smp?

[Tiger18]

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hi everyone,

I'm new to the forums, I've just been lurking around here reading all the useful informations everyone has to give.

I'm sorry for my ignorance, but i would like to know what smp stood for? As of right now, I'm a third year in college as a bio major, however with my current gpa I know for a fact I'll be applying as a non-trad to med school. I was planning on taking post bac classes after I graduate and try to improve my application. (which isn't anything right now)

thanks for the help!

-T

 

[cheezer]

special masters program. go to the postbac forum and read the stickies for more info

 

[Nasem]

why do you claim to be a non-trad major ?
I always thought that being a biology major makes you the good'ol traditional pre medical student (mostly biology, chemistry, biochem, etc). Non-traditional folks are people who went on trying a different life stayles because they never thought they wanted to be in the health care profession (like Computer sciences, Engineers, Bussiness majors, etc etc) and after working in thier specific industry for a while, realized that they wanted to go back to school and become doctors (or dentists etc etc)

SMP stands for Special Masters Program, some universities call them "masters in Biomedical sciences" or "Masters in Medical Sciences"..... So don't be confused with the "SMP" name, a lot of universities offer this program and some of them don't even call it "SMP". When you read the discription of those SMP programs, thier major emphasis is for strengthening a pre-medical student's application since your going to take the same classes medical students take.

HOWEVER, my opinion is...a nice performance in an SMP is really nice but it doesn't shadow over a terrible performance in undergrad years (terrible being less than 3.0 overall GPA & science GPA)..... I think the SMP option should only be explored AFTER the student has completed AT LEAST 1 to 2.5 years of post-bacc (depending on how damange thier undergrad GPA is)

Good luck