<p>Hi, Did anyone know Tulane have 8 year med program ?</p>
<p>Yeah it’s called the creative premedical scholars program. Basically you have to major in a liberal arts field and then you apply to the program at the end of your sophomore year. If you get in you gain automatic acceptance to the med school.</p>
<p>Creative scholars is a different thing altogether, Taculator.</p>
<p>We have an accelerated med program open to honors kids; you apply for it at the end of your fall semester freshman year, tho.</p>
<p>Some universities (Brown, for example) have a deal where you are already accepted into med school at the same time you are accepted as a freshman. Obviously one has to meet and maintain various requirements, but if you do then that’s it, there are no other applications needed.</p>
<p>Neither of Tulane’s programs are like that. TAP-TP, to which smchls refers, is something that freshmen apply to during the first semester after they start at Tulane, get an answer during the second semester, and then start med school a year after their sophomore year is completed, with the interim year being used for community service in Louisiana. You then start courses at the downtown med school, said courses being used to also complete the undergrad degree. All told, the program encompasses 7 years.</p>
<p>The Creative Scholars Program is as Taculator described, and is the normal 4 + 4 years. Somewhat exceptional is that you don’t have to take the MCAT. With TAP-TP, you still take the MCAT. To be clear, with the CSP while you cannot major in a science, you do have to take the normal pre-med course circuit of freshman chem, organic chem, biology with lab, I think physics, and probably at least a semester of calculus. One can check on the details.</p>
<p>Yeah the reason I answered with creative premedical scholars was because he said 8 year program.</p>
<p>One question I have about this is the 7 year accelerated program is based on high school grades correct? While I think the Creative Premedical Scholars Program is more based on your freshmen and sophomore year grades. Just wanted to clarify if this is true</p>
<p>That is essentially true, which is why only the top students from the Honors Program are even considered for it. But your first semester grades at Tulane are also taken into account, which is one reason they do it this way rather than accepting you into the program straight out of high school like the Brown, et. al. programs. I can only guess they want to see how a student adapts to life away from home first, which to me makes a lot of sense.</p>