Why not Rice/Baylor?

Pre-Med & Medical School Multiple Degree Programs
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<p>I applied to the Rice/Baylor program (coming from the northeast, too!)…interim decision notifications are only a couple days away!</p>

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<p>Hey all,</p>

<p>Someone on another thread just posted a cool link giving brief intro on various programs:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.medicalhelpnet.com/content/view/28/46/[/url]”>http://www.medicalhelpnet.com/content/view/28/46/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Someone was asking if R/B is harder to get in than HPME/PLME. Looks like it’s about the same as PLME and probably slightly easier than HPME. HPME’s stats are found here:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=2378&page=1&pp=20[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=2378&page=1&pp=20&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Baylor College is ranked pretty high, isn’t it? </p>

<p>Also, applicants have to be accepted to Rice before they can apply to the med program, so it kind of “weeds” out lesser applicants beforehand I guess.</p>

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<p>Baylor is ranked like 13th or something - above Northwestern and Brown, i think.</p>

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<p>jenskate1 – it’s interesting why you should ask this question… rice/baylor… enough people apply you know!</p>

<p>I think, as high schoolers, people wouldn’t look at med school rankings. Rather, they would look at the undergraduate institution (I think brown and northwestern are both above rice).</p>

<p>Also, some people would choose HPME or RPI or some other, shorter, accelerated programs over 8year programs like that of rice/baylor. </p>

<p>This is what I think… but who knows.</p>

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<p>Fair question - I asked because it seemed like a lot of people on this board were applying to PLME and HPME and not Rice/Baylor (which is reflected in the number of applications each program recieves). I didn’t mean to imply that there is any real shortage of Rice/Baylor applicants, since there isn’t, I was just curious as to why more people weren’t applying to the program.</p>

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<p>Baylor has grades, which definetly was a concern of mine. I only looked for a true P/F grading system.</p>

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<p>How does one know whether a school has PF grading system??</p>

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<p>I highly highly dislike Texas due to the conservative attitude there. However, Houston isn’t too bad, as compared to the smaller towns. I probably will apply there next year, as I am a junior this year. Jenskate, I’ve read some of the posts you’ve made on CC. Hopefully, next year when I need some help, I’ll be able to ask you some questions about the R/B program (i.e. interviews if I get one).</p>

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<p>Please do!</p>

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<p>plushenko - Usually you can find it a school is PF or grades by just going onto the medical school website. I know UConn is PF…anybody know about Brown and Feinberg (Northwestern)?</p>

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<p><a href=“http://services.aamc.org/currdir/section1/grading1.cfm[/url]”>http://services.aamc.org/currdir/section1/grading1.cfm&lt;/a&gt;
Northwestern is P/F grading, however one must actually inquire as many schools who claim to be P/F secretly rank its students diminishing the cooperative atmosphere P/F is supposed to promote. I know that Yale and Case Western are true P/F schools through inquiry.</p>

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<p>Wait,… applying for the rice-baylor program, all we could have done at this point was check the box on the app saying I was interested in the program, right?.. should i have gotten another application or something after that to apply for rice-baylor? uh oh</p>

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<p>you get the supplemental app in you acceptance packet - so if you are ID, just give it a few more days. Good luck!</p>

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<p>jenskate1-- where else are you applying, just out of curiosity?</p>

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<p>Sorry if I haven’t been clear - I’m done applying, and now I’m a freshman at Rice, in Rice/Baylor.</p>

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<p>Ah… click! Wow… I envy you!!</p>

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<p>oope bharath2007-- thanks for the invaluable link!</p>

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<p>hey jen, </p>

<p>what is the GPA requirement to matriculate from Rice into Baylor?</p>

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<p>hey - </p>

<p>it’s 3.0 in pre-med requirements, and 3.2 overall. They give you a whole bunch of warnings though before you get kicked out. That is a cumulative GPA requirement, NOT by semester.</p>

<p>After 1 semester below the requirement, you are put on “watch”
If you fall below again, you get a warning.
If you fall below a third time, you get another warning.
If it happens a fourth time, you are “subject to removal.” That doesn’t mean you will be kicked out, it just means you can be.</p>

<p>If you get a C- or below in any of the pre-med classes you must retake them, although they will still count in your GPA.</p>

<p>No MCAT required.</p>