***Thread For BS/MD/DO 2023-2024 Applicants/Parents ***

[srk2017]

@Rorance

My son was admitted to a 3+4 BS/MD earlier this week. He applied to only one (kind of on a whim) and was admitted, which surprised us all. He is also admitted to a number of other top 25 schools, early action, and is waiting on a lot more regular decisions from top 25 schools. We were pleasantly surprised the BSMD program gives until May to respond (we thought it would be like a week or two to respond) and he has time to make a meaningful decision after all college results are in. Do you think the (relatively) assured medical school admission is worth going to a lesser-regarded undergraduate school? I can tell he is somewhat hesitant in going to the BSMD because he has dreamed of attending a top-flight undergraduate school and all of the bells/whistles/glory associated with that (and he has the opportunity to do that, given his acceptances early action and anything else he might get in regular decision)? I have spoken with several practicing physicians and we hear two different things…(1) go to the BSMD…cutting out all the pain of trying to get into medical school while in college is a HUGE plus; or (2) given your child’s stats, academics, history and everything else he has done so far, he is likely a candidate to get into medical school in the traditional route…go enjoy college at the regular pace and have more options for medical school later (instead of being tied into the one he has already been admitted to through this 3+4 BSMD program). Any thoughts would be welcomed. Thank you

Read these threads I have created 6 years back.

BSMD/BSDO Applicants Undergrad and Medical School experiences

This is a place holder for discussing college (undergraduate and medical) experience of BSMD applicants. Please indicate BSMD program currently participating or participated traditional UG attending or attended Reasons for not choosing BSMD if received admission Medical college admissions experiences for traditional applicants Residency matching

BSMD vs Traditional Path

the reason there are only 5% of seats is most schools don’t think BSMD programs don’t have a real purpose and lot of them discontinued. Some are continuing for various reasons. There are 25+ BSMD programs and you quoted 4 schools (probably forgot WashU). Most of them are not T20 (including Brown). I consider Nortwestern, UPitt, Baylor and WashU as the top medical schools among the BSMD programs and combined I believe they take less than 50 each year. Anyone who thinks going to any particular UG school automatically gets them into equally or more prestigious school are hallucinating and there is no point in preaching to them. Anyway, as long you don’t use “prestige obsessed” I don’t attribute motives