<p>@texaspg - yes I believe so. It was not a full list just a snapshot and they ask not to share details on specific college acceptances for the premeds. But their stats seem no different than other Ivys in general regarding med school acceptances to top10 med schools. Harvard and Yale may be higher…</p>
<p>It seems standard practice for top schools to be admitting about 10% of each incoming class with their own grads. At the same time, many of them tend to have a break after graduation before they get into medical school which means they have spent time after undergrad padding their credentials.</p>
<p>The other thing I don’t know about the data is whether it is for the same graduating class or a combination of the graduating class and from premeds who took an extra year. As you can tell the stats aren’t the most crisp.</p>
<p>@stanfordready
Well I think your answer is obvious. You are definitely not sure if you want to be a doctor and prestige is more important to you than being a doctor. Going to Columbia does not guarantee you admission to a top med school either but it does give you an education from a prestigious school and you can go far with that - too possibly in other majors that you may not get to explore in ucsd med scholars.</p>
<p>UPitt GAP or NU HPME? Have a tough decision to make with three weeks to go. U Pitt is slightly higher ranked but NU has a better undergraduate program it seems. U Pitt undergrad will cost less, but has 3.75 GPA requirement. Any advice or thoughts?</p>
<p>you will save 189000 if u finish your undergrad in u pitt. 63k x 3 = 189k
if u could get into hpme, then your credentials would have gotten u a free ride at pitt.
so if u have confidence in yourself that u can maintain the required gpa at upitt, then, u can go there. if money is not an issue, then nu hpme would be great.</p>
<p>NU HPME is a tough program to get into which means you must be good enough to manage 3.75 at Pitt.</p>
<p>So cost, trade off on one year of additional schooling is what you should consider.</p>
<p>@bsmd2013, if you hope to eventually do either transplantation surgery or oncology and would like to have exposure and connection to the next stop in your eventual career, Pittsburgh would be a much better place to go to.</p>
<p>so finally got that W&J/Temple interview. I think it’s a little late…</p>
<p>Is this actually when they interview or were you waitlisted for an interview? Have you decided where you are going already?</p>
<p>A friend is attending a 7yr BA/MD non binding program and is completing the BA portion this June (after 3 years). Question: If he applies to a higher ranked MD program this summer and gets accepted next year, can he still enroll in the MD program of his current BA/MD this fall and leave next year to the higher ranked med school? This wont be a transfer, he will start as a freshman at the higher ranked med school. Independent of BA/MD, are there contractual obligations at MD programs where if you start at one program you cannot opt out and attend another MD program after a year?</p>
<p>@bombingrange it’s the actual interview!!! I dont think i was waitlisted since they are inviting everyone on the same day. I’ve already put down a deposit for another bs/md program, so i declined the interview</p>
<p>stanfordready - I suspect people don’t do it in med schools, trying to repeat years at other schools. AAMCS may not be too kind to them.</p>
<p>The ranking of med school seriously does not matter a whole lot.</p>
<p>@stanfordready, your friend will be considered a transfer student (even if he/she goes to the freshman year) and most med schools do not take transfer students. You and the circle of friends you are with seem to be so overtly obsessed with ranking. As I said before, it does not matter whether you are in a school that ranks #1 of ranks #10, as long as both are top tiers. Excuse me if I am being too strong about it all. I think you and your circle of friends are being ill-advised. ?Asians (I am not being racist because I am Asian myself and know how many Asian families’ superficial thinking of ranking).</p>
<p>does anyone know how hard it is to keep up the requirements at VCU’s guaranteed medical program? I’m deciding between this program and UMKC’s program. Pleas help, thanks!</p>
<p>I have a friend whose daughter who is in the UMKC program and she was an excellent student in high school. She has been extremely challenged & right before exams she wanted to quit. There was also the issue of not being able to get the classes they needed because enough sessions were not offered, which caused her a lot of stress. One of their professors also just up and left so another one had to fill in & it was not good. But these are issues you shouldn’t take from word of mouth but call the school and ask.</p>
<p>Though VCU has a lot of requirements, including the MCAT, collapsing everything to 6 years at UMKC sounds pretty stressful.</p>
<p>Go to UMKC…they focus on what is required for boards and medical school. For example you do not do a full year of Organic chem which is not used in medical schools - u learn one semester of what is required for medical schools - orgo is not on the boards but you need to learn as a foundation and you do that in one semester. In other countries, orgo is not part of medical school curriculum and is never used again in the US after mcat! Similarly, there are couple of courses that are condensed to fit the curriculum but enough to give a strong foundation for medical school! So it is not any more harder than other medical schools. Remember, it is a state school and hence there may be some good and some not so good teachers! You are in medical school from day-1. however, if you cannot take the stress of working throughout the year with short breaks, then you may want to consider other programs!</p>
<p>@daisy111 I am surprised by your comment that UMKC does not require students to do Organic chemistry. Org is one of the foundations of medicine and pharma. This is like getting a degree in Engineering without Calculus. I would not accept UMKC if this was true.</p>
<p>@Matrix007, you do take Organic Chem 1, you just don’t do the extra semester of Organic Chem 2. It is important for the MCAT but at UMKC you don’t have to take the MCAT anyway. After that, organic chem is not used anymore, especially when practicing medicine. UMKC focuses on the fundamentals you need to be a good physician and that’s it.</p>