S/o med school application process

[Anonymous]

I listen to a Chicago radio station via their app. Everyday, I hear a commercial for Arizona State Online School and a “student” explains she is currently in med school and all her online classes online, how the schedule worked for her, etc. As the parent of an attending physician (he is currently 34), I remember my DS going thru the process of applying to med school. Át that time, community college credits were not accepted for the required courses. Have the times simply changed or is this false advertising?

[Anonymous]

For profit school maybe? How do they do anatomy class online?

[Anonymous]

OP here. I was wondering how a class with a lab requirement could be accomplished? I don’t want to sound naive, but this blatant deception is disappointing.

[Anonymous]

Are you asking if med school classes are online? I just finished the med school application process with my child. It’s worse in many ways than the undergrad process

[Anonymous]

ASU isn’t a community college. It’s one of the three major Arizona universities. It does lk like they have a purely online premed Bio major. Here’s a Reddit thread discussing it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ASUOnline/comments/zm7z0i/med_school/
I don’t know how they do the labs but during Covid a lot of labs were being form virtually online so I guess there’s a way to do it, although I wouldn’t imagine the experience is the same. My guess is that most kids doing it do the non lab classes online but transfer to the regular school in Tempe to do the important labs. Or do a combo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you asking if med school classes are online? I just finished the med school application process with my child. It’s worse in many ways than the undergrad process

much worse

[Anonymous]

OP here. I did not mean online med school. I meant 100% online undergrad. Since you have a current applicant to med school, is there a stipulation that the required courses must be at a typical brick and mortar school vs an online school? When my DS applied to med school, he couldn't take an Organic Chem class at a community college.

[Anonymous]

Scientist/doctor household here. Preposterous! How can you get the required lab experience online? I would look askance at any med school that accepts kids who have not done hands-on labs with actual TAs/profs looking at what they're doing. I've heard of virtual AP Bio courses that send you the experiment to do at home, but for undergrad experiments, it's not the same thing: first, there are some experiments you can't do at home, and second, there are experiments for which the student really benefits from having the instructor right there next to them, poring at the same test tube or dissection, and guiding their movements.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you asking if med school classes are online? I just finished the med school application process with my child. It’s worse in many ways than the undergrad process

Good luck. My kid just graduated and started residency program. Wild ride ahead for your kiddo.

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Anonymous wrote:Are you asking if med school classes are online? I just finished the med school application process with my child. It’s worse in many ways than the undergrad process

I only have kids in high school, and at least one is considering the pre-med track. Can you explain how the med school application process is more difficult? Is it because med schools are more selective so your child applied to more med schools than colleges?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you asking if med school classes are online? I just finished the med school application process with my child. It’s worse in many ways than the undergrad process

I 100% do not mean this to be rude, but what do you mean by *you* just finished the application process (with your child)? What are you doing to help with the med school application?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are you asking if med school classes are online? I just finished the med school application process with my child. It’s worse in many ways than the undergrad process

I only have kids in high school, and at least one is considering the pre-med track. Can you explain how the med school application process is more difficult? Is it because med schools are more selective so your child applied to more med schools than colleges?

DP. I don't know all the ins and outs bc DC has been doing the apps, not me. It's a multilayered process, though. It seems that there's a preliminary application, then a secondary application, if you make that cut, then an interview, if you make that cut. In addition to high GPA, high science GPA, and high MCAT score, you're supposed to have job shadowing, research, work experience, volunteering...probably a lot more that I'm forgetting.

[Anonymous]

Im going to be weigh in on the other side here-i went to a top 10 med school and although of course all my labs were in person because I am old it would not have mattered one bit if they hadn’t been.

Top test scores and grades (in addition to appropriate extracurriculars) were important to doing well in med school but the ability to pipette and operate a Bunsen burner? nothing you couldn’t learn in literally one afternoon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I did not mean online med school. I meant 100% online undergrad. Since you have a current applicant to med school, is there a stipulation that the required courses must be at a typical brick and mortar school vs an online school? When my DS applied to med school, he couldn't take an Organic Chem class at a community college.

Online school does not = community college. If they're running an ad with a student who got into medical school, I'm assuming they can produce receipts showing it's true. Otherwise, as you said, it would be deceptive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: I listen to a Chicago radio station via their app. Everyday, I hear a commercial for Arizona State Online School and a “student” explains she is currently in med school and all her online classes online, how the schedule worked for her, etc. As the parent of an attending physician (he is currently 34), I remember my DS going thru the process of applying to med school. Át that time, community college credits were not accepted for the required courses. Have the times simply changed or is this false advertising?

Many nursing students often claim to be in med school.