@NervousDad01, wow, out-of-state (non-resident) tuition seems to be getting more and more ridiculous every year. I know some of the people who are on the Council on Selection. I honestly don’t think they PURPOSEFULLY select for very affluent out-of-state students. They genuinely want people who will succeed in the school and give people a chance. Unfortunately, those are just the people who end up accepting the offer, which is completely out of the Council’s hands. Not everyone who is accepted to this program, accepts the offer, when they compare costs to other schools. Realize most families looking at those tuition figures, esp. for the first 2 years, are going to think those tuition figures are crazy, esp. with no real scholarship assistance. As mentioned, the university is in huge financial straits now, and is highly dependent on student tuition, one of them being revenue from the medical school.
If you’re not from Missouri, financially, you will not come out ahead by going to UMKC’s 6 year program. Even as an in-state resident, you will pay more in tuition as a 6 year student, than someone who goes to UMKC as a regular undergraduate and then goes to medical school (most of UMKC’s undergraduate premeds do not wish to go to UMKC’s med school if they have a choice for a variety of reasons – they tend to go to KU or Mizzou in the allopathic world).
So for me I applied to all the ones in which I was saving a lot on time (or at least I thought I was). So I applied to Howard’s 6 year program and NEOUCOM’s (NEOMED) 6 year program. I didn’t get interviews for either, as Howard tends to more recruit underrepresented minorities since it is an HBCU (they also take very few BS/MD students period) and NEOUCOM will recruit like 3 out-of-state students out of 100 BS/MD students. I didn’t think I was qualified academically for Penn State’s 6 year program with Jefferson Medical College (it was 6 years at the time, and just recently became 7 years), and I think Miami’s HPME (it was 6 years at the time, it’s now 7 years), required SAT Subject Exams, which after studying and prepping for SATs and AP exams, I just couldn’t fit in another standardized exam(s) to prep for. I did apply to IIT’s 6 year BS/MD Combined Honors Program in Engineering and Medicine with either Chicago Medical School or Rush Medical College, I really can’t remember which. I got a huge scholarship for their undergraduate program, but never heard back on my application to the BS/MD part. I think that would have been a better program for me honestly, just because if I had changed my mind about medicine, I would have still had a great degree in engineering with no time lost, but hindsight is always 20/20.
I didn’t apply to any 7 year or 8 year programs, as I didn’t feel I gained anything in terms of time (1 year was no big deal to me, and NW/Brown’s programs also required SAT subject exams, and were of course, highly competitive). I probably would change that if I could back and do it all over again, just so that I had more options, and didn’t feel compelled to pick a combined program. However, back then as a 17 year old applying, I didn’t even know how to evaluate medical schools which I think was kind of the problem with comparing. There’s much more information out there now.