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I was accepted to Touro MS and chose Bluefield/VCOM instead. Touro only accepts 35 students from the program. VCOM wants as many at possible to get in and that was more than 60 in my class last year. There was virtually no competition among MABS students – we all worked together and helped one another. LECOM only guarantees an interview. On top of all this, VCOM is a better school than LECOM or Touro.
Thanks for the insight! I was definitely the most hesitant about Touro's program because of the curved grading scale.
I was accepted to LECOM MMS as well, but when I went to turn my deposit in, in person I spoke to someone from admissions and they stated that about 30/100 were accepted into their medical school program. Again it is just an interview you gain upon meeting the requirements, so it is no guarantee. I accepted my offer to VCOM MABs for 23-24 as the linkage seems to be very strong and many students in their program have said good things about it on this forum (although it is dependent person to person of course).
I turned down touro for vcom because touro goes by a curve and only accepts the top 30% of the class whereas VCOM accepts everyone who meets the benchmarks. Also I think VCOM has better connections in terms of matching etc than LECOM but i'm not 100% sure about that.
I was going through matches and residencies for these three programs. One of the big factors in geography was that LECOM is relatively midwest, which is where I would like to stay, but it ultimately doesn't make a huge difference to me.
Congrats !!!
Just got accepted! Took me around 2 months.
Congratulations! I just submitted my application a few days ago.
I received one yesterday as well! Good luck to you
Thanks! Good luck to you as well.
You can still apply to any other med schools. In fact, they encourage it. the dean also can write you a letter for other schools too if you'd like.
Really? Even at the start of the program? Students still enjoy having a conditional seat at VCOM right?
Yes, you can apply when applications open up in June AND join the program. It's a linkage. So you need to meet the MCAT and GPA PLUS a positive interview evaluation to get your acceptance. You need to treat this program as a year-long interview and always be professional and not complain too much. Stay away from drama. Complaining about exams or how hard the test was is a great way to lose your positive evaluation. Also, things like don't show up late to class because professors notice this.
Do you need to resubmit all the letters of rec or they use the ones you submitted to apply to MABS?
You have to resubmit that through AACOMAS again. There's no way to transfer a letter from the MABS application to AACOMAS.
The dress code is business casual every day. You need to follow the dress code if you want to get a positive evaluation. they said they would notice if you don't follow the dress code and will put that in your evaluation, which is NOT good if you want to get accepted to VCOM
Join the fb group https://m.facebook.com/groups/892033015280791/?ref=share&mibextid=S66gvF and there will be a link to the GroupMe 🙂
Just postbac cas
They do not have interviews
Do you have the groupme link by chance?
Did you get a student ID number? I got the acceptance like 2 weeks ago but they never sent me a student ID, so I can't really do anything. I've reached out a few times with no reply.
The school is dealing with a cybersecurity attack so that would explain why
I’m having the same issue. Trying to get my financial aid done is like pulling teeth.
What happened?
I ended up getting my ID number 6 days after the acceptance email. They didn't make it clear that it was my student ID though. The email basically just said "for future reference when filling out financial aid documents or other forms use this number".
They have a large library of MCAT books in the classroom. There was a 5 week Christmas break and if you follow Dr. Hill’s advise, you will do well. I had a 14 point jump to 506 on the January MCAT!
what was Dr, Hills advise
Study 50 hours per week. Do practice questions vs reading. Focus hard on what you do not know vs what you already know. Schaum's outline books were amazing for general chem, organic chem and biochem for the MCAT. He'll give a seminar on this.
