<p>How important do you think college visits are when applying to medical programs? </p>
<p>Not in terms of getting to know the college/ atmosphere because I know they are very important for that, but in terms of how the admissions' committee will look at your enthusiasm for the undergrad school? Are they really that necessary?</p>
<p>I don't think it's necessary to visit the schools depending on the program you are talking about. </p>
<p>Most of these programs, if you fit the credentials that they require, I think they just forward your app to the med school affiliated with the program. Then the med school decides if they want to interview you. Pretty much if you get interviewed you are in the undergrad school already. Did anyone else think this too with programs like Union/AMC, Lehigh Drexel, UConn? It seemed like they just forwarded my application to the med school right away because I got notifications of my apps being sent to the med schools really early before hearing from anything else. Then after I got interviews for some of these programs, I heard or knew I was already accepted to the undergrad.</p>
<p>For the competetive ones like USC, Rice/Baylor, Brown though, you have to be accepted into the regular school before they even consider you for the med program.</p>
<p>that is along the lines of what I was thinking...that it doesn't really matter for the lehigh/drexel, union/amc types but for the really top ones like PLME, HPME, rice it would be good. But for me those are the ones I can't visit bcuz of distance. But obviously I would go to any of those if I got an interview.</p>
<p>thnx for the info slx88...anyone else?</p>