What is prefereable- 7 year Boston Univ med program, or 7 year program with (Drew University to UMDNJ)----guaranteed seat to med school or a great Ugrad Ivy League education where you dont know your gpa in 4 years.
<p>i've heard that 7 yr programs are not that great. You really need the 4 full years of undergrad and med. I've also heard that its better to go to grad school somewhere different than undergrad, and my guidance counselor said that if you think you will be able to do well in school, you should go the traditional way.</p>
<p>Passing up guaranteed admission to med school is hard today, when even mid level med schools take less than 10% of applicants. If you want to practice medicine (as opposed to teach and research) school doesn't much matter. A top med school will gwt you more choice residencies and maybe a better shot at highly sought after specialties, but any decent med school will get you where you want to go. So a 7 year program sure is a safe way to go.</p>
<p>However, if you're in love with a college that doesn't have one, take your chances.</p>
<p>While I don't know the specifics of the BU or Drew program, I would point out that most of those combined BS/MD programs don't lock you in, meaning that once you get your bachelor's degree sometime in the middle of that combined program, you can apply to other med-schools as a normal premed, and if you get in, you get leave your program and go there. If you don't get in anywhere, you can simply continue with your combined program. Hence, the combined program is extremely valuable because it means it's a 'bird in the hand'. You get the assurance that as long as you stay eligible in the program, you are guaranteed admission to at least one med-school. </p>
<p>Contrast that with regular premeds who even if they come from an Ivy, often times get rejected from every med-school they apply to. Even of the Harvard premeds who apply to med-school, about 10% of them get rejected from every med-school they apply to. And that of course is only talking about those premeds who actually apply to med-school. Plenty of premeds don't even bother to apply, because they know that their grades and/or their MCAT scores aren't good enough. For example, if you got straight C's, you're probably not going to apply to med-school, because you know you're not going to get in.</p>
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