<p>I was talking to my dad's friend who is a professor at a local college. My dad informed him that I got a free ride to Seton Hall (college in NJ) with my FASFA and scholarships. He called me, and excplained to me that getting into a Med school will be very tough. He told me to look into a 7 year program MD program. However, I really need more information about these 7 year programs..</p>
<p>Some information about me:</p>
<p>I really messed up in the beginning of high school, up to Jr year actually. My Current (overall) GPA is a 3.3, but my current 12th grade GPA is near a 3.7. This year I decided to wake up and start studying and I'm glad that I'm getting mostly A's (2 B's in English and Physics). I'm currently getting A's in AP Bio, Psychology, and Advance Math..
I got a 1790 on my SAT, with a 590 in Math and 540 in Reading. On the ACT's I got a 26. </p>
<p>I applied to Stony Brook, and I got accepted. I also see that they offer a 7 year program(SOH?), but I don't think I have the required GPA to go with that program..
I got accepted into Seton Hall with a free ride (with my FASFA), but they don't have such a program. I just finished applying to Rutgers, and I'm hoping I can get in, but I'm not sure how I would go about entering their joint program with UMDNJ.</p>
<p>I would really appreciate it if someone would help me out, and suggest some good colleges or programs. (Just a side thought, I'm thinking of becoming a Radiologist if all goes well, I wrote a term paper about that my Jr. Year and I liked what I saw)</p>
<p>Another side note: I'm sorry to say, I don't really care about "living life" as I read in one thread about the 4vs7 year college options. I wouldn't mind have no non-med classes, or losing a year of my college life.</p>
<p>Thanks, I was reading up on some programs, and I realized that. I might have a chance for the Rutgers program, but I don’t know the details of it…</p>
<p>What smaller, less competitive schools would you recommend for me?..</p>
<p>If not, I’ll be forced to go with the traditional 4+4 route… I’m 99% sure I’m going Medical. I’m also very good with programing, scripting, and the such, but that’s solely a hobby, I can’t see myself sitting in an office working on a program every day…</p>
<p>That will be my Plan B, if that 1% of me decides that Yes, I’ll major in Computer Science, then I’ll do that… (Or if I don’t get into any Med Schools after my MCATs)</p>
<p>Wayne State is relatively less competitive, but if you’re going to college next year it might be getting too late to apply to some of these colleges/combined programs. Even in the accelerated programs you will have general “non-medical” classes like math, english, etc., and attend regular college classes.</p>
<p>I have a few more questions, the most important being:</p>
<p>Will I be able to transfer into a Acclerated program if I have, for-example, a 3.8+ GPA (for Stony Brook’s 7 year program) while I attend that school?
Lets say I go to Stony Brook, and I get a 4.0 in the first year, can I take the SAT’s again, and get a 1350+ math/reading and be able to enter the 7 year course at Stony Brook?</p>
<p>I don’t really think that’s a possibility, but there are some schools that place students into specific med schools they have programs with during undergrad. However, the ones I am familiar are really limited as to how many are put into the program and there has to be something about you that gives them a reason to put you in the program. For example, the one at my college says “preference is given to low-income and first generation college students who also wish to practice in underserved areas such as inner-cities”. Unless your school has one of these types of early assurance programs and you’re a realistic candidate for it, you’ll most likely have to just go the route most other pre-meds go and attent college as a normal student for four years.</p>