Guaranteed acceptance post-bacc

[iwilldlvr]

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Which schools have the guaranteed acceptance post-bacc programs? Thanks!

 

[Dr JPH]

I dont know of any that have guaranteed acceptance. I think they are at least conditional on maintaining a certain GPA, class rank or obtaining a certain MCAT score.

 

[iwilldlvr]

That's what I meant. Sorry. I know you must keep a certain gpa and maybe have some other stipulations. So, what schools have them?

 

[jkhamlin]

I dont know of any that have guaranteed acceptance. I think they are at least conditional on maintaining a certain GPA, class rank or obtaining a certain MCAT score.

KCUMB has a one year master's, and their "condition" is that you pass with good standing, which pretty much means that you don't fail and you behave yourself. It's expensive, though. I recommend that you just go a traditional master's route, 2 years is not that long, and it gives you just enough time to prepare for reapplication and matriculation. Trust me, good standing in a traditional master's in a basic science makes you VERY competitive.

 

[mshheaddoc]

KCUMB's official stance is a 3.0+ in the masters, this is only their 2nd year though so we'll see how things fare. They had all but one of the 18 people get into med school. The one person dropped out apparently. I would actually go as far to consider this a SMP actually.

As stated, none of the post-baccs are guaranteed sadly .... some of them put you in great positions though.

 

[jkhamlin]

KCUMB's official stance is a 3.0+ in the masters, this is only their 2nd year though so we'll see how things fare. They had all but one of the 18 people get into med school. The one person dropped out apparently. I would actually go as far to consider this a SMP actually.

As stated, none of the post-baccs are guaranteed sadly .... some of them put you in great positions though.

Correct. That is what you need to pass in many, if not most, graduate programs. In the master's program I am in now, you can only have two C's, your graduate GPA has to stay above 3.0. Below a 3.0 is failing in grad school. It's not like undergrad.

My cousin was in that first year. He is now attending the medical school. I applied their first year, and I couldn't even get into that. 🙁

 

[mshheaddoc]

I was extremely surprised at the "low" grades in that program. If I remember right the avg gpa was 3.1 that first year with an avg MCAT of 18 (or something really low in the teens like that). Best part of that program is that if you take the GRE you can bypass the MCAT all together

It is extremely competitive now. Last year they took 25% of applicants, this year I haven't heard the numbers yet ... but I know they are probably better and they were expecting 3-4x's the applicants from last year.

 

[iwilldlvr]

So, are KCOM and TCOM the only ones? Surely there are more. I don't know if I can apply to the TCOM biomedical science program due to the requirement of the bachelor's in chem, biochem, biology, or something similar. I decided to get a BS in interdisciplinary studies (basically 3 minors- biology, chemistry, psychology).

 

[MJB]

I thought the program at KCUMB required a 3.5 or above for automatic admittance to the DO program.

 

[jkhamlin]

I thought the program at KCUMB required a 3.5 or above for automatic admittance to the DO program.

Not unless they changed it recently.

 

[MJB]

I really don't know for sure, but I was pretty certain that's what I had read.

It's not a program I'm overly interested in (the masters program). I wanna be a phsyician, and have been very impressed with their DO program.

 

[mshheaddoc]

They might have "set" requirements this year ... but for that first year, those are the stats given to me by the school .

Actually it was 2.75 gpa avg (maybe I wrote it down wrong?) but the science was 3.1/3.2, 1100 GRE, and it was actually 20 MCAT score. For 20 students accepted and 70 that applied.

And that program helps people become physicians since it gives students a chance to prove themselves!

 

[MJB]

I was referring to the requirement that you achieve at least a 3.5 GPA in the program to be automatically accepted into the DO program.

 

[mshheaddoc]

gotcha. I'm sure that went up as well. I was told 3.0 by a student and the person from the school but this was also last year.

 

[heyroth]

Speaking to the admissions at kcumb for their master's program, 3.0 is the gpa need to matriculate. That was what i was told applying this year.

 

[MJB]

Is it 3.0 to get into the master's program, or maintain a 3.0 or higher to gain the automatic seat in the med school class?

 

[allia]

You need to maintain a 3.0 in order to matriculate into the medical school. I was told that recently.