Med. Schools that like Non-Trads?

[koalabear]

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Hi y'all!
i'm trying to figure out my med. school list- (i hope to be in the class of 2006) and am wondering if anyone knows which schools are particularly friendly to post-bacc. students. any input would be great!

 

[Hoberto]

I've heard Case has 10+% of each class over age 30.

I'd be interested in learning of any schools that are more likely to consider my app seriously, too. I am 2006 applicant. I read in a couple of the OSU interviews that nontrads were not wanted. I am wondering if those were just isolated cases or if OSU really DOES avoid nontrads.

 

[CanuckRazorback]

Pitt likes non-trads.

 

[vellaboy]

I'm a non-trad myself am just finishing up the oh-so-much-fun app/intvw/accptnce process. I was also looking for non-trad friendly schools and found Tulane to be very open to non-trads. I've heard the same of George Washington, but can't say from personal experience. Hop this helps!

 

[Tigger27]

Pitt likes non-trads.

I'm a non-trad (age 28) career changer that did a post-bac program. I actually found this to be okay, and even advantageous, most places - it gives great topics at interviews and everyone seemed really receptive. The one school that didn't seem as open ended up accepting me, too, so it goes to show you can never really tell or generalize. I found U.Chicago, Vermont,Mayo and Emory especially open. I've also heard USC/Keck likes non-trads, but no personal experience there. Good luck.

 

[ajt2003]

I'm a non-trad myself am just finishing up the oh-so-much-fun app/intvw/accptnce process. I was also looking for non-trad friendly schools and found Tulane to be very open to non-trads. I've heard the same of George Washington, but can't say from personal experience. Hop this helps!

Am also a non-trad. I think, at this stage of the game, most medical schools are very open to non-traditional students. We tend to have (obviously) more life experience, are certain of the reasons why we want to pursue medicine, and have worked really hard to get onto this path. So, we're in demand! Yay for us.

Anyways, Penn, Yale, Harvard and especially Cornell come to mind as schools having a fairly large proportion of non-traditional students. Truth is, wherever you'd like to attend, there will most likely be at least >10 students who are also non-traditional - you've got a small community right there!

 

[LadyGrey]

UVM seemed to have a lot of non trads, both as interviewees and students.

 

[bigdan]

I'll add Rochester too, and second the Emory vote.

dc

 

[QofQuimica]

I'm a non-trad applying this year too. I've contacted about two dozen schools, and all said they were open about accepting non-trads, as long as you are qualified (took the pre-reqs, have a good post bacc or graduate GPA, and a good MCAT). Looking through the MSAR, Creighton explicitly states that they encourage non-trads to apply.

 

[Scottish Chap]

Rochester or McMaster (for the Canadians).

 

[dr.z]

I was told George Washington is non-trad friendly.

 

[koalabear]

thanks y'all! i've heard GW was really friendly too. Does anyone know anything about it. It's not ranked- but does that really matter?

 

[pjm]

UMich, Case, and Columbia are all very interested in non-trad students.

 

[Emergency!]

"Open to non-trads" is a relative term. There are more and more non-traditional students applying every year, so being non-traditional isn't nearly as unique as it used to be. I think that most schools are probably open to non-traditionals as long as you are as qualified as other applicants. Don't count on being non-traditional giving you an edge.

That said - Wright State, UCinci, MCO and NEOUCOM all seemed very open to non-traditionals - somewhere along the line at each I got a "we think your age/experiences will ben an asset to the class" speech. (I interviewed at all of them) I definitely got non-trad friendly vibes from OSU (although I did get an interview and waitlisted there), but I think that its probably more about OSU's effort to increase its status and being a lot pickier in who they interview than an actual anti-nontrad effort.

 

[RaaMD]

drexel

 

[notdeadyet]

Someone started a similiar posting a while back and I jotted down the names of schools that were brought up as being non-trad friendly:

Columbia
Dartmouth
Wright State
Rush (Chicago)
Case Western
Cornell
Jefferson
Vermont
Albany
NYMC
Drexel
Finch
UCSF
George Washington
Albany
Pitt
Jefferson
UC Davis
NJMS

 

[j8131]

Let's turn this around. Which schools aren't non-trad friendly? In particular, which top schools are known for being particularly unfriendly to non-trads?

 

[rugirlie]

This is probably the most unhelpful post EVER but at my Gtown interview, I was told the age range of the 1st year class was 21 to 47! I remember thinking wow, they had no problem admitting a 47 year old. This doesn't necesasrily mean they are open to non-trads in general I suppose, but I think it says a lot.

 

[tommerbommer]

Let's turn this around. Which schools aren't non-trad friendly? In particular, which top schools are known for being particularly unfriendly to non-trads?

NYU is the worst that I encountered during my non-trad application process. I was told that they don't take many who took time off, and I was not invited to interview there. Yeah, yeah, that could have had nothing to do with the fact that I'm older and everything to do with ME, but it didn't seem to fit in the context of the other schools where I received interviews. Plus, only 10% of their student body has taken any time off at all (as reported in U.S. News), whereas the equivalent figure at Cornell is >50%.

I met a lot of other non-trads at both the Cornell and UPitt second look weekends, so I second the notion that both of those schools are non-trad friendly.

 

[jmugele]

Let's turn this around. Which schools aren't non-trad friendly? In particular, which top schools are known for being particularly unfriendly to non-trads?

Both Duke and WashU require that you have taken your prerequisites within a few years. So, if you're non-trad that's been out of school for a while, you're SOL even if you score great on the MCAT 🙄

 

[Mr. Seeds]

OHSU is very receptive toward non-trads. Ave. age of matriculants is ~26 I think.

 

[pushkin]

I'd be careful about choosing schools to apply to based on heresay about who is non-trad friendly. I think some schools probably do have more of a tendency to recruit non-traditional students, but that one particular variable is really hard to sort out from other things. I applied this past season (I'm 32 and have a non-science background) and got rejected by schools like Mayo, UCSF and Yale, all thought to be non-trad friendly. At the same time I got into some schools that I always thought had a bias towards younger students, including UCLA and NYU. Anyway, you should keep an open mind and apply where you are interested. Certainly, don't rule out a school just because of a rumor you heard.