That is purely subjective of a statement. Even if you want to play hypotheticals that he got into BU MAMS, what are the chances that he would end up back in Chicago? BU MAMS isn't a high linkage program and only accepts 20-25 of their students from their own class of 180 into Boston University. Furthermore it's 40,000 per year and it requires you to finish your first year before applying to qualify for the committee letter, putting you at a minimum of 3 years before you can matriculate into medical school, saying you apply out this fall and get accepted into BU MAMS/GMS class of 2011 and apply out of MAMS your second year to get accepted in 2013. That's 80,000 dollars of tuition and 3 years off of your peak income as a physician had you gone taken the seat to attend KCOM. Let's say your peak income is 200,000 for 3 years that's 600,000 + 80,000 = 680,000 not including interest from those loans as well as the other cost of attendances including living in Boston etc. Then you need to deal with the uncertainty that you might not even get into medical school right away as an acceptance in an SMP hardly equates to an acceptance into medical school. Then you have to consider the very realistic possibility that he might not even get into a school in Chicago which is the whole purpose for this post. There are only 2 SMPs in Chicago (CCOM MBS and RFU MSBS) unless you want to consider the traditional M.S. degrees offered at LUC.
Are you really posting to offer advice for the OP? Or idiotically arguing for the sake of trying to point out that someone is wrong in your mind in SDN?
Top 2 SMPs? I'm assuming you're referring to Gtown SMP and which other? EVMS? UCinn? BU MAMS? Tufts MBS? His stats are below par for Gtown SMP in both GPA and MCAT and if you really want to talk about getting into other medical schools after a "successful" completion of Gtown, there are numerous posts by current Gtown SMPers who have a 3.7 in the program who have yet to be accepted to any medical school.
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showpost.php?p=9499026&postcount=227
(current Gtown SMP student with a 3.7 in the program and yet to be accepted anywhere. His MCAT is also a 37R with UG stats of 3.1)
This is RFU's 2006 entering class stats
http://www.rosalindfranklin.edu/dnn/administration/Admissions/CMS/2006class/tabid/1684/Default.aspx
It's up to you whether you want to believe ongoing trends that stats should be higher now since several years have passed.
Yes this doesn't include the MSBS class stats I know but it goes to show you that CMS' entering class averages from 4 years ago are higher in both GPA and MCAT to the OP. If AMCAS/AACOMAS matriculant profiles are any indication, those numbers are going up every year.
Are there people with lower GPA/MCAT that have been accepted into MSBS? Sure. But you need to beast the Physiology class and obtain an A against the MS1 average to get accepted in CMS. They boast a rough 70% acceptance from their MSBS class into the medical school which is considered a high linkage but there is always the uncertainty of are you going to be apart of that 70% or 30%. There is also the 36,000 tuition and that extra year that you have taken off not to mention to apply to any other programs outside of CMS, you will be required to take a lag year which will put you up into 3 years before possible matriculation into another medical school. He won't even make the application cycle this round as acceptances have already gone out a week ago for RFU's MSBS class for this fall making it 2 years before he can even concievably matriculate into CMS if all things go his way. (2x200000)+36000 = 436,000 for an uncertain shot at CMS rather than an acceptance from KCOM where you will probably be able to rotate in chicago after 2 years? Really?
