Two questions - Biology Program and Med School Admissions

mmcnell
Tue, 05 Jul 2011 01:14:42 +0000

Webass- Premed is a program that runs with a major. If you want a letter from the UofA (which you need) for med school, you have to play by the premed program’s rules so to speak. That said, it is open to anyone of any major of any GPA, so it’s not as if it is restricted to only competitive applicants. (i.e. you will have some premeds that follow the recommendations of the program to a T and have stellar resumes and know the process well and others that only really show up to mandatory advising sessions and then their junior year with their PMAC application and letters of recommendation and are just hoping the PMAC will decide to write them a letter of recommendation anyway.) It does give them the opportunity to keep stats on how many students apply and are admitted to medical school each year however, which is where the stats previously mentioned in this thread came from.

utengin- I can’t break the stats down further for anyone at this point because I don’t have the most recent information or the more detailed information about where students were admitted recently. From a strictly in-state perspective I can tell you that although UA Fayetteville represents the single largest contributing university to the UAMS entering class each year, it is nowhere near a majority of the class. In our class 38 students are from the University of Arkansas out of 174 total, and far more than 38 students are admitted to medical schools each year from the UofA, so they do go other places too :). I don’t know if that answers your question very well, but it’s the best I can do at this point with the information I have. If you wanted better stats, I’d recommend talking to Dr. Alison with the premedical program.
-Matt