Are there any other programs like Temple that have direct admissions into the medical school if a certain GPA and MCAT are achieved.
I am not talking about linkages.
I am not talking about linkages.
Post-Bac with direct admittance into their Med School (NO GLIDE YEAR)
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Postbac isn't a very good term to use here. (Or anywhere. Stupid term.)
There are no direct admissions from SMPs, not even at Temple. You have to get in, perform well, interview well, and be admissible. Lots of out clauses.
That said, Tulane ACP puts 90%+ of its grads straight into Tulane, EVMS puts 80%+ into EVMS or elsewhere, and Cincy puts at least 70% into Cincy or elsewhere. At least one of Drexel's programs has a guaranteed interview.
Best of luck to you.
There are no direct admissions from SMPs, not even at Temple. You have to get in, perform well, interview well, and be admissible. Lots of out clauses.
That said, Tulane ACP puts 90%+ of its grads straight into Tulane, EVMS puts 80%+ into EVMS or elsewhere, and Cincy puts at least 70% into Cincy or elsewhere. At least one of Drexel's programs has a guaranteed interview.
Best of luck to you.
Do you have sources for these numbers? If that's the case, it'd be in everyones best interest to enroll in a program that has the higher chance of bridging into an MD program, right?
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Some Medical Schools have a conditional acceptance program where when you apply to their medical school and the admissions feels like you're a good applicant but has a low GPA or something, they put you in their so called "Post Bac Program" and have you take courses with their 1st year medical students, achieve a certain GPA (> 3.0) and you retain a spot in their medical school the following year.
Wake Forest is one of them.
DPMS (Drexel Pathway to school of medicine) is another however that program is for disadvantage students or URM (underepresentative minority).
ABLE program is another (I forgot to school. I'm writing this on top of my head). Just search up that program.
There a few more but I can't recall it at the moment. I had it written down on my white board.
Just do your research rather than ask others. That's what I did. I research them. Just type in Conditional acceptance Medical Schools and there will be a few. Take time to read the description and see if its something you'll be interested in.
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Numbers are available on the program websites, usually, and clarified in this forum in the program-specific threads.
Do a ton of reading if you want to make a good choice. Second guess any single opinion on SDN. It's a good sign if multiple SDN posters over multiple years support claims made by programs about med school acceptances. It's NOT a good sign if you can't find evidence to back up a program's claim that it helps get people into med school.
Best of luck to you.
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Its also worth noting a significant difference between "conditional acceptance" and "conditional interview"...
The # you want to know for the latter is the # who get into the school after the conditional interview, not just the # who get the conditional interview. That number can be much much harder to find
The # you want to know for the latter is the # who get into the school after the conditional interview, not just the # who get the conditional interview. That number can be much much harder to find
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Also, just because you get into a conditional acceptance program, it doesn't mean you're guaranteed a spot into the medical school. It's just a contract between you and the medical school. You also need to obtain certain numbers like GPA in order to retain your spot.
Most SMP programs have conditional interviews, but it doesn't mean guaranteed acceptance so that's the negative side to it. =/
The other conditional acceptance program is
Ohio State Med Path
Michigan State (ABLE)
DPMS
Wake Forest
DPMS is the only program that has a separate application. THe other 3 programs, you have to apply through the AMCAS website. For the Wake Forest application, once you submit you application, you call into admissions office to tell them to forward it to the post bac program. As for the other 2 post bac (Ohio State and MIchigan State), you have to be recommended by the admissions committee.
That's the only 4 I found that conditionally accepts you. SOme are for disadvatange and minorities though.
Good luck!
Most SMP programs have conditional interviews, but it doesn't mean guaranteed acceptance so that's the negative side to it. =/
The other conditional acceptance program is
Ohio State Med Path
Michigan State (ABLE)
DPMS
Wake Forest
DPMS is the only program that has a separate application. THe other 3 programs, you have to apply through the AMCAS website. For the Wake Forest application, once you submit you application, you call into admissions office to tell them to forward it to the post bac program. As for the other 2 post bac (Ohio State and MIchigan State), you have to be recommended by the admissions committee.
That's the only 4 I found that conditionally accepts you. SOme are for disadvatange and minorities though.
Good luck!
Drexel in Philadelphia has an evening post-bacc program that has affiliation with their own medical school and I believe one of the NJ med schools.
I don't know if it's 100% assured providing you have certain stats though. From what I understand (and this was heard from a previous student of the program, so this is by no means official) you have to have a 3.5+ and a 30+ MCAT to be considered at the end of their 2 year program, but once again, I'm not 100% sure if it makes you a shoe-in. When I asked on the phone with the PMED program they kind of avoided answering which leads me to believe strongly nothing's assured and grades/scores alone might mean squat.
All I know 100% for sure based on my phone call with their PMED department is you must take every single post-bacc course in their structured program to be considered for linkage. If, for example, you took Bio earlier and got an A you'd still have to retake it in their program or forego their linkage.
Sorry for the confusion in my previous post. I've since edited it to make more sense.
I don't know if it's 100% assured providing you have certain stats though. From what I understand (and this was heard from a previous student of the program, so this is by no means official) you have to have a 3.5+ and a 30+ MCAT to be considered at the end of their 2 year program, but once again, I'm not 100% sure if it makes you a shoe-in. When I asked on the phone with the PMED program they kind of avoided answering which leads me to believe strongly nothing's assured and grades/scores alone might mean squat.
All I know 100% for sure based on my phone call with their PMED department is you must take every single post-bacc course in their structured program to be considered for linkage. If, for example, you took Bio earlier and got an A you'd still have to retake it in their program or forego their linkage.
Sorry for the confusion in my previous post. I've since edited it to make more sense.
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I'm on the drexel-hating bandwagon so I def would not recommend it to anyone as a top choice program.
And its just a guaranteed interview I believe, and very few people made it into the school
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Robflanker, why do you hate the Drexel PMED program? I am seriously considering it. Also, the linkage is 27 and 3.0 in the program and I was told that most who apply get in. If you have contrary information, please share. Thanks.
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I don't believe its a link - and a 27 is shockingly low considering the avg MCAT for nationwide accepted students is now 31. So firstly I question that stat. And its def not "most"
And the Drexel (Walmart) program has been beaten to death here. Do some reading and you'll see the positives.
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Do you know people who tried to link and didn't get in? And the Drexel PMED program has not been beaten to death here. In fact it is complete opposite. Just to clarify, I am only speaking about the evening postbac premed program and not the SMPs.
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I know what Drexel PMED is and IMO suffers from the symptoms that all the Drexel programs do; hence why if you read the complaints about IMS (for example) you might see how that would affect PMED...
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Ugh - do your own HW. I am not doing your research on SDN for you.
It gets really boring and annoying for those of us who have been around here for a while to have the same conversation with people every 2 weeks cos no-one feels like doing their own HW. Research it, if you still have Qs or want to discuss something then bring it to the table and people will give you their insight/thoughts.
Here i'll get you started - it has very little to do with the size of the program....
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