Rutgers medical schools

[AmirTheDoc]

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Does Rutgers Medical Schools reserve a # of spots for Rutgers undergrad students? I have heard that other schools do this.

 

[KnightDoc]

Does Rutgers Medical Schools reserve a # of spots for Rutgers undergrad students? I have heard that other schools do this.

Reserve? Who did you hear does this? Other than BS/MD programs (and others like it) there is no such thing!

That said, yeah, every med school that has an associated UG tends to receive a disproportionate amount of applications from the UG. Many of the applicants have had exposure to the med school through research opportunities, and they consequently tend to be over represented in the matriculating class. But "reserve"? Please name some examples.

 

[Tejan]

I wouldn't use the term "reserve" but like KnightDoc stated every undergrad especially public ones like Rutgers see a lot of their UG students apply/matriculate to their medical school.

Here's the Rutgers New Brunswick Med School Applicants Stats from 2019

Hope this helps!

 

[PigsHaveWings]

87 matriculants from their own school, that is pretty high.

 

[KnightDoc]

87 matriculants from their own school, that is pretty high.

It sure is! The question is, how many are occupying "reserved" seats outside of some sort of a linkage program? The answer is going to be "none." That number is split between two separate schools, and the odds are very high that those two schools were numbers 1 and 2 in terms of the number of applicants coming from from Rutgers UG.

Even so, yeah, it's a very high number, representing a full 35% of all of their students going to medical school. Strip out the DO schools, and it's a ridiculously high 52%!!!!! Many Rutgers UG premeds likely had extensive exposure to those schools through research and other ECs, so that partially explains why the number is so high, but, honestly, nothing explains why 52% of all matriculating MDs at a large flagship state institution are staying at the two home schools.

Maybe I'm wrong and the two Rutgers med schools reserve a quarter of their classes for Rutgers UGs. Does anyone have any evidence to support that? If not, then what else is there to say? Rutgers's med schools REALLY like its pre-meds! (Or maybe, feel an obligation to provide an opportunity for them?)

The number is actually so high that it really can only be explained by some rather large linkage programs, and both of these schools do indeed have them. (I'm not sure how big they are, but nothing else can really account for so many Rutgers UGs ending up at those two schools when there are over 150 to choose from.)

 

[Blueprint Med School]

Does Rutgers Medical Schools reserve a # of spots for Rutgers undergrad students? I have heard that other schools do this.

Jersey is a bubble and Rutgers is the largest education system in the Garden State. Every single undergrad premed is going to apply there and as a state school receiving government funding, they are obligated to take a large percentage of in staters. It all kinda fits snugly when you consider the conditions of the ecosystem.

Go RU!

David D, MD - USMLE and MCAT Tutor
Med School Tutors

 

[KnightDoc]

Jersey is a bubble and Rutgers is the largest education system in the Garden State. Every single undergrad premed is going to apply there and as a state school receiving government funding, they are obligated to take a large percentage of in staters. It all kinda fits snugly when you consider the conditions of the ecosystem.

Go RU!

David D, MD - USMLE and MCAT Tutor
Med School Tutors

Not really. NJ sends students all over the country for UG who are still NJ residents when it comes to applying to med school. This doesn't come close to explaining how 52% of Rutgers UGs who matriculate in a MD school end up at one of the two Rutgers schools, filling a full quarter of their classes. I am very sure there are way more than 87 NJ residents who attend UG out of state who have better everything than many of the 87 from Rutgers, and who are rejected by those schools every year.

I will bet you anything the answer lies in linkage programs, and not in the fact that these are the highest qualified NJ residents for those seats, and the only place to find highly qualified NJ residents who want to attend a state MD program is at Rutgers NB.

 

[deleted987519]

Not really. NJ sends students all over the country for UG who are still NJ residents when it comes to applying to med school. This doesn't come close to explaining how 52% of Rutgers UGs who matriculate in a MD school end up at one of the two Rutgers schools, filling a full quarter of their classes. I am very sure there are way more than 87 NJ residents who attend UG out of state who have better everything than many of the 87 from Rutgers, and who are rejected by those schools every year.

I will bet you anything the answer lies in linkage programs, and not in the fact that these are the highest qualified NJ residents for those seats, and the only place to find highly qualified NJ residents who want to attend a state MD program is at Rutgers NB.

you are exhausting

 

[KnightDoc]

you are exhausting

Sorry! 🙂 But, am I wrong?

 

[EdgeTrimmer]

Rutgers also has BA/MD program (BA/MD Program (NJMS-NWK) ) and that could be one reason it shows high number of their UGs matriculating like Brown. I hope this phrase is "There's more incest at Brown than in an Arkansas trailer park" for Rutgers also.

 

[KnightDoc]

Rutgers also has BA/MD program (BA/MD Program (NJMS-NWK) ) and that could be one reason it shows high number of their UGs matriculating like Brown. I hope this phrase is "There's more incest at Brown than in an Arkansas trailer park" for Rutgers also.

But their program isn't nearly as large as Brown's, and the program you are linking is from Newark, not New Brunswick. I don't have first hand knowledge, but I'm pretty sure is that the Rutgers UGs are being steered into the post grad linkage programs, and that's what accounts for the crazy numbers.