California Northstate University Pre-Medical Post-Bac

[SexyDrJejunumIleum]

Has anyone heard anything about this program or know anyone currently in it?

Also, it's one of the rare programs out there that promise an interview to their medical school for students who do exceptionally well.




http://healthsciences.cnsu.edu/post-baccalaureate-programs/about

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[etp123]

I think @Goro talked about CNSU before and might be able to elucidate more, but apparently you do NOT want to go to Cal Northstate. They are for profit and have a number of other shady details, so save your money and avoid.

 

[Goro]

Not rare at all. My school does this, as to many others. It's rarer that admission is guaranteed for good SMP students.

Look up what the wise @gyngyn has to say about CNU. In a nutshell, they do things that would get other MD schools sanctioned by LCME (who dropped the ball on CNU).

Has anyone heard anything about this program or know anyone currently in it?

Also, it's one of the rare programs out there that promise an interview to their medical school for students who do exceptionally well.

http://healthsciences.cnsu.edu/post-baccalaureate-programs/about

 

[SexyDrJejunumIleum]

Aside from the medical school, and purely for its post bac program, and specifically the academic enhancement track, would you suppose this program provide unique opportunities to better oneself as an applicant for medical school admissions in general?

They have integrated community-service learning into their curriculum, they allow students to learn and become standardized patients for current medical students, provide committee letters who are successful in completing the program, and an optional MCAT review provided by Kaplan.

It appears that their post bac program offers a well rounded approach in improving one's overall application to a professional school and so, looking at an academic record enhancement perspective, would their postbac program be potentially beneficial for an applicant to apply to medical schools in general?

I get the notion (judging from a number of other posts) that there is a large bias against this institution and wonder if adcoms share the same feelings, thereby dismissing an applicants post bac experience at CNU.

 

[gyngyn]

Aside from the medical school, and purely for its post bac program, and specifically the academic enhancement track, would you suppose this program provide unique opportunities to better oneself as an applicant for medical school admissions in general?

Absolutely not.

 

[DrMidlife]

It's a for-profit school. That's what the Caribbean schools are. That's what RVU is.

It's the first for-profit US MD school since the Flexner report 100 years ago. It's a stain on the profession. If I refer to it as Hollywood Upstairs to a MD school faculty member, anywhere in the country, I don't have to explain what I'm talking about. Everybody facepalm.

And good god, you sound like a marketing bot. In other words, you sound like a marketing victim. Compare this program to the real SMPs such as Georgetown, Cincinnati, Boston. The lure of staying in California is obviously strong. Strong like a cash register.

The program web page trumpets the 4 grads who got into the host med school or the host pharm school. Who knows? Those are some crap results for $30k. Regardless, there is no data yet on whether anybody gets into a med school other than Upstairs from its postbac.

Don't even start looking at those shiny SGU and Ross posters now. Eyes on your shoes, sir.

 

[SexyDrJejunumIleum]

Thanks very much for your input.
the for-profit designation does place a stain on the profession and based on that, one can only imagine the narrative given by the instructors.