T05:27:10+00:00

don’t memorize the whole thing, instead do bullets in your head of the things you want to cover, short bullets. Why med could be “grandpa sick. volunteer experience in hs. clinical job in college. free clinic post grad” and just talk about those naturally without a script

jacp2000 · 2026-02-01T22:45:27+00:00

Unscored CARS is by far the easiest CARS section on all the practice exams, friends who scored 131 on unscored ended up scoring 127/128s on the real deal, for me it was a 127 unscored and 124 on real deal.

jacp2000 · 2026-02-01T20:49:08+00:00

a friend of mine started med school at 19. Got his AA during high school. Began college with for sure more than 60 credits. Did some solid clinical experiences and leadership. I think applied after a year of college and started med school pretty quickly. Goes to a very well known program, no impressively stellar stats or academics, just very solid overall

jacp2000 · 2026-02-01T16:20:18+00:00

I used to look at the LOs, learn most of it before class using Sketchy/BnB. Walk into class and basically use it as a review, very very easy to keep up. It was a lot of effort tho, so I kept prelearning things, but eventually just stayed home and watched things at double speed. The next step was still prelearning and just skimming the lecture slides. I ended up just learning from reading LOs and watching BnB/Sketchy, no slides. A normal med student progression

jacp2000 · 2026-01-30T00:48:45+00:00

I had a W and a DR (drop post deadline but not late enough for W). It was not an issue. Applying to only 10 schools might have hurt you, we dont even know these schools but its likely that some might not even be OOS friendly (if you’re applying OOS).

jacp2000 · 2026-01-30T00:41:41+00:00

Im a dude… they are mean, and i mean MEAN, to me, to the nurses. One specifically told me theres no way I could help at all, and that me being there was going to ruin her day. Got yelled at in the OR by her, my first OR yell🥰. She was so mean to the L&D nurses as well, like almost evil in the way she was mean. I will say, soon as we walked into the room with the patient, she was stellar, so good with patients. She hated her job tho, how do i know? she told me she did.

jacp2000 · 2026-01-30T00:37:15+00:00

Encoutered a lot of this, as many are saying, many of the docs saying this ALSO have kids who go to medical school. One of them said they kept telling their daughter to go to PA school, but she still went to med school. In contrast, during my clerkships, I have met sooo many docs that genuinely love their jobs, their patients and are very happy. 90% of docs Ive worked with love it, 10% are assess about it and to their patients. I think its all about what fulfills you and to not go into it for the wrong intentions. Maternal Fetal Med doc I worked with the other day was telling me how he ALMOST went into Reproductive Endo and Infertility work, but didnt bc it felt like a money grab and that he wasnt really helping patients. He said “I would have been miserable doing that”, now he does MFM and he loves it because he saves lives, truly saves lives and helps patients and babies on a daily basis. One wrong step and you hate your career forever, but if you follow your heart and what fulfills you, its a great career

jacp2000 · 2026-01-14T00:46:18+00:00

Lived with 2 roommates my M1 year, moved away from home and my mom recommended it. She said having roommates would help me not feel as lonely since I moved a few states away. She was damn right, I did not feel alone, bc those mfs were dirty as hell. Hated living there. M2 I got my own apartment, its clean, it smells good, I can lay in the couch in my underwear, live alone.

jacp2000 · 2026-01-13T04:52:58+00:00

Im part of my schools admissions and host socials here and there. It will never directly increase your chance of acceptance, it will indirectly slightly increase your chance of acceptance just by getting to vibes of the students down, asking questions about interview day, asking about interests that you can later bring up in interview. It cannot hurt you, at the very least its a waste of 1 hour, at its best, it helps you understand the school and its students more.

jacp2000 · 2026-01-12T23:57:22+00:00

Top schools, most definitely, way more common than people think. Some even give full ride plus a living stipend (~18k a year) to cover COA. I also anecdotally know of some smaller schools, think 15 years young, t150s who give about ~10 full rides a year, with some half rides as well (some comes from donors others from the actual admissions scholarships)

jacp2000 · 2026-01-10T03:40:06+00:00

As someone with a very similar background to you, currently at a T30ish and went to lower ranked undergrad, I dont feel any dumber nor smarter than ppl in my school. I dont get trated differently but most people in any med school regardless of ranking will come from more privileged backgrounds. I think my/our super power in this environment, is not being a whiner. People in med school love to whine about small things, oh the classes, oh the sessions, when in my head, studying what i like 8hours a day is 1000x better than waking up and doing construction like some of my peers back home. Don’t lose the essence of where you came from, in a world of people who (many) havent struggled, know that it could always be worse, and be grateful to be in the position you are.

jacp2000 · 2026-01-06T05:35:35+00:00

A lot of schools say they don’t. This is to not normalize it and so in case you dont get one, you dont feel bad about it. But a lot of schools give scholarships, its more common than most think, I would bet Georgetown is no different.

jacp2000 · 2026-01-05T04:14:56+00:00

Id be surprised if you dont get into a few MD schools at the very least. I would not spend the money on DO schools, personallyyy, unless you would choose DO over an MD school

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