Medical Should I do this program at my school?

[MusicDOc124]

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Okay so I go to a community college (because I’m broke and it’s cheaper) and my plan was to go there for 2 years, then go to university to complete my bachelors, and then go to medical school.

But at my school there’s a program where you can take all of your pre requisites in the 2 years and then transfer to this medical school they’re partnered with. I’m trying to decide if I should do that, and here are my perceived pros and cons :

PROS - will take me 6 years instead of 8, this school is in my state so it’s cheaper then going to an out of state med school, I’ve heard that people have been able to get match to a good residency as long as they do well in their step 1

CONS - this will severely limit my options because other medical schools don’t have this program so I have to get accepted or else, the stats for this school are low, the school isn’t well known

The med school is called neomed (northeast Ohio medical)

Advice?

I'm familiar with the school. I believe you may have incorrect information. The school requires a bachelors degree, but offers a pathway that leads to an acceptance through early assurance after 2 years of college. This does not mean you skip out on 2 years of college, but you simply have an acceptance very early on pending you continue to do well and meet their GPA and MCAT requirements for matriculation, which includes a bachelors degree which usually takes the full 4 years. Per their website, they're not affiliated with a community college, but rather have affiliations with Baldwin-Wallace, Bowling Green, Cleveland State, Hiram, Kent State, U of Akron, and Youngstown State.

Please provide a link to what you're reading/seeing.

 

[MusicDOc124]

Oh I must have misunderstood. I don’t have a link because this is what a faculty person at my school told me.

So what they told you is incorrect then. If you attend one of the schools listed above (directly from their website), you can apply for early assurance which is when you complete 2 years of college and get an early acceptance. The traditional way is applying after your 3rd year to everywhere you want to go or after you graduate to everywhere you want to go.

In either care, you are still required to complete your degree whether that takes you 2, 4, or 6 years, etc. Bachelors is required.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Yes, it seems like your information might be incorrect if coming from a faculty member. Connect with the prehealth advisor at your school for proper information. Usually those early admission tracks do not apply to you if you already started coursework at a community college. I did have a program I used to be involved with that accepted you after you matriculated as a four-year college students but transfers from CC's were not eligible.

 

[MusicDOc124]

Yes, it seems like your information might be incorrect if coming from a faculty member. Connect with the prehealth advisor at your school for proper information. Usually those early admission tracks do not apply to you if you already started coursework at a community college. I did have a program I used to be involved with that accepted you after you matriculated as a four-year college students but transfers from CC's were not eligible.

to tie into this as well, at my undergrad transfers were eligible, however you had to complete two years at the institution and thus in many cases of transfers that’s the exact amount of time until they graduate and therefore would be applying regularly anyway.

Definitely see if going to a four-year university sooner rather than later may be more beneficial if it’s the program you intend to use