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which program would you chose..
Tufts vs. Rosalind Franklin BMS
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the tufts' BMS, not med....
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I would personally choose Tufts over Rosalind Franklin. I believe tufts program is more prepared for students who are gonna apply to med school. RFU's program is for all pre-health students.
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will it be easier to get into rfu med through bms or to get into tufts through their mbs program? rfu guarantees everyone an interview but tufts only gives interviews to the top 25%. how well will someone have to perform in these programs to get into their med schools?
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also remember, the interview is for the following cycle. Thus, if you do the BMS program in the Fall of 2007, your interview will be for the class of Fall 2009.
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I didn't know RFU postponed the interview a year like that. I thought all SMPs encouraged participants to apply the year of the program. I don't remember reading that anywhere, so if you don't mind, where did you hear that? I'm in for the fall at RFU and am really hoping you meant Tufts.
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i think the only thing that is holding me back from Tufts is the fact that they don't want students to apply this year... (and only top 25% gets interview)
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Let me preface this by saying that I am starting the Tufts MBS program this fall.....
So here is my thinking/opinion/observations about whether or not to apply this year for medical school...
If you have already applied to medical school and were not accepted then there was something in your application that did not impress the adcom, this could be have been MCAT, grades or volunteering, etc. If it was volunteering/MCAT and you have improved significantly in those areas then I would say go ahead and apply this year. But if you are in a post-bac/SMP to improve your grades then...
1. the primary application comes out very soon and you should get it in ASAP. We all know that the earlier you get it in the better chances you have. This means that you wouldn't have even started your SMP/post-bac program yet. Nothing significant would have changed on your primary application by the time you have to submit it. You could write in your personal statement that you are enrolled in a post-bac/SMP but without grades the adcom has no idea if you will be successful.
2. you won't have 1st semester grades until most of the secondary deadlines have passed. This means that you would have to send something in later with an updated transcript. Most people I know who have been successful in getting interviews had already been invited and had completed their interviews before your update would be sent in (early Jan.). I think this would put you at a disadvantage since the adcom would have to wait until they get the transcript to make a decision, probably pushing your interview back to late Feb/early March. It is more likely that you would interviewing for a waitlist spot at this point.
3. Most medical schools encourage a 2nd application but frown or even won't allow a 3rd application. So unless you are absolutely sure you will get in the 2nd time you may be shooting yourself in the foot. Say you do apply this year for your second time and you aren't successful but then you do awesome in your post-bac/SMP, what happens? The schools you can apply to a 3rd time are more limited and might not be the school you want to go to.
If you were to wait another year, you would have a full year's worth of post-bac/SMP grades and more time in a volunteer position. This would also give you more time to get meaningful recs from professors since they won't have to write one only knowing you for a few weeks.
I know you really want to go to med school (as do I) but waiting that extra year may make all the difference!
The only exception to this are schools that have conditional acceptances (like BU and Georgetown) that pretty much say if you do well you will get in. But even that is not a guarantee. I went to the BU open house and was told by the director that the % of students who get in to med school when they apply the same year as they do the SMP is only 5% but it jumps to 60% for those who wait that extra year. Just something to think about.
As for me, I am completely happy waiting that extra year if it means getting in and not having to deal with all the rejection all over again!
Good Luck!
So here is my thinking/opinion/observations about whether or not to apply this year for medical school...
If you have already applied to medical school and were not accepted then there was something in your application that did not impress the adcom, this could be have been MCAT, grades or volunteering, etc. If it was volunteering/MCAT and you have improved significantly in those areas then I would say go ahead and apply this year. But if you are in a post-bac/SMP to improve your grades then...
1. the primary application comes out very soon and you should get it in ASAP. We all know that the earlier you get it in the better chances you have. This means that you wouldn't have even started your SMP/post-bac program yet. Nothing significant would have changed on your primary application by the time you have to submit it. You could write in your personal statement that you are enrolled in a post-bac/SMP but without grades the adcom has no idea if you will be successful.
2. you won't have 1st semester grades until most of the secondary deadlines have passed. This means that you would have to send something in later with an updated transcript. Most people I know who have been successful in getting interviews had already been invited and had completed their interviews before your update would be sent in (early Jan.). I think this would put you at a disadvantage since the adcom would have to wait until they get the transcript to make a decision, probably pushing your interview back to late Feb/early March. It is more likely that you would interviewing for a waitlist spot at this point.
3. Most medical schools encourage a 2nd application but frown or even won't allow a 3rd application. So unless you are absolutely sure you will get in the 2nd time you may be shooting yourself in the foot. Say you do apply this year for your second time and you aren't successful but then you do awesome in your post-bac/SMP, what happens? The schools you can apply to a 3rd time are more limited and might not be the school you want to go to.
If you were to wait another year, you would have a full year's worth of post-bac/SMP grades and more time in a volunteer position. This would also give you more time to get meaningful recs from professors since they won't have to write one only knowing you for a few weeks.
I know you really want to go to med school (as do I) but waiting that extra year may make all the difference!
The only exception to this are schools that have conditional acceptances (like BU and Georgetown) that pretty much say if you do well you will get in. But even that is not a guarantee. I went to the BU open house and was told by the director that the % of students who get in to med school when they apply the same year as they do the SMP is only 5% but it jumps to 60% for those who wait that extra year. Just something to think about.
As for me, I am completely happy waiting that extra year if it means getting in and not having to deal with all the rejection all over again!
Good Luck!
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WannaBaDoc... you are WRONG.. I was at my MD interview for RFU and there were BMS students interviewing for the same admission year, and they left early so that they didn't miss their BMS class.
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how are classes at Rosalind Franklin?
