***Official Thread for 2020 BSMD applicants***

@Xjrxjr Go with Michigan (unless you got a solid aid from UCB (I doubt) or Georgetown.

You S did not apply to Rutgers-NB in addition to NJMS BS/MD ?.

Folks

Comparing of 4-5% BS/MD acceptance rate with 40% traditional medical route is INCORRECT and is like comparing apples and oranges.

If you apply to Harvard, you are competing among the 7,000 who apply but only 150 will join.
Ratio is approx 2%.
That is the correct comparison since the 4-5% acceptance rate for BS/MD is for each program.

That is why choice of which colleges to apply becomes very important in a regular route.

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Also, people applying for BS MD are worried about being in 60% who do not get it (not 13%) as well as spending 1-2 gap years.
Medical school is about 11 - 14 year investment after high school - why add 1-2 years to that.

All you need is one medical school or one bs/md admission. Most applicant to bs/md are high stat students who probably fall into 13% failure category i.e. they can get a UG GPA >= 3.7 and MCAT score >= 518. Of course, medical school application list is important for regular route. The 40% success rate for regular route is valid assuming one does a good job on medical ECs, personal statement, secondaries, interviews and medical school list. These same factors are also applicable to those applying via bs/md route.

Yes, ruteger NB accepted

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My D got admission to UCB a few years ago as OOS but did not join. IMO, NJMS BS/MD or Rutgers-NB may not be a bad choice for a NJ resident.

The 40% often quoted here includes both Osteopathic and Allopathic med schools. As you rightly said, with gap years. And won’t factor in the pre med students who never reach the applications stage due to the weeding out in tough schools. Also how many of those who make it will be actually happy with the med school they end up in? Say for someone from some ivy and prestige obsessed, going to a non fancied med school may be a downgrade in their (and parents?) minds.

If you look at the figures of ORMs attending allopathic programs from traditional routes, the percentage will be lower and the MCAT and gpa bars higher.

DO NOT GO To UCB as OOS premed. Very hard to get required GPA and have to compete hard for research and other ECs.

How do you compare Emory and Georgetown as premed? Which one has better chance for med school acceptance? we do not have any BSMD acceptances yet so we have to stat planning for plan B. Any advise ? Also where would we find out more detail about ranking for all the undergrad for med school acceptance rate ??

Do we know how many high schoolers weed out before applying to any college? Fear mongering is not going to help.

Based on rationale, a bird in hand, a bird can be unhappy too, we just can’t have it both ways.

@SoConfused2020

If GA resident go with EMory. If not, go with where ever low cost and your child likes.

Hello, I was accepted to USC and the BS/MD program at Texas A&M. USC is very prestigious has an amazing environment but the Texas A&M program Guarantees a medical school seat and only a 3.5 gpa and 502 mcat is required. I’m torn between these 2 choices and want others feedback on what they would do.

@MerkedXD hey I am literally in the same boat as you I just got spring admit to USC earlier today and also accepted to TAMU S2M program. USC is a phenomenal school but I’ve seen that it’s pre-med student matriculation rate to med school hovers around 60%, which is comparable to UT Austin. TAMU is the cheapest med school in the country and you’d be graduating with very little debt for a med student so im leaning towards TAMU but that’s just me! DM me if you want to talk about it more!

US(Cal)?

What is your path to med school from US(Cal)? I thought very difficult in CA. How badly do you want to go to med school?

Michigan. But Georgetown has an early assurance program which is pretty good too,

You can’t tell merely by looking at pre-med student matriculation numbers given by schools. Lot of them (even the most prestigious) fudge these numbers to make it look better. They filter out their students and alumni who suffer weed outs and burnouts and project manipulated numbers.

Some of the schools like Emory for example are straight forward and hence their numbers and rates may appear lower than those if their peers. Not sure about how USC does it though.

So we are back to anyone who has Ivy league and other top school options (whether it’s USNWR or Times or some other no name publication), wants to work hard and aim high are prestige obsessed, but those who are afraid of being in 13% of high stats UG kids who failed to get MD admission and willing to spend half million for BSMD at a school they otherwise would have not gone for UG are the sane ones? I really like the advice from those who had single admission and then suddenly becomes experts.

By that standard, colleges (any) should include all high schoolers who didn’t become college eligible for variety of reasons (from academics failures to cost). Too much focus is given to weed outs, hence fear mongering. Risk is part of life and human development, not a bottleneck.