<p>While the free ride for NM Scholars at OU is a financially attractive option</p>
<p>Atomom is right…it’s not a free ride. It’s a free tuition plus. You still have to pay several thousand every year.</p>
<p>As for the med school acceptance rate…be wary of any such reports. Many schools boast such acceptance rates…Bama boasts an 85% acceptance rate. Those numbers have to do with those who actually apply. That number has NOTHING to do with freshman students declaring premed. </p>
<p>All schools have very large numbers of frosh premeds. If a school has 300 frosh premeds, then likely only about 75 will still be premed by senior year application time. The weeding out at every school is very high. My own Bama son will be starting med school in less than 2 weeks. All of his premed friends are heading to med school as well. However, along their 4 years in undergrad, they saw a lot of “premeds” fall away once their BCMP GPA fell apart.</p>