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I know the post-bac the program existed ~10 years ago.
For those interested.
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/sites/default/files/acad/prehealth/docs/annual_report_prehealth11.pdf
I have seen a lot of people start premed at various institutions and not finish premed for a variety of reasons. Most of the time, they just don’t have the stuff and they are not willing to make the sacrifices involved to succeed even if they are very capable generally. If you really want to go to med school, then go to a large public university, save your money, get a 4.0, and do some sort of enrichment activities in the summer. The more complicated you make it, the more complicated it will be.
I am not saying that is the only alternative. But there are likely more people who quit pre-med at LAC’s like Mount Holyoke than those that successfully advance to medical school. The premed students who advance are a distillate of the original cohort of premed students. Of course, the same is true at any school, but generally speaking the more selective the school, the tougher the competition, and the lower the likelihood of top grades. The premed curriculum is essentially the same everywhere. Paying $60,000 to sit in a library one place vs $20,000 to sit in a library in another place is the issue.
46 years after my graduation I learned recently why I did not succeed in Chemistry 101 at Mount Holyoke and abandoned my thoughts of medical school. It has puzzled me because I earned the highest grade in my competitive Long Island high school on the NY State Regents Chemistry exam. For all these years I just attributed my mediocre performance to the fact of the increased competition at Mount Holyoke (I was in the “big time” so to speak). Now the answer is a bit murkier. So many entering students at that time (the late Sixties) wanted to go to medical school that the Chemistry department at Mount Holyoke actively sought to discourage most of them in order to get the number of majors down to a manageable level. One of the laboratory experiments in Chemistry 101 featured a problem involving mixing two solutions and passing the precipitate through a filter. The crafty professors gave out filter paper that deliberately was the wrong type so that only those with exceptional problem solving skills would blame the failure of their experiment on the paper! I got a C+ in the course after earning an A+ in high school chemistry (beating out a classmate who went on to get the Nobel Prize in Physics).
A former Mount Holyoke chemistry major who graduated a year ahead of me told me this story last week. She learned the truth because she did not take high school chemistry and started with the basic chemistry course at Mount Holyoke. She and the others in that course learned about the trick and the ethos of the Chemistry department and went on to a successful career as a opthamologist. I hope that this is an historical artifact!