Simon’s Rock publishes that many of their students transfer to or go to graduate school at some very competitive colleges. It’s hard to verify just how many of Simon’s Rock students actually go to schools like University of Chicago, Columbia, Stanford, Cornell, Berkeley etc. Our daughter has been accepted to Simon’s Rock and is single minded in her pursuit of becoming a trauma surgeon. Without going into details, this school seems like a perfect choice for her at this time and we expect that she will thrive in the S.R. environment. What we are concerned about is if she will be able to pursue a medical degree at a competitive school after attending Simon’s Rock. Anyone out there know of (or are themselves) graduates of Simon’s Rock who have gone on to become medical doctors?
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What we are concerned about is if she will be able to pursue a medical degree at a competitive school after attending Simon’s Rock.
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Are you asking if your DD spends 4 years at SR can she go to med school? Yes.
However, will your DD be very young when she graduates from SR?
She will be 20 when she graduates. She is mature beyond her years. She has held leadership positions (in charge of much older teenage boys) in the Civil Air Patrol since she was 13 years old and is currently the executive officer for her entire squadron. She currently volunteers 40+ hours of EMT as a cadet a month and was the youngest ER volunteer allowed at our local hospital (14 yrs old). She has already studied abroad at 14 yrs old. She is currently 16 yrs old. She wants to be a field trauma surgeon in the military. She is currently at community college and if she does not go to S.R. she will attend a local university for her science and math courses (as home schooled high school student she has been accepted to take two courses a semester) and continue at the community college for her humanities (allowed 2 per semester). Its a long story as to why she is being educated this way, but it involves her being ill for an extended period of time and the fact that once one has been educated like an adult its hard to go back to a public high school environment.
Med schools don’t care much about where a student goes to undergrad, so SR is fine if she goes there. If your local state school is weak/unknown, it may be a problem.
Have you looked at this page? http://simons-rock.edu/why-simons-rock/reputation-and-outcomes/index.php
It says 78% of recent graduates go to graduate school.
Pre-med students also have the opportunity to participate in a fellowship at a SUNY: http://simons-rock.edu/academics/program-overview/suny-upstate-medical-university-summer-research-fellowship.php
I’d recommend contacting Simon’s Rock directly and asking how many of their graduates go to med school.
Also I just wanted to say that I’ve known a lot of people who’ve gone there and all of them have commented on the party culture there. There’s a lot of substance use, including hard drugs. You may already be familiar with this or it may not be a concern, but thought I should mention it!
I don’t know if asking how many SR students go on to med school will be that useful. It’s a tiny school to begin with. A smaller number are degree-seeking, and it appears that a number of young students transfer out (maybe once their families think they’re old enough??). I doubt that SR has that many rising seniors applying to med school simply because it probably doesn’t have that many total rising seniors anyway.
We have been to the school and read all of their published statistics. I think mom2collegekids is right in that its a small school so the population going to med school is small. We are not concerned about the drugs though we have read that there are kids on campus who participate. Our daughter goes on EMT calls reviving drug overdoses. She is grounded and likes being in control, so the idea of drug and alcohol use does not appeal to her. She wants to go there for the academics. She loves the small classes and the interactive relationship students have with their professors. She is thrilled at the idea of being in an environment where the classroom talk carries over to the mealtime talk. Its just one of those, "if it sounds to good to be true… "
Have you seen this -
http://simons-rock.edu/why-simons-rock/rocker-community/meet-our-students/sam-yarmis.php
Recently met someone who went to SR and did an EMT program in Great Barrington and became certified.
Is this for Fall 2016? Did she only apply to SR and the local state school? Is money a concern at all?
I’m also thinking that another alternative is a small private, maybe a faith-based one. My friend’s DD recently graduated from Dominican in Kansas (she was young and homeschooled) and it seemed to be a nice/safe place for her.
Is your local state school “known”? Would med schools know about it? or is it a directional that few would know about outside your state?
She is not going to the local (private) university as a college student. She is going as a home school high school student for only 2 classes a semester. We were not thinking that she would be working on her college degree at the time we arranged this we were just trying to figure out how to educate her in a challenging way for high school. Then we were turned-on to Simon’s Rock where she can actually be in college legitimately and starting the clock as a Freshman in college instead of a high school kids taking colleges classes. Is this similar to what your friend’s DD did? The thing is that we think the academics at Simon’s Rock are going to be far more rigorous than that of the local private university. That at the end of the day she will have stronger academic skills if she goes to Simon’s Rock. They are giving her money but we still need to come up with a chunk of our own. If she can’t really transfer the credits if she wants to transfer or the school is not really looked at seriously by medical schools than it will have been a lot of money spent for her to end up as a freshman somewhere else. There is just not enough data out there outside of what is supplied by Simon’s Rock. Hence my reaching out to the world on the world wide web. (Does anyone even call it that anymore?)
Too funny - I get a weekly google alert email about Simon’s Rock, and this thread came up, so I clicked on it, only to find that someone above linked to my profile on the Simon’s Rock website! Had to make a profile to respond. 
I’m a current third year medical student who graduated from Simon’s Rock in 2014, was very happy with my education and overall experience there. I’m more than happy to talk to you/your daughter (or anyone else considering Simon’s Rock) via email - it’s sam.yarmis(at)gmail. I’m usually quick to respond, unless I have exams fast approaching.
Briefly, I will say that the school you attend for undergrad seriously does not matter for medical school at all. Some of my interviewers knew Simon’s Rock, many didn’t, and it never really mattered. She should go where she wants to go/where is best for her. There are a million things that matter for medical school; undergrad is not really one of them. In terms of academics, it’s an amazing place. I spent a year abroad at Oxford, and loved it, but the academics there were extraordinarily similar in quality to Simon’s Rock, and certainly no more challenging, which I think surprises a lot of people unfamiliar with Simon’s Rock.