He was actually able to reverse-engineer the MCAT. Is It Accurate? Different schools have different ways to view your application. The LizzyM Score is a useful guide to see if applicants with similar academic credentials were accepted to medical school. | Affiliate Disclaimer | Privacy Policy | Website by MAP. It’s also an aggregate number so it’s not looking at individuals. When I was interviewed (top school), the interviewer started talking about SDN. She’s from the University of California Riverside. It’s ridiculous to have some arbitrary number of success set by some random group of people. But the score is such a small piece of data that is very limited in terms of applying to medical school. About the LizzyM Score. While some medical schools review each application holistically, meaning every application is reviewed, others reject applications solely based on minimum value GPA and MCAT scores without review of other factors. WARS is based on selectivity but you can’t extrapolate any information from that. But their mission is to serve the students who are going to serve the Inland Empire. Continue this thread. Rubrics are a very common way that medical schools review applications. If your score is far below, your application may be screened out due to numerical cutoffs. Please check your entries and try again. Thanks for subscribing! ', 'Applying to medical school isn't a binary act. We DO NOT recommend that you use the LizzyM Score as your sole criteria for selecting the medical schools for your application process. No grading system can capture all those things. Medical schools are not going to SDN and base their screening on the LizzyM score. Ultimately, any piece of mathematical equation or data based on your scores don’t tell you anything about how a school is reviewing applications. Well, that site clearly says, "The name "LIZZYM" does not identify a living individual," so obviously SDN's mods and admins use "LizzyM" as a fictional character that portrays a fictional adcom at a fictional medical school. And they won’t see a 3.2. Don’t apply based on the MCAT and GPA. ', 'As students apply to more and more schools, that's more money for the system, at the detriment of the students. You may have a very bad trend in your GPA. [Related episode: Your Amazing Premed Stories!]. What is the LizzyM Score and how is it calculated? He didn’t study for the MCAT, he studied the MCAT. 9. The score allows you to see if you are a competitive applicant at a given school. So if you look at this just based on the numbers, it may seem easier to get into University of Kentucky than it is to Washington University. Applying early decision turns it into a whole other game. LizzyM is an ad comm member who came up with a quick and dirty way to see if you are competitive for a school. Spoiler: You can’t. This is a mean admitted LizzyM of 68.4 +/- 6.4. The two-year program requires MCAT scores of 23 (old) or 496 (new) and is especially designed for students with little clinical shadowing and volunteer work; its deadline is June 1st. AAMC FACTS Table A-23: MCAT and GPA Grid for Applicants and Acceptees to U.S. Medical Schools, 2016-2017 and AAMC FACTS Table A-23: MCAT and GPA Grid for Applicants and Acceptees to U.S. Medical Schools, 2017-2018 through 2018-2019 (aggregated). WARS involves plugging in subjective information and then you base which schools you’re going to apply to on their score. Your story matters! Therefore, look at the school and their mission before even applying to figure out where you’re going to be a good fit and not just based on … But your score on the MCAT only proves that you can take the MCAT really well. It basically gives you a percentile according to your GPA and MCAT… For the most part, this holds true, as going back we don’t see much fluctuation in the median GPA and MCAT of matriculants. He figured out what they wanted him to do for each question. Therefore, look at the school and their mission before even applying to figure out where you’re going to be a good fit and not just based on MCAT and GPA. If you're LizzyM is 70, that's actually a really good score (I think?) Stay tuned for Med School Reviews soon where we’ll have students rating the schools and leaving comments about the schools. Based on that very objective rubric, they will get very standard scores. There a few “lower-tier” schools in the 70+ LizzyM score range, … You cannot rely on an algorithm or a mathematical equation that takes your GPA and MCAT to figure out where you should be applying to medical school. In theory, using med school calculators like LizzyM scores are a good starting point to assess your reach and safety schools. Who is LizzyM? It can’t capture your trends or your story. But while what is considered a good MCAT score differs from program to program, Kaplan Test Prep research shows that not doing well on the exam is the admissions factor most likely to keep you out of medical school. All the MCAT is doing is proving that you can do really well on the MCAT. You still have the chance of going to a great medical school, whether MD or DO. Students who are based in San Francisco look at their 4.0 GPA and 520 MCAT score and 77 LizzyM score. What doesn’t capture a story is a silly math equation called the LizzyM score. It’s just simple math – total number of applications, the number of seats, and that’s how selective they are. Other medical schools don’t have a rubric and they just have reviewers review the applications. They share things with me and I get to share that with you. Your story matters and you have to realize that. They categorize the medical schools and you can see how many applications each medical school gets and how many students they accept. Their story probably didn’t resonate with the admissions committee member. Again, you’re leaving your story out of it. Mean matriculant MCAT was 31.4, mean matriculant GPA was 3.7. The interviewer said he believed LizzyM was the Asian doctor who ran SDN. It's not telling you why they accepted those students. This thread provides details on the LizzyM Score: Essential SDN Wisdom for Pre-Meds.