There are DO school SMP programs will accept (not interview) students into their DO program if your GPA is high enough. For example,
https://tourocom.touro.edu/academics/ms-program/
In that, if your GPA in the program is 3.45 or higher Touro will admit you into their DO program
You should go through each and every DO school SMP programs and find out the details. DO school SMP is very different from MD school SMPs. There is a DO school SMP will coach you for the MCAT test and that is all they do.
OTOH, med schools are not for the fainted hart, students admitted from those direct admit SMP programs are mostly weaker students and some of them has to repeat their OMS1 or OMS2 didadics(5-10%), some do flunk out.
BTW, MD school SMPs are lot more than $35K/year. I think GW SMP COA is around 80K, but they probably is one of the top programs, you need close to 3.3 sgpa and old Mcat 30 to get in. A kid I know just went through with a better UG stats, he is in an MD school now.
You can find more SMP programs that has direct admit possibility if you attain certain criteria set by the program at SDN. Use the following search terms.
smps-with-guaranteed-acceptance-both-md-and-do
That post is little old, but the information is still relevant.
CC will not allow post sdn links any more.
This helps a ton. Thank you all so much for all the information.
Will definitely go over everything and take all of your advice. Thanks again.