<p>As has been mentioned numerous times before, the educational quality of medical schools is about the same. If you like St. Louis and the finances work out, there's no reason not to take this opportunity.</p>
<p>That's true. Personally, however, I want to keep my options open, and I feel like SLU's undergrad is lacking compared to what my main plan is: The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.</p>
<p>i didn't mean mayo. that was too late at night. sorry</p>
<p>and umich is really good for graduate. if you believe you can do well at mich and get into their med school... then thats a good choice</p>
<p>i meant university of washington</p>
<p>bluedevil: How do you access a school's match list?</p>
<p>epsilon - "And I highly doubt that 1500 people applied for this thing. My MSAR says that a little over 200 people applied in the 04-05 entering class."
..the 04-05 thing is true but i highly doubt that the head of the medical school would lie about the number of applicants...</p>
<p>l0vevik - "A 45% acceptance rate into med school isn't what i look forward to."
...the medical school's acceptance rate is 9.8%..go to usnews.com</p>
<p>epsilon - is st. louis not a college town? idk ive never been there but theres like wash u., slu, and stlcop all in one area..i wouldnt say its absolutely not a college town..u kno wat i mean?</p>
<p>1.) You'd have to ask the school in question for a match list.</p>
<p>2.) The 45% number refers to the overall number of students who are admitted into any medical school. 9.8% may well be SLU's number in particular, but 45% of students who apply to medical schools generally are admitted to at least one.</p>
<p>Obviously, however, these "tracked" programs are not being run out of charity. They're offered to students that the admissions committee feels confident they would have admitted in four years anyway.</p>
<p>They're guaranteeing you a spot now to make it more likely that they can keep you in the future.</p>
<p>ya but what's lame is that they cancel your guaranteed acceptance if you apply out to any other medical schools once you finish your undergrad, maybe a little insecurity there?</p>
<p>yeah thats the problem...</p>
<p>having a straight med is like security
if i happen to get a 4.0 and a 34 or something by the end of undergrad, then i'll probably opt out.</p>
<p>u can always apply out if you feel confident that you'll get into somewhere else..almost every straight program is like that..you're guaranteed admission is withdrawn if you apply out</p>
<p>but atleast u have the piece of mind that ok if you mess up the mcats then u cant apply out but atleast you'll get into med scool...</p>
<p>so i would think its worth it..and then if u do get a good mcat score..then u can apply oout...</p>
<p>i kno a guy who applied out with a 34 mcat and then ended up going bak to slu's school of medicine anyway..and they took him eventho he opted out of the med program</p>
<p>many of the big programs actually allow you to apply out without withdrawing ur guarantee, two examples that I know of for sure are GPPA(univ of ill. at Chicago) and HPME</p>
<p>thats true..</p>
<p>whats funny is UIC med school is the same if not worse than SLU med school</p>
<p>well i heard from someone that gppa was a lot better than slu medical scholars...</p>
<p>probably cause of the amount of interviews gppa holds...</p>
<p>vik u got anything for slu's side of the argument?</p>
<p>i can assure you guys that gppa is better lol, or at least a hell of a lot more competitive</p>
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<p>But they still require you to attend an undergrad which might not otherwise be the best place for you.</p>
<p>very true but the whole point for a lot of people is the security of already being in a med school, but yes it is def an arguable point, just depends on what your purpose is in applying to a med program, it def gives you a ton of freedom that the typical pre-med student terribly lacks</p>
<p>i was only refering to the med schools being relatively equal... or slu being better</p>
<p>i dont know anything about the programs themselves Im pretty sure GPPA is a much older program and has gained prestige in that way. And yes, GPPA has interviews whereas slu does not</p>
<p>true..gppa could be better than slu med scholars</p>
<p>but if what someone said was true slu = 60/1500 where as gppa =35/700</p>
<p>slu has the slight edge there...</p>
<p>haha unfortunately its not that simple, you have to consider the quality of applicants as well, anyone can apply to SLU med program, the only extra work in addition to the undergrad app is simply checking a box, no med essays or anything, GPPA requires a pretty lengthy application with an additional essay for the honors college, if we only thought in terms of the statistics you gave you are also saying that SLU is better than HPME and Rice/Baylor, which are pretty much the two best programs in the country not counting some very small ultra competitive ones like wash u....slu is slu, there is no getting around that, i would have to say u of i med school is definitely better</p>
<p>well well...</p>
<p>brown plme is only a checkbox too..</p>
<p>and SLU requires extra essays</p>