Premed advisors paid in proportion to number of premeds accepted to med school?

[giraffesuptop]

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I've heard anecdotally that premed advisors' pay is linked to the percent of premeds that get accepted to med school.

Is this true? Any sources? Just curious.

 

[deleted407021]

They'd be starving to death...

 

[Pacna]

I mean it would be a good way to get quality advisers, but it could also make them very hostile towards anybody they thought wasn't a strong candidate.

Most universities are far too progressive to have this sort of pay structure.

 

[Goro]

They're faculty. Their job is to teach, and advising is part of the responsibility of being a faculty member.

Just to make sure, you heard wrong.

I've heard anecdotally that premed advisors' pay is linked to the percent of premeds that get accepted to med school.

Is this true? Any sources? Just curious.

 

[ski89]

They're faculty. Their job is to teach, and advising is part of the responsibility of being a faculty member.

Just to make sure, you heard wrong.

This is true, however, at my UG there were pre professional advisors that did nothing other than advising.


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[hoihaie]

They're faculty. Their job is to teach, and advising is part of the responsibility of being a faculty member.

Just to make sure, you heard wrong.

career counselors at my school are sadly not faculties... they're full time advising. For med school related advising, they are horrible... only give generic advices.

 

[Goro]

Based upon what some people report here, those advisors are guilty of malpractice!

Despite the trend toward hyperneuroses, SDN is a great advising source.

career counselors at my school are sadly not faculties... they're full time advising. For med school related advising, they are horrible... only give generic advices.

 

[itsthat1guy]

They're faculty. Their job is to teach, and advising is part of the responsibility of being a faculty member.

Just to make sure, you heard wrong.

None of the pre-professional advisers at my school are faculty

 

[senzen]

Some of the pre-professional advisors are faculty and some aren't, I think.

They can be so discouraging at times and have no idea what they are talking about. I'm not particularly fond of them. But I remain respectful since they are going to be writing my committee letter, apparently.

 

[Psai]

sending students to become doctors isn't the same as showing people houses

 

[LizzyM]

I have not heard this. It would not be good for pre-meds or adcoms. The objective of a pre-med advisor would be short term success rather than long-term relationships with adcoms. The LORs would be so heavy with bullsh-t that after a few years, one would come to distrust letters from advisor Y at school X. The proportion of students admitted from school X would decline and the advisor would go off to find another job. The long term relationships that adcoms form, sometime only by mail but sometimes through meet & greet opportunities sponsored by the med school for pre-med advisors of one's feeder schools would be no more as advisors would churn in and out of schools or in and out of the business.