<p>What is Burnett Medical Scholars (BMS) program?</p>
<p>"The program is not designed as an accelerated program"</p>
<p>OK then what below line means?? </p>
<p>"Students admitted to the program reserve a seat in UCFs College of Medicine upon completion of their undergraduate studies at UCF"</p>
<p>How many seats available in BMS? How may get admitted to med school? </p>
<p>Any info on this BMS? Any one?</p>
<p>It means that you get automatically accepted into UCF’s medical school if you meet all the requirements. It’s not a 7 year accelerated program. It’s a simple 4 + 4.</p>
<p>500 students admitted to Burnett per year. So how may can get admitted to med school? There must be filter which is not clear.</p>
<p>Called UCF few times on this. But not getting any clear answer. something is fishy (I wish I am wrong)</p>
<p>I don’t know their criteria for this program to get admission but everyone who applied to Burnett Medical Scholars (BMS) got admitted to this program with no interviews (Per UCF). </p>
<p>I don’t except all of them will get admitted to med school (I wish I am wrong again)</p>
<p>The Burnett Honors College and the Burnett Medical Sholars Program is not the same thing. The Burnett Honors College accepts about 500 new students a year. To be accepted into the program you must fill out an application. To be eligible to succeed in the medical shool you must pass through several evaluations (MCAT, GPA, Faculty Evaluations, Interview, etc.). This is all explained, although not in the best detail, on the website. </p>
<p>[BMS</a> Eligibility](<a href=“http://honors.ucf.edu/admissions/bmseligibility]BMS”>http://honors.ucf.edu/admissions/bmseligibility)</p>
<p>Why they need Faculty Evaluations and Interview? Why not like any other 4+4 programs just to have number to meet (GPA and MCAT)</p>
<p>I guess this program is not genuine.</p>
<p>Not genuine? Having all those requirements gives applicants a chance to show all their facets. An ingenuine program would only look at your GPA and MCAT scores. This a program that helps build up talented students in order to not only prepare them for medical shool but make tem a competitve candidate for other opportunities. </p>
<p>I don’t understand how that is ingenuine.</p>
<p>There are 100+ BS/MD (with guaranteed med seat) programs from other schools. </p>
<p>Check out yourself at Multiple Degree Programs - College Confidential Forums</p>
<p>None of them required Faculty Evaluations and Interview after getting admission to BS or BA.</p>
<p>Why interview when seat is reserved! Later part of this program they simply use “Interview” to kick students out from med school!? It happened in FL!</p>
<p>What happened in Florida?</p>
<p>I don’t see anything wrong with it. Those are the requirements of the program. These requirements aren’t even bad. An interview for this program is just one out of the many more a prospective medical student will have to endure. </p>
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This program reserves a spot. It isn’t a guaranteed spot. </p>
<p>Hofstra University is similar. An interview is required sometime within the program. In its case, it is in the beginning.
<a href=“http://www.hofstra.edu/admission/adm_4plus4.html[/url]”>http://www.hofstra.edu/admission/adm_4plus4.html</a></p>
<p>There’s even a thread dedicated to interviews on the page which you directed me to.
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/multiple-degree-programs/1424359-bs-md-interview-notification-class-2013-a.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/multiple-degree-programs/1424359-bs-md-interview-notification-class-2013-a.html</a></p>
<p>Majority of these programs require scores, faculty evaluations (high school recommendations/professor recomendations), application, and an interview. There’s no way to get around it. The timing of the interviews is up to the university to decide. It’s decision on the interview time depends on how selective they were in selecting the candidates.</p>
<p>I repeat again “None of them required Faculty Evaluations and Interview after getting admission to BS or BA”</p>
<p>All interviews and Faculty Evaluations for getting into these BS/MD program. Not after getting into these program. I am one of the active member in that thread.</p>
<p>All these program just looking for MCAT and GPA numbers. No interviews after getting into BS/BA program.</p>
<p>I don’t see where the problems lies. The BMS program requires you to pass all of the requirements. What’s so bad about that? </p>
<p>Yes, the programs that you are talking about do require an interview after being accepted for admission. But this is where UCF’s program differs. BS/MD programs generally have an interview process during the selection process. UCF does not. In order to get selected you must meet the eligibility requirements (course rigor, class rank, GPA, standardized test scores, and fill out an application). They have not interviewed any of the members of their program as of yet. Theinterview is at a later time (3rd year).</p>
<p>Anyone else got any input on this topic?</p>
My son is accepted for fall 2016. Yes, you have to keep 3.75 at the end of 4 years plus minimum MCAT. Interview is always needed to enter to any medical school. In this case they are doing it after the 2nd year. Th Honor’s college of course wants you to succeed so they are there giving you the advice and support.
My daughter is accepted for this fall. No programs offer guaranteed admissions, they are all provisional admissions like UCF has. You have a seat if you maintain the required GPA, match or exceed the minimum MCAT required, take the prerequisite courses, etc. very doubtful an interview or evaluation will knock you out of the program unless there are some kind of major issues. Most people in programs like this still apply to other med schools too, looking for the best fit and cost, the provisional guarantee gives you the equivalent of a med school safety. So the interviews at UCF are actually a help in getting you ready to interview elsewhere for other med schools, and later, for residencies and fellowships.
@Skates76 is your daughter considering attending UCF? I am looking for roommates, and I felt like rooming with a BMS student would help the both of us stay focused
@sunmij071 She has pared her list down to four schools, and UCF is on that list. She has one more accepted student visit at another school in a few weeks before she decides. I love UCF’s Honors and Medical Scholars programs, great BMS majors and the most amazing dorms. She likes it as well, the kids there are focused, but friendly and not cut throat. We’ll know her decision in mid-April.
@Skates76 awesome, thank you so much!