<p>There was another thread I was reading here that was discussing the new advanced medical school program, where you can finish your undergraduate degree and medical school in like 6 years or so, without having to take the MCAT (automatically accepted into Tulane’s medical school). Is this only going to be available to students with the DHS scholarship? How will the selection process go? I was just wondering because I know that the DHS is highly competitive, so if selection is based on whether or not you have the DHS, it could be unfair to a lot of students who get turned down.</p>
<p>I think jym (who posted the thread) corrected that statement about the DHS; that what she heard in fact was that students that have the DHS can apply the scholarship to 2 years of med school tuition. I see nothing announced about the program that it in any way depends on the DHS.</p>
<p>I think what you can reasonably speculate is that if there are, say, 30 people competing for 10 slots, and 10-15 of those are DHS winners, they will get most if not all of the slots. I am not sure I would call that unfair in the sense that there was already a selection process involved for the DHS, and those students won. Having said that, there are other factors involved in selecting a student for a medical school future than for winning a DHS and vice versa. So unless someone learns something otherwise for certain, I would assume there is no direct link between the DHS and this med school program, and that non-DHS winners that are highly qualified certainly have a chance as well.</p>