If you are not recruiting material, schools don’t care about sports participation. My friend’s son was captain for football and rugby and no schools cared about it.
Its another EC that makes an ORM different from the run of the mill every other ORM usually follows.
Yes, but only if the candidate is recruitable is what I heard from others.
That pathway goes like this: Is student recruitable worthy and can they meet academic performance requirements. Nothing else is considered.
Been following an MD applicant this year from Texas. He said he played D1 football somewhere and he is tall (dont know if Ivy), has reasonably good stats and got into every Texas school as well as few ivies, notable being Columbia. Not sure why med schools need football players but it seems to have gotten him in eveywhere.
If there are 10 seats available , there will be 200 recruitable worthy and can they meet academic performance requirements.
For example my kid got one of the highest merit award possible in UofSC with only top 25 OOS get , this is not based on Major, so the every OOS kid compete for the merit.
But for the BSMD , there are 10 seats and we did not get even an interview, just like IVY admisisons there are less seats than qualified students . There needs to be a hook that school is looking to get admitted is what I learnt
The way division 1 schools without athletic scholarships recruit aka Ivies and may be Stanford:
Every team coach is given certain slots since they have to field teams. The coaches give names back to admissions office in the priority of their needs and the admissions office gives each team some admissions. Rest on the list have to get in on their own without coaches help as part of the standard admissions process. If we have 5000 ORMs applying to Yale and they usually accept 300 and they all look similar (10 science awards, 4 debate awards, high GPA and SAT and so on) what differentiates them?
I havent kept up and my numbers may be way off. From what I know most ORMs applying have very high stats and probably equally mindblowing academic EC achievements. The adcoms are looking for who they expect to make a difference in their own community as well as when they graduate. It is hard to select one vs the other in this pool unless they show something different.
My bad, my conversation is limited only to BS MD who has EC related to health and are high achievers in academics. These kids are not athletic top achievers mostly and will not play for Universities
As per SDN, D1 athlete with good MCAT and GPA is someone who can multitask well and will do good in medical school
Hello! What are the chances of REMS alternate list getting cleared and around what time frame?
College acceptances have been pushed out to May 15th due to FAFSA fiasco. So whatever was common in the past add a couple of weeks.
It can clear all the way up to August.
Requesting students and parent to share their stats and reflections in the RESULTS thread.
See my post # 936 above for the link.
If you have made a decision about which college to attend, please withdraw from other programs at your earliest convenience.
There are many students on the waitlist.
Hello,
I wanted to ask if you can share your daughters’ essays? Thank you!
Hello All,
I would like to share the BS/MD experience that We went through recently for my son’s admissions. He got into Penn State/Jefferson PPM BS/MD program and LECOM BS/DO.
We attended recently Penn State PMM accepted student orientation.
Following are some highlights: hopefully helpful for someone looking for info.
- There are 7-8 students from Pennsylvania. Someone pointed out in this forum that Penn State prefer out of state students. Total admitted students this year 2024 was 29. Much lower than previous years. I highly suggest try even if you are in Pennsylvania.
- PA (7-8), Florida (2), NJ(3), GA (1), MI(1), CA(3), AZ(1), NC(1), Not sure rest.
- One student got selected without SAT and ACT including in her app.
- They started taking international students as well. If someone you know is looking for encourage them to apply. Highschool students with out GC/Citizenship
- Process is getting very competitive as they reduced the number of seats.
- If you get the interview 50% chances you get admitted
- Along with SAT/ACT, extracircular activites are really important such as shadowing, governor school, volunteering, EMT, Music/band, sports, clubs presidents (leadership).
Hope this helps for someone looking for more info.
Are you planning to commit to this program?
Great information .. PA has more acceptance nearly 25 to 30 percent which is good , out of state one or two , crap shoot anyways
7-8 out of 29 is approx 25% in-state.
So, 75% is out-of-state.
could someone shed some light on my ignorance
SKMC Med school ranked #58 in research # 71 in primary care. Why so much hype for this school. Am I missing something
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You’re missing the fact that rankings aren’t important. These students are looking for an early med school acceptance. They aren’t worried about rankings. A doctor from the lowest ranked med school is still a doctor. Top ranked med schools don’t participate in BS/MD programs. A few did in the past, but ended their programs.