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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do your reseaerch as some US colleges do this.  Brown University has PLME (8 year automatic admission to its medical school).  I think Penn State and Thomas Jefferson Medical School still has this too (7 years for undergrad/MD degrees).

There are others...of course you have to keep up the minimum GPA etc.
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I knew several kids in the Brown program. Half were deeply unhappy in med school/as doctors. Others thrived. When you ask kids to make huge career defining decisions as teens, a substantial number will have regrets. [/quote]

That’s true of most careers-lots of people have regrets whether they choose at age 18 or at age 22.

No one is forcing these kids to enroll in a guaranteed MD program and indeed few do.  I know several doctors who went the Brown program too and they were happy to have med school settled while others stressed out over their grad school plans.  But these are stellar students who would have been accepted to medical schools anywhere, if they hadn’t committed to the PLME.    [/quote]

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