<p>Personally, the program stinks of a way to admit a select group of students who are well connected but aren’t academically up to getting into medical school. Programs like this are popping up all over the country now, as medical school gets more competitive. As a college student, I was shocked when I learned my college accepts high school students directly into medical school. They don’t have to take the MCATs (although they need to take Organic Chemistry) and only need to keep a 3.5 GPA to get, even though you need a 3.75 to get into that medical school! As a college student considering applying to medical school, I feel slighted that candidates are getting in on nebulous criteria unrelated to medicine (high school performance, English composition, artistic ability). The only way a school would allow such a program is to provide a way for scions/legacies to get in easy.</p>