I’ve been thinking about applying to Rochester’s REMS program and GWU 7 year program. Does anybody know what tier those would be? I’ve seen people mention that a program like UKMC is low tier and programs like Brown PLME and Rice/Baylor are high tier. I haven’t seen anything on REMS or GWU, so where would they fall tier wise?
REMS is definitely high tier. They only accept 10-15 students yearly out of 700+ apps
When you refer to “tier” do you mean relative prestigiosity (it’s a made up CC word) of the med school? All US med schools are prestigious. Be so lucky as to get into any, much less a BS/MD program.
Students I know of in REMS turned down undergrad acceptances at Ivies and schools like Chicago to take advantage of the BS/MD program at URoc.
@linda REMS is a top-tier program and GWU middle tier. But both are very hard to get in unless the student has a good all round requirements on various aspects these BS/MD programs expect. But my observation is there is some slight variation on what exactly GWU expects (which differs from most of the other BS/MD programs). Best look at the students who got admitted in to GWU and see their profile from previous years to get a sense of what I am referring. Got a very high feedback from a parent whose D is doing REMS.
“Tier” is not a meaningful concept when it comes to medical school. Med school curriculum is standardized and students are required to take and pass the exact same series of standardized tests. Unless you plan on going into academic medicine, any med school will serve you jaunt fine to becoming a doctor. Now you may have other reasons to prefer certain schools over others, but don’t make the mistake of thinking that the average workday of a doctor who went to the Brown program is appreciably different (or reimbursed differently) from that of the doctor who went to UMKC.
@pizzagirl, tier is definitely a meaningful concept when it comes to medical school. Law school and dental school curricula are also standardized as well and those professions have tiers as well. It has nothing to do with the workday at all. There are other reasons in which the tier of the medical school can be important.