<p>My daughter went to both schools to interview. UMKC admits you as a medical student, SLU does not. </p>
<p>If you are able to stick with UMKC, you will be a doc in six years. It is an advantage for being a doc sooner if that is what you want to do. In that respect it is better. Seriously, it seems like a six year boot camp for high schoolers. Many (20+%) of these high school med doc students will drop out. I also found the program is just too much $$ for out of state folks like us. </p>
<p>SLU does not give you a spot from medical school in the beginning. Therefore you are like in a “pre-med” program with a preferred status. Visiting colleges, a lot of students say they are in premed but they change their minds. This mentality is so prominent in Vanderbilt or Washu or Emory that almost everybody and their brothers said they want to do premed. After taking chemistry and organic chemistry, many just don’t have the ability to do medicine. This happens for SLU students too. From what I heard, if you follow the path in SLU, your chance of getting in their own med school is considerably high. That is what the medical scholar program said. It is not a guaranteed program. Those conditions/restrictions such as GPA 3.5 and interviews still appear “friendly” compared with regular premed path.</p>