University of Marlyand: Science in the Evening

[Oh2051]

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For those who have experience in the Science in the Evening program:

The school collects no stats on the acceptance rates of the their students to professional schools . . . so what's the word on the street?

Are students primarily preparing for med school, or for a variety of careers in health care (dental, pharmacy, nursing . . .)?

What is the average size of a class?

Would you recommend this program?

 

[carbofation]

Bump!!!

I, too, will be taking some courses next month at the UMD Science in the Evening program and am curious to see what the consensus is about this program? People who have taken it in the past or are currently enrolled, how do you like it? Is it helpful at all? How are the faculty? Courses?

Any help would be appreciated.🙂

 

[Ishiguro]

I am applying to Maryland's Science in the Evening as a backup to formal postbacs. If I go through Maryland, I think I might start in the spring, with the Chemistry sequence and some biology, then go into O Chem and Physics during the summer... Anyway, there really is very little information about the program's success anywhere. I understand that it's a general program that's intended for working adults going into all sorts of medical fields.

For background, I have about a 3.8 undergrad GPA, and graduated from a liberal arts school in 2004 with just about no science or math (just some psychology and Calculus). I'm a Maryland resident, so I think I have a good shot at getting in. I would probably combine coursework with part-time work for an AIDS organization or clinic, at least at the beginning. I would love love love to go to University of Maryland medicine down the road. Obviously the MCAT will play a huge role, but does anyone have thoughts on how well this program prepares people to attend MD programs? And is it possible to get all the pre-med courses done in a spring, summer, fall, spring and still have time to work and (later on) research?

I'll e-mail the prog, too, and will post what I hear.

Thanks for any input!

 

[Bibbed]

The Science in the Evening program isn't very formal at all. As far as I know it's just a way to take undergraduate sciences classes at night if you have a job.

I took all of my sciences during undergrad at Maryland, but I did take on SitE course last spring while working at NIH. The class was Drug Action and Design. I also have a friend that TAed for two SitE Orgo classes. From my limited experience it isn't difficult to do well.

As for statistics regarding acceptance rates to medical schools and what not, I'm pretty sure they don't exist. The program is so informal, people just come and go as they please, take whatever classes they want/need.

 

[Bibbed]

For those who have experience in the Science in the Evening program:

The school collects no stats on the acceptance rates of the their students to professional schools . . . so what's the word on the street?

Are students primarily preparing for med school, or for a variety of careers in health care (dental, pharmacy, nursing . . .)?

What is the average size of a class?

Would you recommend this program?

Like I said in my other post, no statistics and there's no real "word" to give you. The classes aren't difficult if you attend and study a minimal amount. In the class I mentioned above, I literally lost less than 1 point in the class. Final grade rounded up to 100%. So you should have a good GPA if you take all of the pre-reqs from SitE. Couple that with a good MCAT (30+) and good ECs, and you'll be fine.

Because so many of the people are already working, there are many people who drop out because they do bad in a certain class, and decide medicine isn't for them. This is why it's impossible to give you an idea of how people do in it.

I would say mostly pre-meds, but some dents and pharm. Some phd hopefuls too.

Class size ranges from 20-30. Maybe more for the basic sciences. I'll ask my friend b/c she TAed for one of them.

I recommend the program if you need the science pre-reqs for medical school. Again, not that hard, and they're well taught.

 

[JRo912]

http://www.prehealth.umd.edu/scienceintheevening

 

[EJS1979]

I don't know too much about the program, but I'm at Maryland School of Medicine now, and a number of my classmates took the Science in the Evening classes, and they were quite happy with the program and have been successful in med school so far.

Good luck!

 

[xunshyn]

I just confirmed my enrollment in to the Science in the Evening post bacc program. Anyone out there taking classes in Spring 2011? Is there a thread on here for this?

 

[OBEAHDOCTOR]

For this program does anyone know if DC Residents get instate tuition at UMD?

 

[gridguy]

For this program does anyone know if DC Residents get instate tuition at UMD?

Everyone receives in-state tuition.