<p>I was just wondering how competitive and difficult is it to get into these programs. I talked to a BU Rep and she stated 1 in 2.4 students get in. But I feel like that’s pretty unlikely, because Medicine is a popular field.
Also what are their differences?
I understand that they help transition a student into BU Med-school but how?</p>
<p>engmedic is for biomedical engineers, mmedic for everyone else (but they are otherwise the same). you apply as a sophomore in college, get interviews at the undergrad and med schools if you move on to the next round, and get accepted the summer before your junior year of college. you take at least 4 courses that count for the medical school during your undergrad and have to maintain a minimum GPA and achieve a minimum score on the mcat. then, if you meet these requirements, you start at the medical school the august after graduation. you will have taken some medical school courses so you’ll have fewer courses in your first year of medical to ease the transition.</p>
<p>how competitive the programs are changes every year. we never really know how many students apply, but there are usually 10-18 students in the two programs that get accepted each year. i was in mmedic and am currently wrapping up my MS III at BUSM so feel free to ask me any questions!</p>
<p>Nice to read your elaborating.</p>
<p>My son is accepted as a CAS student with hope to go to the Med. School through the MMIP. How difficult is it? The MMIP told my son that a 3.6 GPA and 30-31 MCAT are needed to get into the program. </p>
<p>I heard that about 30-50 applicants to apply for the admissions for MMIP recently, and about 15-20 are admitted. Are they close?</p>
<p>What is the interveiw for? What do they want to get out of the interview?</p>
<p>At my son’s H.S., he got 3.9 (only 3 Bs, two of Bs were taken at 8th grade), and his SAT I & II are 800, AP Chemistry and AP Biology are As too. He is from a very competitive H.S., and has been study kind of hard, but not close to 90% of his capaities. do you think that he may get into BU’s MS per the CAS-MMIP path?</p>
<p>the mcat isn’t used as grading criteria, you have a minimum requirement after being accepted. there is no minimum gpa either. as stated prior, we never know how many students apply each year as we are never really told, but about 10-18 get admitted.</p>
<p>the application includes pretty much everything you would need to try to get into medical school through regular admission. interviews are the same. they basically want to see on your application that you are 100% certain that you want to go to medical school, and 100% certain that you want to go to BUSM in particular.</p>
<p>if your son can keep up those grades in his first two years of college, and has solid extracurriculars and LOR’s, and has experience in the medical field (research, shadowing, etc.) then he should have a very good chance at acceptance. he should go meet with the pre-med advisors in his first couple of months of undergrad to talk to them about the program and ask them specifically what they are looking for and whether or not he would be a good candidate. hope this helps!</p>
<p>AliAngel,</p>
<p>thanks. Very helpful.</p>