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[Med Ed]

Just some food for thought...

What are yall's opinions on regional campuses that accept applicants with lower GPA/MCAT than their main campus counterpart? For instance, I live in a state that has two MD schools, both with regional campuses that somewhat focus on rural healthcare and producing primary care physicians.

These campuses are known to accept applicants with lower stats than their main campuses. I know that the reason is because they are trying to produce rural/primary care physicians for the state but, at least to me, it seems like the fact that the standards are lower it kind of casts a negative light on primary care. Maybe if we stopped accepting people with stats well below average for these primary care focused campuses we would attract more people to those career paths?

IDK what are yall's thoughts?

Don’t quit your day job.

 

[Med Ed]

haha clearly you disagree, could you elaborate? Truly, Im just wondering why this happens? "this" being regional campuses accepting students with much weaker stats.
This may just be a thing that happens in my state but i know of two students with sub 500 MCATs who got interviewed at a regional campuses. One student got accepted, the other im not sure about.

day job = not being quit haha

So, let’s say you’re KU Salinas, which is mission-based and takes 8 students a year. Are you going to chase stats? Hell no. You’re going to prioritize people who want to study in Salinas and practice in rural Kansas, and it’s harder to find those individuals than it is to nail down a crop of 510/3.7’s. Anything higher than “good enough” metrics is gravy.

 

[BBBH2017]

Fair enough. So for most of them, the applicant will have to show a TRUE commitment to whatever it is that the school's mission is?

maybe it's just that i have a small sample of information, but a sub 500 is low for MD. yeah?

 

[Goro]

maybe it's just that i have a small sample of information, but a sub 500 is low for MD. yeah?

Yup