I would also like to thank @dblazer for giving valuable information in this forum. For all the parents giving advice, it would be more valuable to current and future applicant and family, if the advisor has substantiial background/authority in this extremely difficult process of BS/MD application. All students are highly achieved. Since this application process is new to some, I hope the advise given here without much experience/actual facts are not going to affect their bright future negatively.
When a student has guaranteed BS/MD ( not EAP), only the applicant and his family will live with the outcome, if they give up the seat, and not make it to to Medical school with Traditional path. COA with any program is individual decision. No one in this forum has authority to say if the program is worth the cost or not, unless directly asked due to someone’s financial situation.
Just a clarification in regards to Drexel BS/MD, the undergrad college does give 22K -25 K/year scholarship to most of the students in the program. As someone in this forum mentioned earlier, even with new change, with the program being labelled EAP, there is no second interview to matriculate to Medschool and no application again. Something to think about.