Sunit4000

I'm a high school senior who has been accepted to both georgetown undergrad and the 6 year accelerated medical program at neoucom. Georgetown has an early acceptance program to med school that you basically get into if you maintain a 3.7 your fresh and soph years. I beleive I can get into the med school this route but I am really unsure of whether it will make a big difference to go to medical school at georgetown which is more expensive and 2 years longer than neoucom. I want to be able to get into some of the toughest specialities after med school, like dermatology or orthopedic sugery, so would it help a lot more to go to georgetown's medical school or does name not matter too much in residency applications? Any advice could help, thanks.

Bigredmed

Med school name does not matter that much. Board scores, class rank, letters of rec and grades in your clinical rotations matter far more. The interview is also extremely important.

However since you are looking at derm and ortho, it is possible that name holds a little bit more weight, but most likely as a tiebreaker of some sort.

xxfishxx

sunit4000, can you post your stats? I just want a comparison because I will be applying to combined programs at northwestern, rice, brown, and ucsd in the fall... btw what does neoucom stand for and where is it? and can you tell me more about the early acceptance program at georgetown?

ayrrie

NEOUCOM is the Northeast Ohio University College of Medicine, or something along those lines. It's a 6-7 year program, and there are locations in Kent, Akron, and Youngstown Ohio.

...I'm considering applying there, though I'm not all that excited about it.