<p>IMGDAD
With your son’s stats, he will get in to all the BS/MD programs he will be applying to, just like HPEMOM’s son last year. </p>
<p>So enjoy the ride…:)</p>
<p>@tamtiger, thank you. I hope that is the case, but there are a number of challenging issues with my son. He is only 15 years old. He messed up his GPA last year, after going to a state-funded college level high school, meant for high schoolers who have completed two years of high school, right after finishing his eighth grade. We pulled him out of the school ad he is going online high school and has pulled his GPA up to 3.71 but with a ACT score of 33 and SAT score of 2240 (superscore).</p>
<p>If your son is accepted to a 7 year BAMD college, he can be a physician at age of 23. How great he is. Please give him a good guidance to consider others, not only to pursue his own goal as a smart kid. :)</p>
<p>IMGDAD, congrats. 15 is too young. See if he can get a better score and a better GPA. Good you have the DO in hand, but if the kid is smart they feel that they dont fit there.
To be really competitive you should be in the top 1% of everything that matters.</p>
<p>@HPMEMOM, thank you for your comments. Unfortunately, he has got himself into a position that he has to go to college next Fall since he has already nearly completed all the high school curriculum for graduation. He is okay with the BS/DO program, although I would have preferred a BS/MD program. Well, he has applied to several and we will just have to see what happens and if he would change his mind about the BS/DO program if he gets into a BS/MD program instead.</p>
<p>@IMGDAD - Well then, he is in a much better position than the rest of the pool with one admission in hand. At the end of the day he will be a physician regardless of where he goes, so that is good. All the best.</p>
<p>@HPMEMOM, thank you. I think this is definitely better than an undergraduate program and having to apply to so many schools at the end of UG with no certainty of admission. For LECOM, last year it received more than 7500 applicants from UG students and accepted 350 in total, with the mean UG GPA of those admitted at 3.6. The competition will be even higher with MD schools.</p>
<p>Do they have 350 seats for DO program?</p>
<p>@texaspg, yes apparently so. LECOM is now the biggest med school in this country and it has three campus, the main one in Erie, PA, another one in Seton Hill, PA, and another one in Florida and the total intake for the three campuses is around 550 students. The critiques say that it is expanding too fast and just churning out doctors but the supporters say that because of the large alumni it has, it has been very easy to get into most residency programs, allopathic or osteopathic, since LECOM has managed to plant many of its alumni in so many institutions and programs.</p>
<p>@IMGDAD when did your son apply? and is the program guaranteed? Was it a personal or phone interview?</p>
<p>@rocking1, he applied in August. It was a group interview with four other applicants and two interviewers.</p>
<p>@HPME:</p>
<p>“Good you have the DO in hand, but if the kid is smart they feel that they dont fit there”</p>
<p>Not true… many of my fellow DO schoolmates graduated from some of top colleges in US, including Princeton, U of Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, U Penn, Berkeley, Norte Dame, NYU and …many of them went on to very successful careers after completing residencies at either DO or MD programs… one of them was even an intern of the year at Stony as a DO and then completed an anesthesiology program at Mt. Sinai. Now days, many of my pre-med patients apply to both MD and DO programs at the same time.</p>
<p>@upstream, I cannot agree more. DO is becoming a real alternative for those who want to pursue a career in medicine. Two very successful cardiologists in my town went to DO schools and one did his fellowship in cardiology in Cleveland and another one in Temple. For those who want to do medicine but not accepted into a BS/MD program, a BS/DO program is probably better than going to an undergraduate school not knowing what the future will be. My son initially applied to the BS/DO program as a backup but now he actually is thinking about going to the program rather than to a BS/MD program, even if he is accepted into one. He likes the holistic approach to patients in DO and yet is sure that being a DO would not prevent or disadvantage him from specializing, as long as he does well in his USMLEs.</p>
<p>Hey! I’m a senior applying for some BS/MD programs. I’m only applying to Siena/AMC, RPI/AMC and possibly UMKC (probably not though)</p>
<p>I’m not really applying to a wide range because I think the ones I mentioned are good fits for me and my GPA’s not exactly the best so I probably won’t get in 
But I’m at least hoping for an interview!</p>
<p>Also, if anyone has ANY advice about Siena’s BS/MD program It’d be great! It’s my top choice atm if I get in b/c I love the humanities portion of it and I like the volunteering because it’s the main reason why I want to be a doctor. 
But I think me being Indian will hurt my chances :(</p>
<p>This question may be out of most people’s league, but I might as well try. Somebody passing over the forum may spot this and know. I plan on being an Air Force Flight Surgeon and want to do ROTC as an undergrad. I know about the whole deal of future doctor prospects in ROTC not being allowed to go to Med School and being forced to commission, but my question is would it be safer to do a BS/MD or BS/DO with ROTC than just waiting to apply to med school later? I’m wondering because I like to think the Air Force would be willing reserve your spot so to speak if you start as undergrad already accepted to med school. Anybody got an opinion?</p>
<p>Sean, I think they do this is medical school. So it does not matter if you do the BS/MD program or do the traditional route. Once you get to medical school you get to apply. They dont guarentee that spot for you in your BS even if you get in through an BS MD Program.</p>
<p>Are we still early in the application process or is there just a general lack of enthusiasm for CC discussion this year. Activities in this thread is just so slow, compared to what it was like last year.</p>
<p>Got my HPME application today!! Hopefully it won’t be too bad…</p>
<p>Has anyone else here gotten an innovation to interview at Widener for the Medical Scholars Program?</p>
<p>Does anyone have any experience with UMKC’s application? I really wanted to get my materials in before the October 15th deadline, and I submitted everything, but one of my teachers didn’t submit his letter of recommendation!! Am I going to be pushed into the regular deadline or do you think they’ll still consider me for early notification?</p>
<p>It’s not really a big deal, but I worked really hard to get the application done by today and my teacher didn’t feel the need to finish by today even though I told him it was really important to me to get it in by the deadline…grrr.</p>