SLU has a low med school acceptance rate and it is not easy to earn a high GPA there. I would seriously consider your other options.
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SLU: If you are not selected for the medical school, then you can apply out.
Not applying out only applies if you get selected.
About 100-120 are accepted into SLUâs medical scholars program, which dwindles down to about half after the first year, and around 20 matriculate into the medical school.
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Thank you for the responses. For the current students, since interview is in sophomore year, they could then consider alternatives in junior year. However for the new students accepted, the acceptance letter talks about being permitted to apply for SLU med school and considered for admission during junior year of undergrad. Wondering how that will play into applying out if not selected and is any risk in terms of timing. Thank you
Based on @NoviceDadâs numbers, I would go with the assumption that SLU is a program that allows a lot into the program but you have to work as hard as trying to get into a medical school from any undergrad to make a difference. 20 out of 120 is a not a real guarantee under any evaluation criteria.
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Actually my daughter with 35 ACT, 4.54 GPA, 15 APâs, CNa,
PCT certified with several publications, shadowing hrs,
And leadership roles was not selected for SLU Med scholars
Program, So we never know what exactly is their acceptance logic.
Did you apply in this cycle?
Also, the acceptance rate for med school is around 42%. SLU scholars acceptance rate is much lower based on @NoviceDad s numbers since all of them started out wanting to go to medschool.
Yes
SLU gets about 5000-6000 applications and they matriculate about 180 students.
That is 3 to 4% matriculation rate.
Matriculation rate is higher for their Medical Scholars program.
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There are a lot of people applying to combined programs. Brown PLME used to accept something like 50+ (dont know if they still do that many?) and many elite applicants who get into undergrad still dont make it to PLME.
Your D seems like an excellent applicant and kids like her will make it into excellent medical schools if they are still interested in medicine 3 years from now. Just need to focus on GPA and indvidual class grades.
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They have criteria for instate and OOS students. The acceptance rates for BSMD is like 2%. She will do fine as regular applicant .
Thatâs a very low conversion rate for low tier school!
Same 5000-6000 apply to all BSMD probably now a days.
With all that I would say she would be fine with traditional path and count it as blessing that she wasnât selected.
Does she have lot of service hours? If not, thatâs one thing she should focus on in undergrad. More and more schools valuing service more than research.
You apply during the summer before senior year and I assume SLU will decide during spring semester of junior year.
Now they changed from end of sophomore to end of junior year -If not able to get seat in SLU medical school Is it late to apply in regular cycle without gap year?
Comes down to when they announce the decisions. Application cycle I believe opens in July.
Actually for the regular admission process, applications can be submitted starting June 1. (June 1 if itâs business day, first following business day if itâs a weekend or holiday.)
AMCAS opens the application in May so students can fill it out ahead of time and be ready to submit on the first day applications are accepted for processing.
Depending on the how backlogged the system gets, verification of an application can take as long as 3 weeks. So an application submitted in mid-late July wouldnât necessarily get forwarded to schools until sometime in Augustâwhich for MD applications is late since interviews invitations start going out in mid-to-late August.
5000-6000 applications is the number for the traditional route.
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So without the gap year means before senior starts students will start the application.For example of class of 2028 they will apply 2027 May 1 st cycle?Thanks