U of R Early Assurance Program?

shmudogg · 05-01-2006, 05:03 PM

I heard that U of R has a early assurance premed program within the state of New York. Is this true and if so what exactly is it?
Rochester 2010!

dltprm · 05-01-2006, 05:21 PM

UR does not have a specific early assurance program.

However medical schools around here do. UB has one, but I'm pretty sure you have to go to UB in order to be eligible.

SUNY Upstate Medical School has one for any sophomore. There should be one other one, but I can't think of it off the top of my head

Awakien · 05-01-2006, 07:58 PM

UR's only early assurance premed program is the highly competitive REMS program, but overall medical school acceptance rates at the UofR have been exceptionally high (in the high 80s% - i think roughly 88%?)

Plus - its really really nice to have the UR Medical Center right on campus...maybe you could get in touch with the right people =P

dltprm · 05-01-2006, 08:11 PM

Oh yea definatly.

They're really friendly as well. REMS is the early assurance, but that's pre-college and is uber-selective.

You can fulfill the "academic" and "research" 'parts' at the very least at the UR. *

*Med schools look at your extracurricular, academic, research, and couple other things. etc etc etc.

wrxstiav · 05-01-2006, 09:09 PM

REMS is not the only one. When I went and visited the campus, I talked to one of the pre-med advisors. She gave me a handout explaining everything, and there is an Early Assurance Program that you can apply for as a soph for SUNY Upstate / U of B.

dltprm · 05-01-2006, 10:31 PM

I'm getting conflcting information on the early assurance program at UB.

When you visit the ub page..
http://www.smbs.buffalo.edu/ome/admi...ialprogram.htm

You cleraly read at the first line "UB undergraduate sophomores can apply...."

But the weird thing is that a dozen other colleges (even Columbia University) lists that as a program which any sophomore can apply to.

Oh well, I know for sure that SUNY upstate has that program. Mount Sinai also has an EAP program if your looking into that sort of thing.

Again I'm not terribly sure about UB, but it's worth a look see.

suman · 05-04-2006, 05:36 PM

yeah, someone straighten this out...hey wrxtiav, u got the actual booklet? scan it or something, i wanna know for sure...