<p>I heard thier are a few colleges in the US that offer 6 year MD programs for high school graduates, any one has some names?</p>
<p><a href="http://services.aamc.org/currdir/section3/degree2.cfm?data=yes&program=bsmd%5B/url%5D">http://services.aamc.org/currdir/section3/degree2.cfm?data=yes&program=bsmd</a>
That site links to the medical school affilitated with the program. You'll have to do a little searching to find the application information, on the undergraduate college site. Not all of these are 6 year programs; most are 7 or 8 year programs.</p>
<p>I am aware of the 8 year program, they are fairly common, 7 year programs are also well known. Even if you don't get into a specialized program you can take a 3 year undergraduate pre-med course and then apply to a four year medical school. Which comes up to be 7 years, but I have heard that some college/universities offer 6 year accelarated courses for high school graduates. I have also heard that Stony Brook is one of them, if anyone knows more please add to the list.</p>
<p>i believe stony brook is an 8 year program</p>
<p>penn state has a 6 year one</p>
<p>Thanks for the heads up, any other university or that's it</p>
<p>University of Missouri Kansas City is also 6 year</p>
<p>brown's plme is 8 years, northwestern's hpme is 7, george washington is 8</p>
<p>Has the University of Miami gotten rid of their 6 year option? I know they used to have it, but I'm not sure if they switched to a 7 year.</p>
<p>texas tech i think has a 6 year program</p>
<p>you should not apply to schools simply because they are 6-yr places</p>
<p>figure out what you want from a school</p>
<p>there are many disadvantages to going to an acceleratedor combined program...it's no lofty decision</p>
<p>George Washington Univ has a 7yr program.</p>
<p>I think Rice has some affiliation with Baylor College and have an accelerated med program as well...not 100% sure tho.</p>
<p>washu 5 years?
thats what the rep said at college fair</p>
<p>there's no way a medical school education in the US can be cut to 5 years.</p>
<p>I'm not applying to many 6 years just for the fact that I want to ENJOY college, not race through it.</p>
<p>however, PSU, stony brook, UMKC, I believe U of Miami, Umm.. Case Western and NEUCOM? the two of those might be 6-year. the first 4 are definitel 6-year.</p>
<p>Anybody have any details about the applicant pool(How competitive are their SAT/ACT scores and High school ranks, general stats) at UMKC Med Program?</p>
<p>for OOS....UMKC's applicant pool is EXTREMELY competitive. High Ranks, stats, scores. Excellent ecs, leadership, essays, recs, etc.</p>
<p>In 2001 when I was accepted to UMKC (though, thankfully, I didn't attend) I had a 34 ACT, Top 8% of my class (34/434), weighted GPA of about ~ 4.35ish, unweighted 3.8ish, and great letters of rec. I know I interview well. EC's were okay. I'm not sure my OOS status b/c I was from the Kansas side of Kansas City, and at the time both my parents worked in Missouri so they had to pay MO income tax.</p>
<p>I'd imagine that it has only gotten more competitive as the years have gone on. </p>
<p>Of course I'd NEVER, EVER recommend a 6 year program to anyone, but that's just my personal opinion.</p>
<p>Because they take top students and put them at 2nd tier schools? They limit your potential? They don't let you have a "real" college experience?</p>
<p>I think the main thing is the last comment. 6-year programs dont allow for college to actually be experienced. It's more like, hey hurry up and finish college so we can get you out of here kind of stuff.</p>
<p>I'm not going to a 6-year, that's all I know.</p>
<p>Problems I have with 6 year programs certainly include what you've listed. College experience is definitely a missing component and a big deficiency in my book (of course I wish I would have taken the 5 year plan for undergrad rather than graduate in 4 year so maybe I'm not a "good example"). Other issues:</p>
<p>Maturity - of course all HS seniors think they're extremely mature, but trust me, freshman year of college is a huge growing expeirence. And while the remaining years aren't as big of jumps, the 2 years make a big difference. The other thing is that the typical med school class is made of individuals in a very broad age range. The classes above and below mine each have a student in their late 40's or early 50's. Mine certainly has many individuals who are in their 30's. That makes for a more appropriate level of professionalism and maturity from day one. </p>
<p>Student burnout - the attrition rate for pre-med students at any college (even top tier universities) is high. While these accelerated programs assuredly have ways to trying to limit this potential, no method is fool proof. What happens if you realize half way through organic that it's really not what you wanted to do? I know that UMKC includes several courses in the first year which would normally be covered in the first year of medical school - things that won't transfer for credit anywhere. Given the cost and intensity that's a lot of time and money wasted.</p>
<p>Lack of any tangible benefit for getting out in 6 - I've never seen anyone give a good reason as to why getting out in 6 instead of 8 is that important. And particularly not when doing a full "cost-benefit" analysis. Are you really going to look back at retirement and say "Gee I wish I would have been in practice for 38 years rather than 36..." I doubt it.</p>
<p>There are others but those are the main ones...</p>
<p>Going off that last comment....</p>
<p>You'll never be in your youth again...why speed up the "best years" of your life.</p>