Is Bachelors required for DO school ?

[djquick83]

I wanted to know if it is important to have a Bachelors upon entering DO school. Most ppl have it, especially since they just finished 4 yrs of college, but is it absolutely manditory? Also, when a person is accepted, do the programs care what grades you get on the transcript that they havent seen after being admitted to the school?

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[OSUdoc08]

I wanted to know if it is important to have a Bachelors upon entering DO school. Most ppl have it, especially since they just finished 4 yrs of college, but is it absolutely manditory? Also, when a person is accepted, do the programs care what grades you get on the transcript that they havent seen after being admitted to the school?

No.

You are required to have a minimum of 3 years of college for admission to MD and DO school. Prerequisites must be present with MCAT.

There is no current requirement for a bachelor's degree to enter either profession.

HOWEVER,

if you perform poorly after being admitted (i.e. failing grades or multiple C's in science classes that drop your science GPA significantly or especially in prerequisite classes), then they reserve the right to revoke your admission

 

[OnMyWayThere]

Not required, but 99.x % of the students have a bachelors degree... so I'd say it is HIGHLY recommended.

 

[Idiopathic]

No.

You are required to have a minimum of 3 years of college for admission to MD and DO school. Prerequisites must be present with MCAT.

There is no current requirement for a bachelor's degree to enter either profession.

HOWEVER,

if you perform poorly after being admitted (i.e. failing grades or multiple C's in science classes that drop your science GPA significantly or especially in prerequisite classes), then they reserve the right to revoke your admission

This is entirely school-specific. Some schools will take you without a degree, others will not, regardless of whether or not the law says you must have a bachelor's degree to become a licensed physician (it does not). One or two of my classmates do not have degrees.

 

[raptor5]

There is no current requirement for a bachelor's degree to enter either profession.

PCOM does not require a degree for acceptance but does before matriculation. As idiopathic said, it is entirely school specific. There are even quite a few in my class with graduate degrees. A handful with MPHs', a few with an MS in biomed, a chiropractor, a few PharmD's, and even (cring....) a lawyer who I am convinced is just there to figure out how to sue physicians more effectively.

 

[sophiejane]

You should get your bachelor's degree, if for no other reason than to make some reasonable attempt at being a well-rounded human before you get tossed into the pressure-cooker of medical school that is a non-stop infusion of left-brain activity. (..with the possible exception of OMM, which seems to involve a fair amount of right-brain action. 🙂 )

Take english and history and philosophy and art. Learn about the world. Take a year off and travel. Teach school for a year (all doctors should have to have some experience teaching--it's what you will be doing with your patients for the rest of your career). All of these things will make you a far better physician in the long run than overloading on science and diving in to medical school as soon as possible.

 

[OnMyWayThere]

It is to your best interest to get your bachelors if you want a reasonsable chance at ANY of the schools, regardless of what their website says. Contact the admissions directors and you will see.