***2024-2025 BS/MD/DO Students and Parents***

Pre-Med & Medical School Multiple Degree Programs
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I believe PLME had over 4000 applicants last year.

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Probably 5000 and 4900 are ORMs :smiling_face:

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There may be that many in New York itself.

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:grinning: :laughing: :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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COuld you please provide more details on how they secured an independent research topic and any other details.

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Are there any new combined programs that are opening up this or next year?

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How long is the penn state thomas jefferson program? Noticed someone who started in 2012 finished in 2018, in 6 years.

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It is 7 years now.
At one point, it was 6 years.
It changed after the new MCAT went into effect.

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Looking for the same info.

What topics to choose, how to articulate and move on?
how to involve in research work in high school to get into med school

pls give inputs.

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@Nagarajan_Ganesan if this is your real name, I would suggest you change your screen name to something else. Here is how:

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Decline in Black students enrolment at some schools post Supreme Court decision:

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/the-colleges-falling-behind-on-black-student-enrollment-f3728f99?mod=hp_lead_pos5

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Please join the conversation here to discuss enrollment trends post Supreme Court decision: https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/t/race-in-college-applications-faq-discussion-14/3627043/

Per CC policy, that is the only thread where race and college admission is permitted.

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Looks like LECOM EAP no longer requires SAT score.

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Hello, I am a new parent here as we are starting our journey with our 9th grader. Really appreciate this forum exists and Thanks to all of the experts here that are helping out folks like me. Our situation is a bit unusual so asking the question. We are all US Citizens living in India due to certain family circumstances. My son is interested to pursue the Medicine line and looking at BS/MD and Pre-Med. For BS/MD with the competition so high, we are wondering in what category is he going to be considered in ā€¦ like an International Student or an Out of State Student ? Is it better for us to go the traditional route (Pre-Med + MCAT ) ?

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He is just an out of state student, BS MD is competitive you can try applying if you have high stats and good extra circular activities, shadowing , volunteering, research etc ..

He can do a regular graduation + MCAT the other option, I assume he is planning to do the graduation in US

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I will give my opinion. 9th grade is way too early to decide you want to be a doctor.

Your son will be considered a U.S. citizen but because you donā€™t reside in the United States, he wonā€™t have instate residency status for admissions or tuition/costs.

BS/MD programs are highly competitive with acceptance rates very much like the most elite colleges. They are a reach for all those who apply.

Before applying to BS/MD programs, your son will need shadowing, volunteering, some kind of patient facing work (I donā€™t even know what is available in India), IOW, everything an applicant to medical school would need. These schools want to know why a student wants to be a doctor and how that decision was made.

In addition, he will need tippy top grades, and SAT or ACT scores at many places.

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I know many American kids in India going into Indian medical schools after high school. If they want to study in US, they are better off applying to undergrad followed by medicine. It is very hard to apply to BS/MD since there is no meaurable way to do medically relevant activities, research and volunteering in India, complete AP exams which become a primary measure to compare at most of these programs outside of SAT scores since they have scrapped subject SAT tests.

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Your son will need:

  1. Plan A- apply to BS/MD programs knowing they are a long shot.

  2. Plan B- apply to US undergrad schools with the intention of applying to medical school to start sometime after completing undergrad. With :crossed_fingers:t2: that he gets accepted someplace. U.S. medical schools do not usually accept the required courses for medical school admissions taken in other countries.

  3. Plan C- some other career option should this student not ever get accepted to medical schoolā€¦or changes his mind about being a doctor. Every premed Wannabee needs this plan C. Every single one.

@S_Nitt you also need to consider the overall costs of both undergrad and medical school. The medical school portion of this kidā€™s studies will likely cost over $100,000 a year. Itā€™s wise to keep undergrad costs as low as possible with little to no loans.

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Thanks everyone for the responses. I forgot to mention that he is going to a school which follows IGCSE until 10th and IB in 11th,12th. I agree that this is too early to narrow down on the career choice. So we are trying to keep the activities as broad as possible based on his interests.

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US News Medical School Ranking has changed to a Tiered grouping. No more ranks.
I guess the decision of many schools not to participate may have caused this change.