Tracking matriculation requirements question

[pinky94]

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Hey SDN,

How do medical schools track how/whether or not their accepted students fulfill course requirements prior to the actual matriculation? For example, if a school requires 1 year of General Chemistry, 1 year of Organic Chemistry, etc., and they accept a student in college, when that student graduates from their undergraduate program, they will have to submit a final official transcript(s) of course grades. But what if they have yet to complete, for instance, 1 semester of the General Chemistry requirement? Does the medical school actually follow up/track the student prior to the first day of the semester/start of medical school classes?

 

[GrapesofRath]

This kind of verification happens for more situations than you probably think. What do you think happens to people who apply to medical school while in college and who then send verification of graduation and that their grades haven't completely fallen off a cliff or they haven't committed an IA's in the past year since applying.

 

[pinky94]

Thanks for the input. @gonnif for the nontrad student you had who was a journalism major and had much intensive writing, I understand that the school would not accept those in lieu of a formal English course. but @gonnif did the school notify the student (aka, did they let her know) that she was going to have to take freshman comp, and if so, do you know when the school notified the student? For example, do you think a school would let their accepted student know (and who has in turn accepted an offer of admission at that school) at least before the day the medical school begins, so just in case, the student actually has time to meet that pre-requisite if it's something ambiguous, like in the case of the journalism major's situation with having had intensive writing, but needing freshman comp nonetheless?