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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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 [/quote]

Curious why are you involved, they are an adult? No one helped us years ago, no one helped my premed and their friends who got in without help other than the school's advisors/faculty. It really has not changed dramatically since 1997, in fact now the requirements are all listed in detail, the "encouraged" experiences (clinical/shadowing, science research) are now required so it is less nebulous and less reliant on having excellent premed advising to explain the "suggestions" are mandatory.[/quote]
You are out of touch. The requirements and expecatations are much higher than in 1997. [/quote]

DP the listed requirements are more but what we were advised to do back then was about the same. At my undergrad all of us did research for at least 3-4 semesters, the premed campus groups had clinical hours designed for premeds that we did during the semester, &many of us were EMTs. This school had an 80% acceptance rate then and 88% now, T15 private with a med school on campus.

My wife is a physician as well as are many of our adult friends. We all had hundreds of hours of volunteer time. The national acceptance rate was 34% the year we applied, lower than the recent 39-42. Our school had a committee meeting that you had to "pass" to get a letter to be "approved" to apply. They are not as harsh now, though my undergrad has many more 99%ile types now, so they probably do not have to discourage as many. It really is not that much harder, comparing my undergrad to the same undergrad and to my kid's current ivy.

The premeds I advise as part of shadowing in my hospital are not doing any more than my cohort did. One repeated mistake I see is not challenging themselves with courses when they can: they take the minimum requirements, not realizing their successful peers take more upper level sciences and take all stem at the home school rather than at an easier university or CC down the road. Med schools can spot someone phoning it in/doing the minimum from far away, and the T25 med programs particularly frown on it. That was also true years ago, and the committee did not mince words when they explained what was expected. 
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