Ok so you were offered an interview for the 2 BS/DO programs. After the interview you would learn if you were accepted. Is that correct?
A few posts ago you reported getting 2 BS/DO acceptances. You were not accepted to the program, you were invited (accepted) to interview. That is where the confusion was. I thought you were accepted to the BS/DO program and then the acceptance was retracted.
It is unfortunate that they did not notice the problem with your classes before offering you an interview.
Just curious why too many AP and DE will hurt the BS/DO opportunities. They don’t have to accept the credits if they don’t want to take them. OP will just have to take them again in college. I saw some schools indicate that all prerequisites have to take in college. It sounds odd to reject candidates due to too many AP and DE.
This was also unclear to me–because both the undergraduate letters explicitly stated that I was accepted to the program, but LECOM still wanted me to interview. It would have been odd if they accepted me without interviewing, so yes, I was accepted into the interview stage.
I wasn’t too sure about why they rejected based off credits either. I have 75 credits including AP and DE. 60 of these credits are DE. They also did not mention what level of AP credits they would take (eg only 5s vs 3-5s). I emailed them back saying this but they said their application criteria is strict and only allows for 65 credits. So advice for the future would be clarifying aspects of the application before submitting or asking for maximum credits allowed.
In my very biased opinion, many DO schools are money making machines and if they can’t milk the most money out of you because you have too many credits, then you’ll get rejected. It’s not you, it’s them.
With 60+ DE credit, you are better off going to a “regular” UG problem and explore your interests and then apply to whatever you fancy.
If you want to be a physician, my advice is to apply to medical school and not attend a 6 year pharmacy program. Most applicants go the traditional route.
This is extremely impressive! You earned all those credits while in HS?
I think LECOM requires you to earn no more than 60 credits to be considered for their EAP, but I am not 100 percent sure.
Yep, LECOM never accepted you. You had 0 BS/DO acceptances (plus BS/DO at LECOM is just one school even with 100 different feeders…) They want the majority of classes to be taken at affiliated schools. With so many credits you already was junior to them. LECOM takes at most freshmen or sophomores for “transfer”. They did not treat you as HS student unfortunately. Some colleges do not treat students as HS students when a certain number of credits is exceeded.
From LECOM website:
Must have at least two years remaining as a full time student at the undergraduate institution and must have earned less than 65 credits total from all colleges and universities attended.
Sorry, that you turned out to be overqualified for LECOM.
I think in your situation choosing a pharmacy path is wrong…It is you who is going to work, not your parents.
If I were you, I would do the following:
Choose a college that will take most of my AP/DE credits and give me most scholarship money.
Make sure that premed advising will be solid there and will provide me with recommendations.
Catch 1 - undergraduate school may want you to retake some classes or refuse recs.
Catch 2 - some medical schools may want you to take most science classes in 4 year school and may not like AP credits.
Enjoy your 2-3 years in college. Focus on MCAT prep.
Take MCAT, work as EMT on weekends and summer or for a year after graduation (since you will graduate early with your credits) - many medical schools will love to take you.
Another catch - some medical schools prefer older and more mature students. They do not like 20 years old with many credits …
BTW, is Setton Hall taking all your credits? If yes, I think their BSMD (even just a guaranteed interview) may work perfectly for you… You can apply out anyway.
Good luck.
Seton Hall doesn’t accept my credits! But I expected that bc most bs/md programs don’t accept credits (or at least mine because mine are from core science classes)–so I don’t really mind that. I am still considering SHU because they gave me sizeable aid and it is close to home.
If you pursue pharmacy, you should do it because you’re really interested in it, not as a backup plan to MD.
Also, another option to consider is Physician Assistant. 2 yr of grad school instead of 4, so less total amount to pay back in terms of grad school student loans.
@mtiris you need to find out what you like, not what is prestigious or what your parents like, or what pays you more…
Your thinking is strange. It is like - if I work in health it is good enough. There is nothing common between pharmacy and doctor…Imagaine if you would say - I work in HS education. It does not matter am I a night guard, a school secretary, PE teacher or Math teacher. It does not matter, as long as I am helping kids to get good education… This is your reasoning to me…
Would you enjoy being PE teacher if you like Math? Maybe… I would not. Will you like to be a secretary with good benefits? I would not…
Are you sure that you are interested to stay in the middle of the night in an empty CVS and count medicine? There is nothing wrong with it, it is just very different than work with patients.
You have to enjoy what you plan to do for many years to come. At least remotely enjoy…