Post-bacc Programs Guaranteeing Med School Admissions

[Keg]

So my girlfriend has wanted to go into pediatric neurology forever (or at least the last two years); however, her stats aren't stellar. In fact, I doubt she could get into a DO school with what she's sporting right now.

I remember reading, perhaps here or elsewhere, about one-year programs for graduated students during which you took some science classes, prepped for the MCAT, and if you did passably well in the classes and on the MCAT, you were guaranteed a seat in an associated medical school. However, I can't, for the life of me, remember any of these programs, since I just tossed them from my memory after an acceptance came in. If you all know of any of these, if you could post them up, perhaps someone else would find use in them, too. Thanks, y'all!

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[-Goose-]

Jimmy,

Georgetown SMP. http://www8.georgetown.edu/departments/physiology/physios/

no 'guarantee', but an 85% success rate.

bfs

 

[-Goose-]

I interviewed with a girl who was in this program.

http://www.siumed.edu/medprep/

I think she had a spot promised at SIU-med for the c/o 2010.

(IL resident?)

 

[Kris1]

Check out The Ohio State's MedPath program. Big thumbs up. They accept about 15 people per year to matriculate and be offered a conditional acceptance into their medical school.

 

[deleted77919]

You can look up various programs using this link.

http://services.aamc.org/postbac/

I don't recall seeing any that guaranteed admissions, except perhaps one at Wake Forest designated for URM's only.

 

[Keg]

Jimmy,

Georgetown SMP. http://www8.georgetown.edu/departments/physiology/physios/

no 'guarantee', but an 85% success rate.

bfs

We need to beer, and soon.

 

[nrddct]

crieghton has a guaranteed acceptance. The catch is you have to be a underrepresented minority or be economically, financially disadvantaged.

 

[relentless11]

If your gf is willing to travel, here in CA, we have Mills College and Scripps that have linkage programs. Both programs are very competative to get. Scripps requires the person to not be a pre-med before applying. It is intended for career changers (therefore have not taken the MCAT). All of these programs are quite rigorous. Some SMPs have you take full course load which include some med school courses. Its rough. So your gf better be ready for the onslaught. 🙂

 

[-Goose-]

We need to beer, and soon.

you know thats right

 

[Sondra]

University of Mississippi - Professional Portal Track

http://som.umc.edu/admissions.html#PPT

You have to apply for med school and formally denied admissions in order to apply for the program.

 

[sneaker7]

Popular one year post-bacs include Bryn Mawr and Goucher. Goucher has had a 100% acceptance rate to med school in the last ~ 4yrs (doesn't mean every one makes it through the program though). Both schools have many linkage programs too (no guarantees here either, but some linkages are not as competitive). Getting into the post-bac programs may be the hardes part.

 

[ussdfiant]

Moving to Post Bac forum.

 

[dr1day]

You can look up various programs using this link.

http://services.aamc.org/postbac/

I don't recall seeing any that guaranteed admissions, except perhaps one at Wake Forest designated for URM's only.

Wake's program is NOT designated for URMs only.

 

[ghostchild]

The medical school guaranteed admission program you might be thinking of accepts high school students. I think there are various colleges, like VCU, that will accept undergrads into a guaranteed admission program but you have to have great stats, like a 1450 SAT (on the old scale) and a few other things.

As far as the SMP programs you might want to check out Georgetown which some people have mentioned along with EVMS, BU, and several others on the website. Some have different time requirements, 1 yr compared to 2. I think all 3 programs, Georgetown, BU, and EVMS, matriculate about 80-85% into medical school sometimes higher depending on who keeps trying year after year in the application process. There are many other links on this site to find out info about these schools and their programs but the best thing to do would be to go to the AAMC site posted earlier in this thread or to the specific site for each school to get all the info and stats on them.

 

[deleted77919]

Wake's program is NOT designated for URMs only.

I based that on this information:

http://www1.wfubmc.edu/MDProgram/St...ost+Graduate+Students/Post+Bac.Premedical.htm

It is under their minority page and says that "Priorities are given to populations underrepresented in medicine or economically <sic> disadvantage students."

So, perhaps not just URM, but someone economically disadvantaged or underrepresented. Keep in mind this is their own linkage program (the OP was asking about guaranteed admissions), they might have another post-bac which I am unaware of.

 

[notdeadyet]

If your gf is willing to travel, here in CA, we have Mills College and Scripps that have linkage programs. Both programs are very competative to get.

I'm not sure about other postbacs, but read the fine print on linkages. Here at Mills it is only applicable for students on a two year postbac in which if they maintain a certain GPA, they can apply and interview at Tulane and College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific in their first year. If they do well and interview well, they can be offered a conditional acceptance based on maintaining a certain GPA and receiving a certain MCAT.

So many "linkages" are just ways to cut out the glide year, not preferential chances for acceptance.

 

[relentless11]

I'm not sure about other postbacs, but read the fine print on linkages.

There's always fine print😉 Thanks for the info. Yea I never looked into the program since I've set up camp at UCD. However there are times when a little more of a guarantee would anyone feel better, even if it was a conditional acceptance. Hahaha. Now if only there was a linkage to a UC😉

 

[TiggidyTooth]

EVMS offers a 75% acceptance rate into their medical school with no glide year. Kick butt in medical school classes and youre as good as in.

Tooth

 

[heymisslady]

So my girlfriend has wanted to go into pediatric neurology forever (or at least the last two years); however, her stats aren't stellar. In fact, I doubt she could get into a DO school with what she's sporting right now.

I remember reading, perhaps here or elsewhere, about one-year programs for graduated students during which you took some science classes, prepped for the MCAT, and if you did passably well in the classes and on the MCAT, you were guaranteed a seat in an associated medical school. However, I can't, for the life of me, remember any of these programs, since I just tossed them from my memory after an acceptance came in. If you all know of any of these, if you could post them up, perhaps someone else would find use in them, too. Thanks, y'all!

Wayne State has a 1 yr post-bacc program with a guaranteed seat once you complete the course. It's open to all races but you have to :
1. be the first in your family to go to college (parents cannot have a degree)
2. live in michigan
3. come from a disadvantaged background

I hope this helps 🙂

 

[Tyler Derden]

Wake's program is NOT designated for URMs only.

Ummm well the admissions rep I spoke with told me otherwise... I started asking her questions about it, and she responded that the program was for a specific demographic (I didn't catch on to why she was being cryptic)... After some more strange responses to my questions she finally directly told me I had no chance of being accepted as a Caucasian male because that would be defeating the purpose of the program. I felt kind of slighted, but naive that I didn't catch on either. 😳