What to do after grad. info on Post-bacc

[dvdrv31]

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hi, does anyone have any recommendations on good post-bacc programs that are about 1 year in length? also, i am looking for the ones that ALLOW you to enroll even though you have taken some pre-med classes in undergraduate and have applied to medical school before. thanks a lot!

 

[nitemagi]

I went to Mills College in Oakland, Ca. You have to apply, but it was a reasonably decent program, depending on which courses it is you have left to take.

 

[skelly99]

I am currently enrolled in the Harvard post-bac health careers program. It's relatively cheap (compared to other programs I was accepted to that cost $20K +) and all the classes are taught by Harvard profs. When I met with the dean of my alma mater's med school, he said that it is a well-respected program. Overall, I'm pretty happy so far...

Check out the website under the extension school at www.harvard.edu.

Cheers.

 

[drdrtoledo]

Skelly,
are you retaking courses you already took or are you doing their diploma program?

 

[bujji13]

DrDrToledo,

You might also want to look into the Johns Hopkins Post-Bacc premed program. It's a new program, but I know a few students in it who seem to really like it. The program takes 1 full calendar year, and anyone can apply for it as long as they have a Bachelor's. It's fairly rigidly structured, but you do get to take a few medical humanities courses as well.

 

[drdrtoledo]

Hi Bujji,
I think the original poster is looking for schools that will accept students that ALREADY applied to med school and that has already taken the required courses. John Hopkins won't... Harvard will but you are not in the "diploma program"... which most of the students aren't. 🙂

 

[drdrtoledo]

By the way, I don't know if you have the complete list. You can find all of them at http://www.aamc.org/students/considering/postbac.htm

 

[Wuracio]

Hey skelly99,
What are some of the requirements for the Harvard extension school? I went to the web site but it doesn't really go into details about it. I read something about taking a placement test. Did you do that or did you just apply? I am deciding where I should go to do my post bacc. I got my BS 2 years ago and I would like to go back to finish up my pre med courses. Any suggestions?

Originally posted by skelly99:
•I am currently enrolled in the Harvard post-bac health careers program. It's relatively cheap (compared to other programs I was accepted to that cost $20K +) and all the classes are taught by Harvard profs. When I met with the dean of my alma mater's med school, he said that it is a well-respected program. Overall, I'm pretty happy so far...

Check out the website under the extension school at www.harvard.edu.

Cheers.•

 

[E'01]

Heya folks. I did the Harvard Extension program also. Like Skelly said, it's extremely affordable and I thought the student body and the professors were very supportive and positive.

 

[audeo]

I am currently at Penn's postbac program. They have two divisions of prehealth programs. One is literally postbac prehealth program tailored to those who have not taken premed courses. The second one is termed Special Sciences Program, the one I am in. The tuition is about $1,000 per course. You can also take day school courses with regular undergrads. It is more expensive, $3,000-Penn is ridiculously expensive school-, but often easier than equivalent postbac CGS course since you are competing with little college kids. These postbac students work like dogs. I took bio 101 and ENGL 101 with freshman, and it was a joke. Among postbac courses, there are really easy ones with generous grades and really hard ones. If you like challenge, you can take harder courses, and if u wanna just boost up your GPA, u can take easier ones. The class size is usually not very large, and the professors get to know your names and faces- a plus when you ask for LOR. Since these professors are often the ones who teach for the Penn med school as well, it is quite helpful. By the way, you have to get at least two LORs from Penn faculty in order to get premed committee letter. Both of my letters come from professors of medicine. Anyway, it's a cool program and very supportive. The advisor is very accessible. In short, I am very satisfied with the program here at Penn.

 

[audeo]

Ah about affordability, if you work full-time at a lab at Penn, the tuition for two classes per semester is free. The average salary seems around $16000-18000 excluding tax. I didn't know that you had to pay so much tax-_-.

 

[drdrtoledo]

audeo,
If you don't mind me asking... Did you take you premed courses previously and not do so well? The U penn page makes it sound like you weren't allowed to have taken those courses. They also want you to have a B average in undergrad. Doesn't that defeat the purpose of why you are retaking those courses? Just trying to make sure who is really eligible for these things.