@tenderp@971337@SmartAlec@bunnicula23@HS2DirectMed Congrats on your combined program admission! You guys are amazing!!! Can you share your profile with me if you do not mind? I want to see what kind of qualities the combined programs like since when my D interviewed at HPME, the director told her she is not a typical candidate. Thanks in advance.
Congrats to all accepted to BU SMED! @agirlinasweater Keep your head up!
@6ofhearts yes and yes - it matters a lot. All things being equal (stats, ECs) you will have significantly more opportunities coming out of a top tier institution for both undergrad and medical schools. Though, this might not matter much if your main goal is to practice primary care or in a community practice (vs. an academic research institution).
Woke up with a good news. Received BU SMED acceptance.
@HS2DirectMed Congrats on BU and HPME offers.
As to your earlier question I canāt imagine turning down HPME for REMS.
HPME >>> REMS
Historically and currently HPME would rank #1 amongs the tier-1 BSMD programs by most people.
@narkor THANK YOU!! Highly appreciate your energy and time with all the details in your PM. I owe you.
@GoldenRock I received couple of emails regarding Deanās Scholarship and National Merit Finalist Scholarship. For the Financial Aid, there is a link https://faonline.rochester.edu. You need to enter student ID # to access FA info.
Dear All: For now I am holding on to BU, HPME, and REMS. I notified others (VCU, Union, RPI, ā¦) via email that I will not be attending. I will also call them on Monday morning to confirm.
If financial aid is not a big deal, common sense is HPME not REMS and BU.
6of hearts
The undergrad is not critical if you are guaranteed medical school for you are locked in
If you are applying to med school as undergrad. This is different
At the residency level
The medical school does make a difference
It is same for people have hard time to judge applicant so ivy med school is looked higher as well as other famous schoolā¦perhaps
I donāt agree with this for I personally went to state school
As a person who does interview for competitive ortho residency program
The key factors are us lme one , number honor s in third year medical school and rotation and letter
Research is icing on the cake
Medical school is another factor but you see the top three as stated above
Cheers
Good luck
Congrats to all who got admission to BU SMED.
@HS2DirectMed Thanks for the info on UR aid link. Let me check with my D if she has received her student id or not. She is a National Merit Finalist, so let us see what they have given.
@agirlinasweater Know it is very hard to swallow the setbacks. But just hang in, some thing will work out. Brown looks at different way relatively speaking, So you may get the surprise. GL
Here is the current status as of 03/19/2016 8 am PDT - College admissions announcement for BS/MD.
- UAB - 2/2
- RPI / AMC - 2/29 (Rolling admission)
- Union / AMC - 2/29 (Rolling admission)
- Sienna / AMC - 3/5 (Rolling admission)
- Temple/Temple - 3/3 (10 offers from 32 interviewed)
- PSU/Jefferson - 3/4
- Augusta U/Medical College of Georgia - 3/6
- Cincinnati - 3/7
- SLU - 3/7
- UR REMS - 3/7
- VCU - 3/8
- UConn SPIM - 3/10 (Postal mail)
- NEOMED - 3/15/ Email. Also will get postal mail from NEOMED and one of the 3 UG schools.
- Northwestern U HPME - 3/18 Decisions came out
- Boston Univ SMED - 3/19 - Portal update
I would say Brown >>>HPME>BU>REMS
Look at requirements for promotion and prestige of schools. Match day was yesterday if you are using residency placements as a measure. And also consider where u will be UG if 3 years from now you decide medicine is not the path u want to continue. You never know what influences might occurā¦ And if so where you are as an UG absolutely matters.
Moderatorās note:
Please post on the results thread if your admission cycle is complete. It would be helpful to the applicants coming in right behind you.
The answer is that it depends.
If you want to attend A medical school, you have to do very well in college, do all the right things, do well on MCAT. If you want to attend top medical schools, going to a well known undergrad AND doing all the right things expected helps but some of the top medical schools make it a point to admit people from every school but proportionally accept a lot more people from the prestigious schools.
I have heard a similar rule for top residencies. It is a little more complicated because who is your recommender can make a difference in where you can get in.
AHHHH I GOT INTO BU SMED!!!
This one feels so good after MANYYY previous rejcetions
Happy moment this morning. Accepted to BU SMED!!
Congrats on BU acceptance!
Accepted to BU!!!
YASSSS looks like to many of us got into BU, will sure have some gr8 classmates!!! PM me if you want to get in touch before then bc i think im pretty set on BU
Iām pretty disappointed though that I did not get Trusteeās Scholarship because of how expensive the school is. @SmartAlec, you are set on BU before even Rice or Brown or other programs come out?
Congrats to those who got into BU-SMED and good luck as you wait for someyhing better to those still waiting for a response from other schools.
@HS2DirectMed : my pleasure. I hope it helps you some in making the best decision. It is challenging but, luckily you know yourself better than anyone which helps.
@GoldenRock : thanks for keeping the decision dates updated regularly.
All: I was wondering if we could all pitch in for a document with number interviewed, number accepted or wait listed for this year like:
REMS - 45 interviewed, 15 accepted, ?5 wait listed
VCU - 60 interviewed, ? accepted etc