I sent in my secondary applications a month ago and now I am getting scared because I havent gotten any interview requests! How long does it take for an interview after the secondary app has been submitted?
I am so freakin nervous!!!

You made a big mistake by submitting so late. A lot of spots are already taken, and that lowers your chances of getting in this cycle. I wouldn't expect any interviews until february, because everyone is clogged up right now. It really depends on your stats though, feel free to email me them from my profile.

I thought Southampton didn’t used to but its website says otherwise.

i don’t think edinburgh does

I'm thinking about applying to medical school in the future (I'm in high school, planning to go to McGill or Queens). I'd like to go McGill for med school. Here are my questions:

1. Are interviews granted solely on the basis of marks or are other things involved?
2. Do they look at your raw score (average) in the program you took or your percentile? I know some med schools grant interviews to people out of any programs. I don't see how it would be fair for someone who graduated with an 90 (in say music) to be granted and interview over someone who graduated with an 85 in Life Sci.
3. How important is community service? My family doesn't have any means at all really, so I've been working since I was in grade 8 instead of doing community service. Where I go to school (could be different elsewhere) it's the richer kids who really compile the hours because they don't have to work (a lot of them get hundreds of hours "volunteering" to be counselors at summer camps in the Muskoka region or paying a few grand to go down to africa and say they volunteered there; I have to work my summers. I know one guy that goes to the hospital as a "helper" every other day where his mom works but brags about not having to do anything and spending his time watching TV.).
4. Does work count towards anything? I teach snowboarding and swimming and lifeguard and such, which I feel is more responsibility than what a lot of these people do with their community service (it annoys me that scholarship applications often have a slot for community service but nothing for work!). I've compiled over a thousand hours in the abovementioned.

Med schools do not care at all even the least little bit what you did in HS. So forget about it. They only care about what you did in college. And they mainly care about how you did in the prerequisite courses that are required for admission, then how you do on the MCAT exams you take at the end of your Jr year of college.

You have a long way to go before you are ready to apply to med school.

When you get to college you will interview with the faculty member at your college who is the pre-health-sciences advisor. That person is the advisor for premeds, predents and prepharms. He will go over with you the things you need to do to be ready to apply to med school.

In the meantime, if you want more info about med schools, a reliable source is the website of the AAMC (easy to google) they are the main official source for info about accredited med schools in North America.

Good luck. One day at a time!

This is a common question asked during the Interviews while aplying for medcine…
Would appreciate if u could help with the answer…

thnx a lot!

You will be a good example and help an cooperate with classmates./

I have already received several interviews for medical schools and am hoping to get into a program during the fall semester. Since my masters program is expensive, I was thinking about dropping out early to save money for med school, but didn’t know how this would look to med schools. Any advice?

I would recommend that you wait until after you’ve had the interviews, and preferably after you’ve been accepted somewhere. Unless your program is different, you’ve probably paid for your tuition, etc, for this semester. So unless you can get refunded I think its best to be able to tell you interviewers that you are in grad school, because they will probably ask about what you are doing, research, etc.

I'm applying to all of the Texas medical schools this summer, and I think my resume is pretty average at best. Is there anyone here who didn't have a stellar resume (ie. few extra curriculars, low to avg. GPA and MCAT score) but still got in to at least one school? I'm curious as to what the bare minium GPA and MCAT was for students to at least secure an interview somewhere. If you could post your "stats" and major EC's that would be great.

Premed, get thyself a copy of the MSAR.

In case you don't know what this is, the MSAR (Medical School Admissions Requirements) book is the official set of requirements and applicant statistics published by the AAMC. It will provide the actual average GPA, MCAT (even by section), and other stats of accepted applicants to all 126 MD schools in the country….including the Texas schools. It also not only gives the average score, but the range (e.g in the BS section, School X accepted students with a score of 7 to a 14, etc.). If you don't want to buy it (although IMHO it's well worth the price), your school's premed office *must* have a copy….it's the premed bible.

For a less scientific and unofficial idea, you can also check out http://www.mdapplicants.com/ . You can search by school (either undegrad or med school), stats, state, etc. Some people also fill out extracurriculars, and even use it as a blog to track the application process. It's still a skewed sample (it's just any premed bothered to fill it out), but more representative than whatever you get on Yahoo Answers. Good luck, and apply EARLY….*especially* for Texas.