Rosalind Franklin BMS : from a current student

[Habeed]

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I'm a Rosalind Franklin BMS student, and I know this is one of the best programs out there. BMS has a very high success rate for accepting students who score reasonably well into the medical school. Personally, now that I am 2/3 of the way through, I think the program is a cakewalk.

You are graded on the exact same curve as the medical students. In classes, 15-25% of the medical students receive an A. You just have to do as well as those students with a FAR lighter workload, and ultimately end up with ~3.6 GPA or higher. The success rate for the program has been about 50% for the past two years for students accepted right into RFUMS. (100% for students who earn a 3.6 GPA or higher)

I'm willing to answer any questions you might have about BMS now that I no longer am concerned about how I do here.

 

[Squiggy]

Dude congrats on getting accepted. 5 years going at it... just wow. How long were you an army medic? What percent of the courseload do you take in comparison with the med students?

 

[Habeed]

Roughly 3/5. And, crucially, on exam weeks you have maybe two exams per week, while the med students can have as many as 5. (some are for filler classes, but they still have to be prepared for)

Also, you don't have to spend hours in the gross anatomy lab. Sure, I felt 'left out' I didn't get to touch cadavars, but it is a huge time-sink for the med students.

"Army medic" cost me about a year. 6 months for the training, about a semester lost due to having to take ROTC and other extra classes. So, the whole process could have been done in 4 years...minus 1 for a year I lost due to a severe injury... In principle, I could have gotten to this point in 3 years from when I started. I started 2-3 years from graduating undergrad.

It wasn't as bad as some had it : I didn't have the heartbreaking experience of multiple admissions cycles. This was my very first try at applying. Also, my MCAT was scored on the first try as well. I crammed for the MCAT with about 3 weeks spent studying, and evidently got very lucky.