How challenging is it to get into both the 7 year and the 8 year combined Bachelors and Medical degree programs at Montclair. I am curious at how difficult it is to get accepted compared to the other combined programs at NJIT, Rutgers, and TCNJ. Also the 8 year program has significantly lower requirements? Does anyone know the reason for this? Also if anyone who is in the program or was accepted could give me some pointers?
Thanks in advance!
They are as hard as getting into a little ivy. 5 years ago D got into TCNJ program but didn’t like Newark. She went out of state to a school with the best aid. I would apply to 20 combined and one safety. Most med schools have 10,000 applicants for the general population spots of 90 or 100"free spots." not taken by these combined programs…
Most med schools will not even look at 22 year olds and the average age of accepted students is 26 years old…
You might get into 2 or,3 programs . Then pick the best aid package in the area you want to spend the next 8 or 10 years in.
D has a younger friend who,worked,with her in a camp for severely ill children. 3 years ago,she picked Harvard over a combined program and is now as a senior kicking herself. She will eventually get into a med school but willhave to spend themnext two years getting real world healh care experience or her masters degree. Schools count grads who take up to 10 ears to get into med school. Excuse the typos with this tablet.
@raycmr, I absolutely disagree with your statement, “Most med schools will not even look at 22 year olds and the average age of accepted students is 26 years old.” The average age going into med school is 24, but medical schools absolutely are taking well-qualified traditional students who graduate at the age of 22 and go onto med schoool.
Some BS/MD or BA/MD programs are great, and some aren’t. It should be the goal of every high school student to find the undergraduate and med school that’s the right fit for them, and not all med schools have the same strengths or the same weaknesses.
You can disagree all you want. I know a dean of admissions and they barely look at 22 years olds. Further, his school average age is 26 not 24. Finally, he went through 12,000 applications at his school. You should look for medical schools that have the highest rate of graduates passing the medical boards. If you graduate the top 10 % of the medical class you get the best residencies.
@Raycmr, as a medical school graduate and residency graduate, I’m not giving my opinion. It’s based on the actual data coming from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). You may have have 1 anecdote of having talked with a dean of admissions for a medical school who barely look at 22 year olds for admission, but I am looking at the aggregate data of all US allopathic medical schools, in which the average age for women and men matriculating into medical school is still age 24: https://www.aamc.org/download/321468/data/factstable6.pdf. This average age has stayed relatively stable over the years. In the above link, you can also see the distribution of ages, as well, and that well includes traditional students who enter college at 18, graduate at 22, and enter medical school that coming fall.
All medical schools have a very high rate of their students passing the medical boards (Average score is another story) because it is an LCME requirement for them, in order to stay accredited, which is closely watched, so it’s not exactly a great stratifier. If medical schools have a continued problem of their students not being able to pass the boards, the schools are quickly put on probation by the LCME.
My point is that you originally said, “Most med schools will not even look at 22 year olds and the average age of accepted students is 26 years old” – that is just not true, based on the actual data, not one anedcote.