If rejected from combined program, but accepted into MD-only....

[microgin]

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Just curious... if one is rejected from the combined MD/PhD program at a school, but is offered (and accepts) a slot in the first year medical school class, do the odds of acceptance into the PhD program increase upon reapplication the following year? Does anyone have any experience with this in East Coast schools??

Thanks!!

 

[Maebea]

Just curious... if one is rejected from the combined MD/PhD program at a school, but is offered (and accepts) a slot in the first year medical school class, do the odds of acceptance into the PhD program increase upon reapplication the following year? Does anyone have any experience with this in East Coast schools??

Thanks!!

Your odds would not increase unless you did something to substantially increase the competitiveness of your application, such as doing some pretty good research at that medical school either during the summer or the school year. The only other way your chances would increase would be if the program had some students drop out and they had to fill NIH-funded slots. For the program that I am associated with, less than 1% of the matriculants have been med students who were previously rejected by the MSTP. Those that were eventually accepted all did research during med school.

It might be helpful if you designated which East Coast school(s) interests you. There are 17 MSTP-funded schools that lie on the East Coast, so it is impossible to generalize about them. If you narrow down the list, it is possible that some SDNers from those schools can give you annecdotes about their programs.

 

[microgin]

How about Jefferson and Dartmouth (both non-MSTP funded), and UCONN and Yale (MSTP funded)??

 

[Neuronix]

Call and ask! They'll usually be up front with you about this sort of thing. Please report what you find back, as this may be useful for other applicants or future applicants.

 

[clockitnow]

I know that for the Harvard/MIT program, if you get rejected MD/PhD, you can get accepted HST and/or NP only. I met someone who this happened to. She accepted HST and was luckily given an MSTP spot during the summer.