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Hello Everyone-
I am a current PhD student in human biology and I have decided to go MD-PhD one way or the other. My university (UMich) has been fairly receptive to the idea thus far and encouraged me to apply to their MSTP program. However, I wanted to wait and see my MCAT scores before following through. I received my MCAT score yesterday and feel that it is competitive. I have now applied to UMich and I am considering applying to other schools to potentially open up some more options. Although there are two problems with this
1. My research is based at this university and I am not sure if I am comfortable doing my dissertation somewhere else or if it will be possible to do the dissertation somewhere else
2. I am unclear as to how late in the application cycle this is for MSTP programs. My understanding is that many of the MSTP programs do not follow rolling admissions (e.g. Harvard) and instead have set interview dates with a set decision period.
While the first problem is basically mine to sort out and, potentially much more complicated, I was wondering if anyone could offer any advice or thoughts on this predicament or on the logistics of problem 2.
Thanks for any help.
I am a current PhD student in human biology and I have decided to go MD-PhD one way or the other. My university (UMich) has been fairly receptive to the idea thus far and encouraged me to apply to their MSTP program. However, I wanted to wait and see my MCAT scores before following through. I received my MCAT score yesterday and feel that it is competitive. I have now applied to UMich and I am considering applying to other schools to potentially open up some more options. Although there are two problems with this
1. My research is based at this university and I am not sure if I am comfortable doing my dissertation somewhere else or if it will be possible to do the dissertation somewhere else
2. I am unclear as to how late in the application cycle this is for MSTP programs. My understanding is that many of the MSTP programs do not follow rolling admissions (e.g. Harvard) and instead have set interview dates with a set decision period.
While the first problem is basically mine to sort out and, potentially much more complicated, I was wondering if anyone could offer any advice or thoughts on this predicament or on the logistics of problem 2.
Thanks for any help.