John hopkins post bacc ?

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Any one has idea about this program and it has linkage program as well with medical school. My main idea is to complete pre reqs and I am a non traditional student

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[Rachapkis]

Their website is pretty informative. I would consult it prior to posing questions here.

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[BUSM24Student]

Went to JohnS hopkins as an undergrad. The post-bacs take the same courses as the undergrads but they get graded separately. The ones I interacted with hated their lives. Hopkins has some grade deflation in classes, so the post-bacs got pretty stressed about that. A decent number of them dropped out during the first semester; however, the ones I knew that did finish were able to get into some great med schools because of the linkage program. It's a highhhhhhh stress program but there are also huge rewards.

 

[|A|B|C|InTheMake]

The cost for the program is so high but what type of stress we are talking about here? too much course work or too much lab or too many exams? or a too difficult questionnaire? I have sent the email to the program coordinator and waiting for the reply. Sometimes, being a non-traditional student also might feel stressful for the new course curriculum?

 

[BUSM24Student]

The cost for the program is so high but what type of stress we are talking about here? too much course work or too much lab or too many exams? or a too difficult questionnaire? I have sent the email to the program coordinator and waiting for the reply. Sometimes, being a non-traditional student also might feel stressful for the new course curriculum?

Quick disclosure: everything I wrote about JHU is from my undergrad experience. In order to get a committee letter you need to keep above a 3.5 GPA. Since it's a post bac program you're pretty much doing the premed curriculum in a year instead of 4 so you'll end up taking multiple difficult courses at once. My experience at Hopkins was that often, the averages on exams were extremely low, but since there are ~200-300 people in some courses (orgo, bio, biochem), the professors don't need to curve because there will be enough outlier students that will get As. For example, in my orgo class the professor was content with the class average being ~30-35%. His rationale was that since there were 2 or 3 students that would get grades >90%, if he made the exams easier for everyone else, he wouldn't be able to gauge the abilities of those 2 or 3 students.
You'll also find that since you're taking most of the premed courses, the exam schedules for most of the courses generally follow the same timeline so you'll be studying for multiple exams at once and the professors won't care that a few post bacs have multiple exams at the same time because the undergrads probably aren't taking bio, chemistry, and chemistry lab at the same time.

Edit: Don't want to make it seem like I'm constantly bashing on Hopkins. I like to think that I gained a lot of knowledge from JHU. The people who do succeed at the post bac program are very nicely rewarded for their hard work. It's a high risk high reward program and multiple people do it every year. I have no idea what you can and can't do so even if I had a hard time at Hopkins that won't mean you will! 🙂

 

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That is a really good way of looking at things. I agree with the fact, that post bacc student has to work very hard when medical school is the only aim when the opportunities are bleak. Considering the fact, if post bacc is completed but less GPA than supposed to be graduating with, what would be other options? Does post bacc degree count towards anything else? Of course, MCAT still has to be good for other schools! Do you have any other recommendations for post bacc and post bacc with linkage? The last option I would go with Non-Degree undergraduate courses at a nearby university or CC.

 

[|A|B|C|InTheMake]

are these the only universities with postbacc linkage programs?

Bryn Mawr
Goucher
UPenn
Georgetown
John Hopkins
Scripps
Univ of Virginia
Columbia


Univ of Pittsburg (MS in Biomedical)

 

[Angus Avagadro]

are these the only universities with postbacc linkage programs?

Bryn Mawr
Goucher
UPenn
Georgetown
John Hopkins
Scripps
Univ of Virginia
Columbia


Univ of Pittsburg (MS in Biomedical)

Temple

 

[|A|B|C|InTheMake]

@Angus Avagadro , it seems it provides conditional acceptance to only Temple and does not seem to have linkage with other programs but still requires MCAT and min GPA 3.6

and I need admission as an int'l student. I have a Master's Degree from the USA

 

[Angus Avagadro]

@Angus Avagadro , it seems it provides conditional acceptance to only Temple and does not seem to have linkage with other programs but still requires MCAT and min GPA 3.6

and I need admission as an int'l student. I have a Master's Degree from the USA

Agreed. How many admissions are you looking for? You can only attend one. Temple is a good school. It's not Hopkins, but is in a similar tough neighborhood.

 

[|A|B|C|InTheMake]

haha, at this point I am looking for some universities who can provide admissions to Int'l students with a foreign undergraduate degree. I have emailed Temple, but it seems they require post bacc/undergraduate degree in the US or Canada but Masters from the US is not recognized.

Apart from admission, having linkages to more schools might help as an Int'l student. Seems like the majority of such schools with linkages are from the east coast.