There are a variety of ways to get accpeted into medical school without taking the MCAT.
If you are interested in helping sick people and making a difference in others lives, then medical school is probably a career path you have been looking at. However, gaining entrance into medical school can be a long and difficult journey. Most candidates think that they must take the MCAT to get accepted into medical school but that is not always the case.
Provisional Admission
One of the ways to get into medical school with out taking the MCAT is to go through a provisional medical school admission process. There are currently a few schools in the United States that will allow a student to gain acceptance into college as well as medical school straight out of high school. However, there are certain requirements that a student must obtain in order to guarantee her acceptance. For example at Brown Medical school, she must has a verbal Scholastic Assessment Test score of 710, a math SAT score of 730 and graduated in the top two percent of her high school class. At the George Washington School of Medicine, she must maintain an undergraduate grade point average of a 3.3 and must complete 100 hours of community service each year.
Expanded Minority Admissions Exercise
If you are a student of color, another way to bypass the MCAT when applying to medical school is through the Expanded Minority Admissions Exercise. The program was established in 1970 by the Association of American Medical Colleges in order to help students who had a likelihood of success in medical school gain acceptance into medical school based on other strengths besides cognitive ones. As of May 2010, 28 medical schools are involved and with the help of AAMC, medical school admissions officers are taught and emphasized to use other criteria besides the MCAT to review and accept minority applicants.
Texas Medical Schools
If you reside in the state of Texas and your city or town has a shortage of medical services you can gain acceptance into a Texas medical school without taking the MCAT. This is available through the Partnership for Primary Care Program and as of May 2010 is available at nine Texas medical schools. In order to qualify as a high school student you must be in the top 10 percent of your class, have a minimum 1200 SAT and have an GPA of 3.50. As a college student you must be a college freshman at one of the partnership universities, had a 3.50 GPA through the end of high school and maintain a 3.25 GPA throughout college.
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