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post bacc pre med program - zadaea - 11-19-2023
Hey all, I graduated from WGU with a CS degree. With a lot of transfer credits from sophia+study.com. Including calculus and my science courses. I'm in the US.
I pursued the degree just cause I didn't have one, I've been self-employed working for myself as a dev for a decade. I'm really interested in mixing CS with health care/medicine or simply changing up my career entirely if I'm able to get in to a school and see where it takes me. It seems like a computational neuroscience post-bacc is my best option, which would also let me get into medical school.
Does anyone have advice on options for my scenario? I've only started researching this recently and have been reading a lot of threads about med school here on degreeforum. The schools in my state only have like a 2% acceptance rate though compared to the sheer amount of applications.
I could do the transfer credits from somewhere like Portage learning or SNHU? But then my WGU degree is only a 3.0 GPA. So I assume I need to do a post-bacc. Just wondering if anyone has info besides what I found in MSK9's threads.
RE: post bacc pre med program - davewill - 11-19-2023
I don't know that the post-bacc buys you anything. The med school is going to compute a GPA based on all of your transcripts. It's not like doing a post-bacc will cause them to ignore your WGU transcript.
RE: post bacc pre med program - indigoshuffle - 11-20-2023
(11-19-2023, 08:56 PM)zadaea Wrote: Hey all, I graduated from WGU with a CS degree. With a lot of transfer credits from sophia+study.com. Including calculus and my science courses. I'm in the US.UNE and Doane are widely accepted by many medical schools that accept online sciences. Even Harvard med school accepts online sciences and they have some pretty good classes as well. The UC system has online sciences also. I would stay away from Portage Learning unless you specifically called the school, and it is documented in an email or letter from a dean or an admissions person that they will accept the credit. And if they say they do, I would CYA and CC everyone, including the dean of the school, the email stating that they will accept the credit.
I pursued the degree just cause I didn't have one, I've been self-employed working for myself as a dev for a decade. I'm really interested in mixing CS with health care/medicine or simply changing up my career entirely if I'm able to get in to a school and see where it takes me. It seems like a computational neuroscience post-bacc is my best option, which would also let me get into medical school.
Does anyone have advice on options for my scenario? I've only started researching this recently and have been reading a lot of threads about med school here on degreeforum. The schools in my state only have like a 2% acceptance rate though compared to the sheer amount of applications.
I could do the transfer credits from somewhere like Portage learning or SNHU? But then my WGU degree is only a 3.0 GPA. So I assume I need to do a post-bacc. Just wondering if anyone has info besides what I found in MSK9's threads.
Even some Caribbean schools will not take portage learning; so be careful with that. Thomas Edison school of nursing will not take Portage Learning either. Interestingly tho, they take SL and I was told they prefer it to many community college sciences... go figure. So, lesson here, is call the schools you're interested in.
The "University" of medicine and health sciences is one Caribbean school that I personally called and have been told that they WILL take portage learning.
You don't necessarily need to attend a "post bacc" program, though it might help. You just need your sciences, a bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited university, clinical experience working with patients and reasonable MCAT score. There are books that cover all this, I'm sure you know and have probably read a few.
Also, I would say, consider the military. They'll pay for everything, and they take online classes, as long as they're RA credits. The military will not accept portage learning. Not for medicine, not for nursing, not podiatry, not for any of their medical or allied health schools because the class are conducted via a third party. They didn't like that at all.
RE: post bacc pre med program - bjcheung77 - 11-20-2023
@zadaea, basically you need to do the post bac year of sciences... just like MSK9, you need all the prerequisite science classes completed and have a good GPA on each and everyone of those to bump up your application package as a whole. It doesn't have to come from these online options mentioned, it could come from the cheaper community college offerings that are available online, do a search for requirements and complete them...