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Is anyone familiar with their program? How does it compare with some of the other post-bacs? How difficult is admission? How is their admission rate compared to other programs?
Koko said:Loved their program and visited/researched 6 before deciding. Has changed in some ways since I've been there (e.g. some faculty left/replaced), but is still a gem if you want intimate classes/teaching, more access to faculty than anywhere else for teaching/research, etc, and LoR and evals that tend to be much more substantive than the average given how well faculty get to know you per tiny program size. Placement quite imprressive. Can't speak to admission rates/difficulty, but this is not for those with poor grades who want to retake and boost GPA.
Potential downsides for some: too small, they don't hold your hand through the admissions process, very academic (i.e. not a pre-med factory like many of the others).
Good luck.
grouse said:What do you mean not a pre-med factory? And, they don't hold your hand through admissions process? By the way stats are 3.6 gpa in good liberal arts school; lib arts major; won a couple of academic awards; haven't taken GRE's yet. No science courses in college to speak of.
I'm there now, and I can affirm Koko's point. Our PD is an excellent practitioner of her discipline, and knows her way around the admissions process, but she has explicitly stated that the purpose of the program is to give us an opportunity to prepare, it's not to do the preparing for us. We get pointed in the right directions, we get advice, but at the end of the day we call our own shots, and we sink or swim based on the work we've done within the program as well as the preparation we've done on ourselves.grouse said:What do you mean not a pre-med factory? And, they don't hold your hand through admissions process? By the way stats are 3.6 gpa in good liberal arts school; lib arts major; won a couple of academic awards; haven't taken GRE's yet. No science courses in college to speak of.