Can anyone with a knowledge of the PRIME-LC program please help me?
I interviewed in September, and just received this email from UCI:
Dear XXXX:
I am writing you as a follow up to you interview at UC Irvine School of Medicine. The Admissions Committee will be voting next week on your application. In the meantime some of our faculty and students thought you would be a good fit for our PRIME-LC program as well as our MD program.
I know we provided some information about our PRIME-LC program during your interview day but if this is something you would like to learn more about please let us know. Our office can also reopen your secondary application to apply should you want to go forward with this.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Sincerely,
Ellena Peterson
I'm actually kind of bummed I got this email, because now this creates a dilemma for me. I'm not too interested in PRIME-LC, but I love UCI and would absolutely love to go there, even if PRIME-LC was the only way for me to be a med student there. But if I tell them that I'm not interested in PRIME-LC and just want to do the regular MD, will they think, "Oh this guy isn't as interested in Irvine as we thought. And he's not as interested in helping Latinos as we thought"? On the other hand, if I do say I'd like to be considered for PRIME-LC, won't that slow down the review process of my application? Because I'll have to fill out all those new essays, and so they probably won't review my file this coming week, right?
Argh...I was so close to just being reviewed for admission, why did they have to send me this email and complicate everything??
Any advice would be appreciated!