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She's probably no help as she takes forever to respond. I could pass on your questions though 🙂 I know she got a 495 on her MCAT the year before that and got a successful interview and got into the DO program after completing the MMS program. She's at their Seton Hill campus.
Yeah, no problem! I'm just as curious to know if they offer tutoring services for LECOM or what because I really would use the tutoring services a lot. Also, I wonder if they are having classes in person in August. I guess we will just get updated the closer to the start of term. If you go onto your LECOM Portal, you can see previous years' textbook list. I already have their anatomy textbook since my current anatomy class uses it. I might end up renting the others, though. What do you think about forming study groups if they don't offer tutoring?
Do they have tutors at LECOM? My friend went through their MMS program as well but didn't use any help. But if I wanted help, I just want to know if they had any tutors. Also, I'm planning to take the MCAT in September so when do they usually do the interviews for the DO program?
They do but with COVID they suspended the tutoring program because the students were all online. They suspended it for all of LECOM tho in Erie (idk about other campuses) so MS1s as well don’t have tutors. I don’t know anyone who used tutors though from my year but if you find someone who did the MMS that’s comfortable with you asking them questions that’s just as good as having a tutor. They do interviews in Jan/feb based off of first semester GPA. I’d recommend placing your MCAT for the last date in January that LECOM takes and utilizing your winter break to study for the MCAT. You simply just can’t study well for the MCAT and do top tier in the program at the same time. But you won’t have to study for the bio/biochem section after the first semester at all though.
Usually it starts in the beginning of august. And I’ll tell you 1 month of slacking is enough to make someone fail a class. It’s that easy to do. The MMS classes are medical school level of information with just more time given. You have an exam every 2 weeks. For example you will have already completed cell bio by September from the first two exams so if you’re not studying for those you can easily lose the ability to matriculate. Plenty of students did not take it seriously and lost their ability to matriculate from the very first exam.
Summer before you start and winter break. If you do full dedicated days you should be fine with 3 weeks break to do a lot of work. If you have a great GPA fall semester then the first couple weeks of January you will have good enough habits to study some for MCAT till your test date and still do well in class. I know I might sound crazy now but from someone who has completed the coursework you’ll understand the first week of classes.
I figured out my gameplan for this. I'm gonna take it the end of July and start studying in March.
my friend sent me a photo with the textbooks she has from last year in the program but you can find it online on your LECOM portal under the Bookstore tab and labeled Erie MMS i think. They may have updated versions they'll probably send us.
If you have above a 497 or AIS score of 112 you’re good to go. Having a higher MCAT won’t get you accepted anymore than someone who got a 497 it’s based on first semester grades. I HIGHLY recommend not doing anything and doing all the things you’ve wanted to do. If you start early you’ll reach burnout before the end of the semester. It’s a rough first semester transition. Reading the books aren’t helpful before class either. I don’t recommend using previous years notes until you know it will be the same professor/lecture because professors change and the entire lecture is different. What I would recommend is getting on a good sleep schedule, get a routine started. Having a routine is super key in success. Look at your study methods now and see how you can change them if they don’t work in the beginning (most have to change the way they study). If you want to use anki get familiar with how to do that before class. Wait till the latest book list gets sent over summer because they change editions a lot and you need the exact one they list. I personally didn’t use a single book until the last class of the semester so.
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I got an email from the director of the MMS program, Jack Ogdon, and he said that for the first few weeks of August, classes will be online. It fully depends on COVID during the summer but it seemed like they were gonna transition back to being in-person. I have attached the formal e-mail I received a week or so ago.
Thank you! I hope they will notify students in advance on the re-opening of in-person classes because I will need to figure out housing options then.
No. But it’s nonrefundable. You can drop at any part of the program too. You just won’t get your tuition back unless it’s the first couple weeks, then it’s like half back.
Yup, me too! Cost effective and as per current students it has been efficiently operated by the faculty members.
Basically my way of thinking too! And I guess they’re ironing out the online vs in person stuff before sending out the packets.
Looks like this program is more favorable for med school. Dental students in the past found hard time to matriculate into their dental school as per the posters in this forum. I am not sure how true that is though.
I don't think they will decide upon switching online to in-person in middle of academic year because it will create chaos. Entire academic year will be either online or in-person, but its a good idea to have apartment hunt down for any possibility. Bradenton MMS is online entire academic year for your reference.
Pretty low. They have higher requirements sometimes than the medical school (like a .1 GPA higher or something I think the year I did it) because they have less seats and of course the DAT. granted there was only maybe 6-8 students out of 185ish that were dental I think. I think all but 1 or 2 dropped out. 2 I knew personally who dropped. What became of the ones who didn’t drop, I’m not really sure. So it’s not a very good picture because the year before me only 45 matriculated of the 180-190 of medical students so it’s not like the stats are fantastic regardless.
It is NEVER guaranteed, EVER, that you will matriculate with interview + GPA. However, yeah, it’s like 100% probably for those who had GPA and interview that didn’t do something stupid like harass their classmates or get a drug charge or something. There’s a couple here and there that got in with like .02 or whatever below the cut off 2-3 weeks into school. Some who barely made the cut off who also didn’t get in until a week after school started. You need to excel to secure your spot early, not just make the GPA cut off.
im in!
Woot woot! How should we go about this?
Well your grades won’t matter without meeting the MCAT unless you have the AIS score because you can’t matriculate without it regardless even if you have a 4.0.
Apply. You can be on the waitlist until class begins for the D.O. Program. Then you won’t have time to apply.
I would be down to be in a study group. Will most likely start studying in mid-June as classes begin on August 2nd.
