I was thinking about applying next year to all of their BS/MD programs but I heard they all got compacted and acceptance rate lowered. I know for a fact that Monmouth/Drexel is gone (talked to admission office), Drexel/Drexel is now 8 instead of 7 years and that the remaining programs (Rossamund, Villanova, Lehigh etc.) haven’t been updated yet for 2017-2018. Can someone provide some clarity towards the situation? I emailed the med school admission address, and got no response whatsoever.
Drexel’s Medical School made a decision that the only feeder school they would take BS/MD students from is Drexel, and that the program would be changed to 8 years instead of 7. In 2016 they had about 7+ feeder schools including Villanova, Monmouth, and Mulhenburg. Then in 2017 they changed it so students in the program could only apply through Lehigh, Rosemont, and Drexel. For the 2018 applicants they made it so you can only apply through Drexel. This decision has been in the making for a while now but we haven’t recieved a concrete explanation. As for the acceptance rate, in 2017 the program had around a 3% acceptance rate (60ish students accepted from 2000+). Keep in mind 60 kids do not start in the fall. Many choose to go to other programs or schools. The acceptance rate will automatically be lowered for the next year considering that the same volume of applicants will almost definitely apply since Drexel is the most popular feeder school anyway, and no students will be interview or accepted from Lehigh or Rosemont.