TCNJ/NJMS 7 year BS/MD program

Colleges and Universities A-Z The College of New Jersey
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<p>For those already in this guaranteed BS/MD program, do you have a sense of how many students who start the program at TCNJ are not able to go on to NJMS after 3 years (or 4 years) BECAUSE they could not maintain the required 3.5 GPA every semester? </p>

<p>Please do not include students in this guaranteed program who did not go to NJMS because they were accepted to a different medical school (and had given up their NJMS guarantee).</p>

<p>It's very hard to get a clear/transparent answer to this kind of question from BS/MD colleges, so thanks to anyone who can take an honest shot at it. I am trying to look beyond the typical answer that at least a 3.5 would be needed for REGULAR admission by med schools anyway and we should be thankful that we need only a 3.5 to keep the guarantee. This is because I have also heard that some (not all) BS/MD programs make you work so hard that with that kind of work you would have gotten into med school anyway, and get a much higher GPA by choosing not as hard courses at a more prestigious college which is also GPA friendly (i.e., Princeton).</p>

<p>Again, instead of long discussions anout TCNJ vs Princeton, the real number I would like here is how many students went to TCNJ in x year and of those how many of them were able to keep their GPA high enough to go to NJMS? Thanks</p>

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<p>I will have my DS PM you over the weekend. It’s best for him to respond since he could provide you his first hand experience.</p>

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<p>I can’t you exact numbers but as a freshman, I’m pretty sure that the vast majority of smeds get high enough grades to get into the med school (I don’t know any sophomores who are struggling). A 3.5 is like having half your grades as B+ and the other half as A- iirc. If you get into the program, I doubt you’ll have any problems maintaining a 3.5. As for making us work harder, I’m pretty sure that’s not true as the only difference between being a bio major in the program and a normal bio major is that smeds take Physics 202 and graduate a year early. We’re also in the same classes as those not in the program.</p>