My kid's medical school had bunch of postbacc kids. One was working as a Chef and other odd jobs then decided to pursue medicine.

Anonymous wrote:What is the undergrad major?

What is the purpose of the post-bacc? Take entire gambit premed required classes, starting with gen bio, gen chem, orgo, biochem, math, stats, pysch, social science, writing? Or is it to rehabilitate some of the undergrad grades?

Either!
There are students who did not take premed requirements at all (change of career types) and there are remediation ones to use to replace a lower than ideal undergrad gpa for folks who took most or all premed requirements. Research them in detail. Google is your friend.

Anonymous wrote:What is the undergrad major?

What is the purpose of the post-bacc? Take entire gambit premed required classes, starting with gen bio, gen chem, orgo, biochem, math, stats, pysch, social science, writing? Or is it to rehabilitate some of the undergrad grades?

There may be some grade rehab programs out there but in general it’s two semesters of general chem in the summer followed by 2 semesters of bio, physics, Orgo (and some type of volunteer or lab experience.) mcat is taken in the spring.

What is the undergrad major?

What is the purpose of the post-bacc? Take entire gambit premed required classes, starting with gen bio, gen chem, orgo, biochem, math, stats, pysch, social science, writing? Or is it to rehabilitate some of the undergrad grades?

I did a post bac and I have one child who is contemplating pursuing medicine and I have told them post back is a great way to do it. I have no idea how competitive the programs are now.

The biggest downside is that it’s compressed-all pre med classes and then mcats taken in the space of 12 months. not everyone is up for that, no question. (especially taking the mcat part in the spring- it’s a tight turn around to come from no science background to doing well on the mcat in less than a year. ) the other downside is there’s a built in gap year since they aren’t able to apply til the fall after finishing.

Has anybody had their kid do this instead of the traditional route into medical school (pre-med classes and then apply to med school after taking MCAT). Wondered about pros and cons of this route. How competitive are the Postbacc programs to get into?