Direct Admit vs. Accelerated vs. Traditional

i_wanna_be_Brown
Wed, 05 Dec 2012 15:22:50 +0000

Raycmr,

I can’t tell if you’re ignorant or deliberately lying. The number of schools that offer biology or the number of biology students should not be used as a denominator for medical school competitiveness. There are lots of students at these schools with no desire or drive to go to medical school.

Should I give the anecdote about how I was told to avoid the combined programs and am at a top 20 MD/PhD? Should I give the anecdotes about all the department heads at my hospital from “brand name” schools? Mcat 2 was never denying the validity of your story, only the fact that it can be taken as dogma that school name means nothing.

That being said, I agree with kristin that a free ride at a combined program is very hard to turn down, but that’s mainly because free undergrad is hard to turn down. The combined MD is a perk on top of that.