Post-bacc at chiropractic college = M.D. adcom prejudice?

[calimeds]

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I don't mean to be starting too many threads, but this is a very specific question I need the answer to.

The post-bacc I'm in is at a chiropractic school - www.integratedscienceprogram.com - I found them through ads they have on this board.

The program is new - less than one year old I believe - which I think may be a strike against it already because it may not have any reputation yet.

And then there's the chiropractic issue - some of my classes are going for M.D. but most are taking these as a pre-chiropractic track. The program advertises itself as a pre-med program, and it is accredited, but I'm still worried about a chiropractic stigma being attached to it.

It has no linkages, which is another potential strike.

I'll review my opinion of it in another thread - there's been zero discussion or mention of it on these boards.

 

[DrMidlife]

Somebody who gets into MD school out of a chiro postbac gets in despite going to a chiro school. You might get away with it.

The pictured young man saying "I definitely feel that I will be prepared for a career in medicine" on the home page might have some basis to say that, and might end up in med school.

If you can learn the prereq material in "months not years!" well enough to do well on the MCAT and well enough to succeed in an SMP and then med school, more power to you.

You might get away with taking prereqs at a CC or online.

Sigh.

In a GPA comeback I recommend taking the high road. All the way up. 4 year university, preferably attached to a med school, for prereqs. Killer MCAT score, well above the average of 32. Do everything you can (everything you can) to demonstrate that your old bad grades aren't who you are now. The well-beaten premed path is well-beaten because people get into med school on it.

In California, in particular, you are competing with 10 squeaky clean exuberant tidy well-coached young overachievers for your seat in MD or DO school. Nationally, 60% of applicants are rejected. It is a mistake to think of those 60% as being low GPA low MCAT no personality criminal record candidates. Boatloads of premeds who are doing everything they can want your med school seat. Are the adcoms going to fight for you or doubt you?

Best of luck to you.

 

[NewmansOwn]

Dude. Totally bush league. Don't do it.