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Know people at the school, apparently building and location is absolutely beautiful and the curriculum intense. This place is going to get harder and harder to get into.
They have a systems based curriculum which is shared with a vast majority of most medical schools in the United States. Their curriculum was based off of TUCOM and Rocky Vista medical schools. This school has a lot of potential, but their overall goal is to serve the state of New Mexico and the underserved region including the indian tribes in the northern part of the state. BCOM plans to hopefully one day accept only students who are residents of NM and plan to stick around. They already have a fast-track system set-up in place for residents of NM to apply without going through the AACOMAS application portal, which also gives those students a selective advantage by the Admissions Committee. I think what BCOM has done here is quite amazing, but they will end up being another school everyone passes up in the future because of their biased towards in-state applicants - this is the situation for OSU-COM and OH-COM right now.
I do believe that of all of the new schools, BCOM tops the list. However, we still have yet to see how their students will manage on the boards in the next 2 years, that is when we will know for sure if this program is golden or a bust.