<p>I received acceptance from NYIT with Acadamic plan/Sub Plan "BS Life Sciences Osteopathy". I am not sure if this is BS DO acceptance or not?
Any feedback on this program will be great. If they are accepting without interview, I am worried.</p>
<p>Don’t know much about NYIT but it sounds like an UG program only. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nyit.edu/life_sciences/academics/”>http://www.nyit.edu/life_sciences/academics/</a></p>
<p>It sounds like it is BS/DO but CC is not the correct place to ask what your admission letter means. You should contact the college directly if you got into the program listed in the above site.</p>
<p>Were you able to find out whether it is UG or BS/DO?</p>
<p>No. No one from the admission office is responding to calls or emails.</p>
The nyit web site
http://www.nyit.edu/medicine/admissions/bs_do_program/
has a different term for bs/do program than you first posted. I suspect that you got into only the bs part, not a bs/do program
I received the same letter, and had the same question. My admissions counselor wrote back saying I have been accepted to their BS in Life Sciences program for fall 2015, and if I keep up a 3.5 GPA, interview well with the DO school, and score well on the MCAT, have a seat in their DO program. So no need to worry… I think.
^^^ @Always49
If you did what was told why you have to stay with nycom? You will be accepted by a better school such as pcom or better yet, be accepted by a md school.
You should contact them again this week. Probably no one answering stuff.
Ummm, that’s basically what applying to school is. Not much of a guarantee here….
According to this page though: http://www.nyit.edu/life_sciences/academics/ it looks like it is the combined program.
Read the linked page on that program. This is a “combined” program in name only:
Contrast it to the brown PLME program where you simply just have to successfully graduate with a degree and complete certain courses. http://brown.edu/academics/medical/plme/current-students/requirements-graduation
I got confirmation that this is a BS- DO program acceptance. Basically there is no guarantee even if you maintain required GPA and get median MCAT score. I want to find out what is the success rate to go NYCOM from this program. May be some current students will reply.
please see post #3 (i guess it’s really reply #3): http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/1484178-if-you-are-in-high-school-please-read-this-before-posting-p1.html
As long as you meet the academic requirements, which includes receiving the median MCAT score, then you will be able to transition into the medical portion of the B.S./D.O. program. Please contact the Office of Admissions to speak to an admissions counselor about this program and the success rate. Please call 516-686-7520 or email admissions@nyit.edu.
NYITAdmission: Thanks for posting comment.
We did contact the admission office but not able to get the success rate of this program. The response was, they don’t know this as the number of students accepted into this program varies year to year.
It is very difficult to commit to such program when you have high degree of uncertainty even if you meet academic and MCAT requirement.
BTW, I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with this NYIT program per se. I’m just saying don’t get caught up in this “Combined BS/DO program” idea. I’m just saying that this situation is basically a no risk scenario for NYIT while promising you essentially nothing, so if other schools appeal to you more, don’t think you’re sacrificing much (if anything) by turning down this “combined BS/DO program”
Also I realize now you meant the success rate of the “combined” students for it’s own school. That number would be very interesting/useful to know.
iwannabe_brown:
Thanks. I am weighing against BS at case western with 25K/year scholarship. Since I don’t qualify for need based scholarship, it is very appealing to me.
if you have the stats to get a 25k merit scholarship from Case I find it hard to believe you couldn’t do well enough to get into an allopathic med school (or do you specifically want to do DO)? If it were me, I would definitely choose Case.