I had a 3.4 GPA and 24 on the ACT. I went to UVU and did good enough

Feb 16, 2019
8:03:35am

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To transfer to BYU after my associates degree where I took nothing but pre med courses and got a 3.9 science gpa at BYU and got into med school.

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Annual BYU experience is overrated post.

diluigifan

2/16/19 7:54am

I’m not sure that graduate schools love BYU, tbh.

2018grad

2/16/19 7:58am

Sounds like a 4.0 GPA could have done wonders for you.

CrimWalCoug

2/16/19 8:02am

Go to the cheapest school. No one cares where you go to med school.

GRCoug

2/16/19 8:06am

I did. I’m here now. And I hope you’re right when it comes to residencies

2018grad

2/16/19 8:07am

Depends what residency you’re shooting for and where

cougfanz

2/16/19 8:09am

In my experience as a senior resident interviewing candidates our program

GRCoug

2/16/19 8:11am

The only place anyone ever cares where I trained is my fellowship.

GRCoug

2/16/19 8:13am

Umm. False. Residency programs care if you are D.O. or trained

Lalau

2/16/19 9:57am

You’re right. I guess I was talking about MD programs

GRCoug

2/16/19 10:03am

I’m going to bet most of who you are referring to are white males.

Tygger

2/16/19 8:09am

Sad but true.

Lalau

2/16/19 9:59am

Could def be right. But maybe the issue is actually a BYU white male issue?

2018grad

2/16/19 10:21am

I'm pretty sure it helped me when I was applying for grad school.

fortuitousfred

2/16/19 10:26am

AP classes help your weighted gpa.

puntersarepeople

2/16/19 7:59am

And BYU uses unweighted GPA.

soupie

2/16/19 8:16am

That’s right, I forgot about that

puntersarepeople

2/16/19 9:44am

I had a 3.4 GPA and 24 on the ACT. I went to UVU and did good enough

GRCoug

2/16/19 8:03am

Similar story. You can get great grades at BYU if you work your butt off

byu1

2/16/19 9:12am

This was me as well. I put in an absurd level of studying

kotacoug

2/16/19 9:47am

Same with me. I had to work very hard but I was able to compete well with the

GRCoug

2/16/19 10:06am

Kind of agree.. but i would substitute a school like the U rather than uvu

cougfanz

2/16/19 8:06am

My two friends who went to med school from UVU got into the two best med schools

BYUheaven

2/16/19 8:16am

Were they local. Top Schools will take a few kids who went to local schools and

jvquarterback

2/16/19 8:53am

Nope, got into Penn state and Ohio state

BYUheaven

2/16/19 8:58am

So not top schools.

jvquarterback

2/16/19 9:04am

Nope, but like I said, better than the schools my friends from byu got into.

BYUheaven

2/16/19 9:08am

Extremely anecdotal

byu1

2/16/19 9:14am

Agree, i just don't agree at all with the post I replied to:

BYUheaven

2/16/19 9:27am

Yea that post was incredibly lame...

CoachSpeak

2/16/19 9:43am

A bunch of bunk....

CoachSpeak

2/16/19 9:21am

I tell this to myself when I take an insanely hard chem/physics test

coug719

2/16/19 8:08am

That sounds like Chem 105 got easier. I’ve seen the average in the 60s before.

ColdFusion1989

2/16/19 9:17am

I agree completely. I’m kind of hoping my son goes tomASU

kotacoug

2/16/19 8:14am

BYU has a better reputation that you are giving them credit for. There's

HeismanTy

2/16/19 8:36am

Bingo. And will be much better prepared at the graduate program

byu1

2/16/19 9:16am

National tests have little correlation with class difficulty.

diluigifan

2/16/19 9:34am

I’ve posted this before but the Utah school with the highest...

CoachSpeak

2/16/19 9:48am

Really? Wow, that's interesting to know.

Lalau

2/16/19 10:04am

It was for me as well....

CoachSpeak

2/16/19 10:44am

Led schools can only take so many from BYU. if you don’t make the top students

kotacoug

2/16/19 11:10am

That wouldn’t surprise me. So many great, smart kids

diluigifan

2/16/19 10:12am

Sounds like we have had very different experiences. The only institution

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