Yeah, I just didn’t include it. My scores wouldn’t have helped me lol
I believe both locations share a focus of serving underserved populations but Bethlehem focuses on rural underserved vs Philly is urban underserved. I believe both St. Lukes and Philly students are in Philadelphia their first year then. Not too sure about St Lukes because I was accepted to Philly and that was my top choice since I wanted to be in a city location.
I really feel like there’s no way SAT/ACT scores are factored into admissions decisions. I know for Jefferson, who also asked for these scores, that SAT/ACT scores are only used for internal research purposes and I imagine that’s also the case at Temple. Don’t see any reason to stress about your scores! Just report them if you can and don’t if you can’t.
Looks like those who choose the Bethlehem campus will be there all four years now. Having never been to Philly or Bethlehem, I'm definitely struggling with this question. I'm leaning toward Bethlehem because it seems like it's a more underserved population, but I've been living in a city for the past 8 years so I worry about how much I'd like living in a more suburban area.
Actually what I've read is that Philly is the more underserved and Bethlehem is more rural from their website. But I'm also struggling since Bethlehem seems to have a better mentoring program for their med students; but not the specialties I want.
What specialties are they lacking?
I looked at what they're like best at and they didn't have pediatrics or neurology which is what I want to do. It seems they have a preference for emergency medicine, family/internal/geriatric, podiatric, etc. like lol not PEDs
The Philly location is in a very underserved part of Philadelphia (the avg household income was $17,000 in the last census and a neighboring community had a 61% poverty rate). You will be able to work with underserved at both locations.
Yes you can. I believe you have all of your first year to decide if you want to do it but not 100% sure.
Yes, you can opt into any dual degree program (other than the PhD program I think) after you begin the MD program. I also believe they are starting a new MD/MPH program in the near future in which the MPH is fully online and does not require an extra year before graduating with the MD.
Thanks for the insight; it sounds like you're pretty familiar with the campuses! Would you say the primary difference would simply be working with urban underserved vs a more rural community then?
I wonder what happened to it? I used to live in Pittsburgh and liked the city. I would've been interested in making the Allegheny Health Network my preferred clinical campus and even pre-wrote my secondary talking about how much I enjoyed living there for that prompt.
I just received an email that I’m complete and under review (submitted 7/3) so I guess the only way to know is to watch your inbox!
