UVA vs VCU Honors with Scholarship

FCCDAD
Wed, 08 Apr 2015 20:19:59 +0000

“Honors premedical students may elect to follow the Preferred Applicant Track (Medicine), which offers an opportunity to apply to the Guaranteed Admission Program (Medicine) at the end of your sophomore year. Students who successfully meet all the requirements of the Guaranteed Admission Program may enter the School of Medicine without further competition.” https://www.pubapps.vcu.edu/honors/guaranteed/medicine/index.aspx

“Students accepted into the Preferred Applicant Track (Medicine) must successfully satisfy the requirements of the Guaranteed Admission Program (Medicine). Note that a corroborative, combined MCAT score of 26, obtained in a single sitting, with no score below seven, is also required.”

So it’s a little more than prereqs and gpa. Still, if you want to go to med school, it is probably your best choice to minimize or eliminate undergrad debt. I’d take the VCU offer in your position. VCU med school costs are already over $60k/year in state as it is. http://www.medschool.vcu.edu/studentaffairs/financial_aid/cost_attendance/ (That’s over a quarter of a million dollars for Virginia residents, over 4 years.)